3MBIC showcase Innovation Avenue at Breakfast event

By 3M Buckley Innovation Centre
schedule23rd May 16

Made in Yorkshire’s latest Breakfast Networking event took place on 28th April at 3M Buckley Innovation Centre, Huddersfield to mark our third event of the year within the Yorkshire region.

Silver members, 3MBIC house start-ups, SMEs, and large corporates and lends itself to dynamic interactions which promote supply chain and demand led innovation. New ideas and collaborations between academia and industry are supported through Innovation Avenue with its specialist equipment and resources.

Suzanne Bagworth, Business Development, Marketing and Events Officer of 3MBIC was delighted with the success of the event, as she stated: “It's the first time we’ve done anything like this so we weren’t really sure what to expect. It was great to see everybody getting involved in the tours of Innovation Avenue as well. The fact that we were able to showcase what we do here, it’s just been brilliant for us, so it was a great success.”

Innovation Avenue provides access to leading edge high technology facilities and services with dedicated technical support. The facilities are designed to benefit businesses in many different sectors, which includes engineering, product design and chemicals. 3MBIC also house an advanced manufacturing laboratory, which offer the precise measurement and characterisation of manufactured objects and the investigation of the manufacturing process.

Made in Yorkshire Breakfast Networking events are designed to provide our members with a great opportunity to meet manufacturing companies within the Yorkshire region with a vested interest in exploring new business ventures. Suzanne added: “If you can get them to this platform, where they know they are going to meet potential new clients, suppliers, manufacturers and people they can collaborate with, it's so worth their while. You’ve got manufacturer's coming that are going to meet people that they need to be working with on a day to day basis.”

Additionally, Suzanne provided Made in Yorkshire members with brilliant advice on how to best utilize these events to benefit your business, as she said: “I’d say (host one) to show off what you have got, you might not think it's what people want to see, but you don’t know that until you actually show it off. Just encourage everybody to talk to each other and talk to as many people as you can because you don’t know how they may need your help or who you can potentially introduce them too.”

Please visit our Events page to ensure that you don’t miss any of our upcoming Breakfast Networking Events. If you are interested in hosting a breakfast event of your own, please contact our Group Events Manager Iwona at: iwona@firstorchard.com