Southwest Composites Gateway

south west composites gateway is a new project designed to help small to medium-sized businesses in developing specialist technology innovation and advanced engineering in composite materials. the gateway will build the capacity of further education colleges to provide services to businesses in the aerospace, automotive, marine and renewable energy sectors, as well as a number of emerging advanced engineering industries. the composites industry is expected to grow by approximately 50% over the next five years, while the value of the future uk composites market is estimated to be £20billion by 2013. this growth is expected to come in aerospace, automotive and renewable energy, along with other advanced manufacturing industries. set up in april 2010 and running until december 2012, the south west composites gateway is an erdf/rda backed, £560,000 programme. city of bristol college is the grant recipient and lead provider of this exciting initiative that will help boost the income of engi