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CENFRA LENDS A HELPING HAND TO SMALL BUSINESSES
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June
2009
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CenFRA Ltd, Europe's only centre for food robotics and automation, is helping small businesses tackle the credit crunch with a campaign designed to support them in maximising productivity and profits to ensure their future sustainability.
Small businesses are finding it difficult to beat the recession but CenFRA is confident that its impartial, quality advice can kick start the innovative thinking required to enable them emerge from the downturn stronger than before.
To help stimulate ideas, whilst highlighting the positive impact innovative automation solutions can have for smaller food and drink companies, CenFRA is offering businesses in the Northern Way free technology audits, while there is only a modest charge made for this same service to those operations located beyond this region.
The company is also able to provide the knowledge required for a bespoke technology roadmap for the future, which identifies opportunities where automation can improve a company's productivity and competitiveness.
By engaging with CenFRA, SMEs can tap into the company's ability to organise, as well as host, seminars, training days, and best practice updates. It can provide expertise on the latest technologies, production processes and methods related to automation and directly applicable to the food and drink manufacturing sector.
In a recent news release from the Federation of Small Businesses, the national chairman, John Wright commented: "Small businesses are the lifeblood of our economy and this is a hugely difficult and testing year for them. We all want the storm of recession to end and small businesses are the sector to fire up the British economy."
"We have already seen some measures to help small businesses through these difficult times but we need to see more."
CenFRA's solutions can help small businesses fight back against the recession. The company has its own team of qualified engineers who provide advice, undertake audits and, if required, help food and beverage companies with any automation changes.
Small businesses engaging with CenFRA, which is an organisation totally independent of robotic manufacturers, integrators and auxiliary equipment suppliers, will also learn about any available grants and the leading academic institutions CenFRA is able to call on to further assist them if required.
CenFRA launched its state-of-the-art site in Doncaster in May 2008 and has a combined investment of almost £3million. Yorkshire Forward is the principal funding agency with some additional support from the North West and North East development agencies, known collectively as the Northern Way.
For further information please visit the CenFRA website at www.cenfra.co.uk |
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