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News Release from: Smithers Rapra
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 05 December 2005
Rapra eyes European expansion
Encouraged by recent successes, Rapra Technology is actively seeking further opportunities to develop and expand its regional support activities into mainland Europe.
Encouraged by the recent spectacular successes which the company has enjoyed in the European collaborative research arena, Rapra Technology is now actively seeking further opportunities to develop and expand its regional support activities into mainland Europe Rapra has already enjoyed some success with an agreement having been signed with the Spanish region of La Rioja, for Rapra to provide supported technical consultancy services to small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) in the region
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 4 Aug 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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Rapra and Aimplas are in advanced discussions regarding the inclusion of material from Rapra's online polymer library within this system.
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Richard Walton, Rapra's Marketing Services Manager is enthusiastic about expanding the working partnership with Aimplas.
"We have worked together really well in developing large European research projects over the last 2 years and I expect our collaborative activities to grow further in the next couple of years".
Walton has also spent 10 days in Poland last month, his third visit to the country in 2005.
He says: "We are making good headway now, with the likelihood of a training project going forward in the Lower Silesia region early next year and also with a memorandum of understanding being prepared between ourselves and a local partner organisation".
"We have again been able to build on established relationships with organisations in the research field in Poland".
Walton expects to be in Poland again in 2006 to finalise these opportunities and to explore other emerging opportunities, possibly driven by the close relationship which is developing between Lower Silesia and the West Midlands region of the UK.
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