Industries and Trades in the Swansea valley
The Top Pops is a modern factory located in Ystradgynlais at the Ynyscedwyn Industrial Estate. This industry develops and manufactures several soft drinks for the wholesale market.
Streetmaster products produces several durable materials like litter bins, picnic furniture and public seating. These products have to be designed as per the specifications given by architects, public utilities and councils. There are special demands regarding these products.
Computers are repaired and recycled at Trojan Electronics Ltd. In this company, there is electronic assembly of conventional and surface mounted printed circuits. There are also testing services for these circuits.
Hi-tech Assemblies Ltd is an industry that designs and manufactures gaming machines. These are then exported throughout the world. The company provides contract manufacturing to other companies on the basis of their expertise in harness and cable assembly.
In Pontardawe, there is a factory called PSM Canning Brett. This produces fasteners for the engineering and automobile industries. This factory is a part of the international McKechnie Group PLC.
The store of CME Plant Hire has an entire range of farm supplies, pet supplies, DIY products and tools. This company rents several types of vehicles, plant and tools. They are the main service and sales agents for De-Walt Power Tools.
Automobile instruments and cables are manufactured, repaired and calibrated at Speedy Cables Ltd. This company supplies solutions to a wide range of customer needs like old classics or custom cars or regular production models.
Wiring harnesses for the automobile industry are designed and produced at the Sumitomo Electric Wiring Systems (Europe) Ltd. This group has several production plants spread in Europe. Technical services to these plants are offered by Ystradgynlais Engineering and Design facility.
Danone specializes in food products. It is an international group of companies. They have produced bottled waters Volvic and Evian which became prominent brand names. Now, this company is capturing the good spring water in the Upper Swansea valley. This bottled product is called Danone Actif. This is a calcium rich mineral water.
The instrument panels and gauges for vehicles are designed and manufactured at Caerbont Automotive Instruments. This company has the license to produce the authentic “Smiths Instruments” replacement spares and gauges. Gauges are also manufactured as per the individual customer’s designs.
A gamut of products for the pharmaceutical and medical markets are manufactured, supplied and supported by DTR medical. The products comprise of single use sterile surgical devices like instrument cleaning solutions, surgical slings, drapes, instrument protectors, silicone tubing and suction handles.
Pharmaceutical clean room contamination control products are developed and manufactured by Shield Medicare. These are distributed worldwide. The production unit is situated at Ystradgynlais. This has state of the art clean room facilities so that good quality products are ensured.
A gamut of motorcycle maintenance products like chemical solutions, aerosols cleaning agents, oil and fuel additives are supplied by MMP online.
Some of the prominent and current industries and trades in the Swansea valley are introduced above. Excluding these, there are several factories in the Swansea valley that aid in the running of these industries.