Innovations in trade exhibited at TUS event in Limerick

MAYOR of Limerick John Moran was among more than 1,000 people who attended Ireland's largest collaborative manufacturing event between Ireland and the UK.

The event at TUS on their Coonagh campus was organised by the UK manufacturing supply chain trade association and it included exhibits from 90 representatives from Ireland and the UK.

GTMA manager David Beattie said: “The strong working relationship between the GTMA and TUS has resulted in an event that began as a conduit for opening up new possibilities within the supply chain to customers and suppliers, to becoming an annual event that is advancing stronger trading relationships between Ireland and the UK. The GTMA is delighted to bring our members to Limerick every year for this event, and it has now become one of the main events on our members calendars.”

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President of TUS, Vincent Cunnane said while welcoming people to the campus: "The first phase of the Coonagh campus is designed to drive the expansion of engineering education and research, providing new workshops and laboratories for students, apprentices and researchers.

“Hosting Manufacturing Solutions Ireland 2024 in this 5,819 square metre building in Coonagh underscores TUS’s strong connection with industry and the local economy. It is fitting then, that an event like Manufacturing Solutions, built on the strong working relationship of almost a decade between TUS and the GTMA and supported by the Precision Turned Parts Manufacturers Association of Ireland (PTMA) should be one of the first major events to be held on our new campus."

The event also included sixty student presentations of their research and innovations.