Ethna McNamee, Western Regional Manager at Invest NI, said: \u201cThe Mid Ulster area is home to a strong business base of SMEs in advanced manufacturing, engineering and agri-food. These ambitious companies are investing in projects to increase production capacity, reach new export markets and become more productive. This significant investment by local businesses will contribute to a resilient local economy and create more opportunities for local people.<\/p>\n
\u201cRegional balance is one of our strategic priorities and we want to see businesses of all sizes prosper. We are working closely with stakeholders such as Mid Ulster District Council, our further education colleges and local enterprise agencies as part of our work to drive the economy in this area.\u201d \u00a0<\/p>\n
Invest NI offered support towards 283 growth projects in Mid Ulster in 2024-25. This included 67 businesses investing in green initiatives to boost energy efficiency and reduce carbon emissions. 20 businesses were also assisted to begin exporting. \u00a0<\/p>\n
FCC Fabrications in Dungannon, which manufactures a range of bespoke steel cabins and enclosures, is one business growing its exports. Managing Director, Conor McVeigh, said: \u201cInvest NI has supported us to grow sales of our bespoke units in the Republic of Ireland and Great Britain, and to increase our capacity by recruiting more fabricators to our team. We\u2019re now focusing on marketing our products, so we are appointing a Business Development Manager to help us increase our online presence and continue to grow sales in existing markets.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ethna McNamee, Western Regional Manager at Invest NI, said: \u201cThe Mid Ulster area is home to a strong…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":340837,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[1144,16,15,54710],"class_list":{"0":"post-340836","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-northern-ireland","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom","11":"tag-western-regional-office"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115020851048465283","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340836\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/340837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}