Manufacturing impact calculator
Built in Manchester, then licensed outward
Every bench is assembled in Greater Manchester from reclaimed panels, reclaimed steel, Christmas-tree timber and hemp composite. Move the output slider and the jobs, PAYE, National Insurance, business rates and UK GVA below all recompute, each rate labelled and its basis stated.
Direct jobs
Estimated0.0
2,500 sqm of Manchester floor space
Direct + indirect jobs
Estimated0.0
1.60x employment multiplier
Tax contribution / yr
Estimated£959,825
PAYE, NI, corporation tax, net VAT and business rates
UK GVA / yr
Estimated£0
£0 direct, uplifted by supply-chain activity
Why the civic case matters as much as the margin
Greater Manchester runs ten boroughs through one combined authority with a trailblazer devolution settlement, so place-based kit can be specified once and rolled out across the city region. With business rates for pubs, social clubs and live music venues cut by 20% from April on top of January's 15%, the high street is being handed lower fixed costs and is looking for anything that adds trading hours without adding a supply connection. The numbers above are what a buyer scores under social value: local headcount, local wage spend, rates paid in the city region and GVA created here rather than imported.
The Manchester chapter, history and politicsManufacturing route
Pilot arch → Manchester line → EU assembly → licensed global
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Process flow
Minutes per bench and how much of each step stays local
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Total touch time is 0.0 hours per bench, which is the number that drives the headcount model below. At 1,800 benches a year that is 0.0 full-time production equivalents before quality, logistics and overhead roles.
Grade, test, re-certify
Panels arrive from domestic re-roofs, are flash-tested and graded, then become canopies, the first station on the Manchester line and the first job on it.
Jobs we can fill
Headcount scales with output; salaries and skill routes are named
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Annual payroll
Estimated£0
Direct employment only
Average salary
Estimated£0
Weighted across the role mix
Entry-level share
Estimated0%
Roles reachable with no prior trade
Pathways: welding and wood machining apprenticeships with Greater Manchester colleges, a six-week in-house electronics programme, and paid pre-employment placements for prison-leavers and 18-24s, the assembly line is deliberately designed so someone with no trade can start on day one. Social value is scored against the Greater Manchester TOMs framework, with 42% of bought-in spend targeted inside the city region.
Tax and public revenue
At the output you selected above
- Line
- Income tax (PAYE)
- Per year
- £0
- Confidence
- Estimated
- Line
- Employee National Insurance
- Per year
- £0
- Confidence
- Estimated
- Line
- Employer National Insurance
- Per year
- £0
- Confidence
- Estimated
- Line
- Corporation tax
- Per year
- £542,025
- Confidence
- Estimated
- Line
- Net VAT contribution
- Per year
- £262,800
- Confidence
- Assumed
- Line
- Business rates
- Per year
- £155,000
- Confidence
- Estimated
To the UK Exchequer
Estimated£804,825
Payroll taxes, corporation tax and net VAT
Retained in Greater Manchester
Assumed£1,755,452
Business rates plus local supply-chain and wage spend
Tax per bench
Estimated£533
Public revenue generated by each bench built here
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Greater Manchester first
Rates, wages and supply-chain spend land in the city region; PAYE, National Insurance and corporation tax land with the Exchequer. Both scale with the slider above.
Scale ladder: UK, EU and global
Secondary phase moves assembly into the EU, R&D stays in Manchester
- Market served
- Greater Manchester and North West
- Benches/yr
- 180
- Direct jobs
- 0.0
- Total jobs
- 0.0
- Revenue
- £657,000
- GVA
- £0
- Tax
- £80,483
- Market served
- United Kingdom
- Benches/yr
- 1,800
- Direct jobs
- 0.0
- Total jobs
- 0.0
- Revenue
- £6,570,000
- GVA
- £0
- Tax
- £804,825
- Market served
- UK + EU (assembly in-region)
- Benches/yr
- 4,000
- Direct jobs
- 0.0
- Total jobs
- 0.0
- Revenue
- £14,600,000
- GVA
- £0
- Tax
- £1,788,500
- Market served
- UK, EU, North America, Gulf, Australia
- Benches/yr
- 9,000
- Direct jobs
- 0.0
- Total jobs
- 0.0
- Revenue
- £32,850,000
- GVA
- £0
- Tax
- £4,024,125
Bars show total jobs (solar) and GVA in £000s (timber). In the EU secondary phase the continental site does frame assembly and finishing while Manchester keeps design, electronics, PV grading and hemp-pellet compounding, so UK GVA per bench falls but total UK GVA rises, because volume roughly doubles and every kit carries a UK margin and licence fee.
Specified manufacturing parameters
Tooling capex, tool life and the amortisation carried into unit cost.
- Value in use
- 148,000 GBP: seat profile die 46k, back and arm mould 38k, canopy shell 41k, fixings and jigs 23k. 40,000 shots per year rated, 1.2 million shot tool life.
- Method
- Indicative UK moulder pricing for tool size and cavitation at the modelled volume, amortised over 24,000 benches at 6.17 GBP per bench.
- If it moves
- A 20 percent tooling overrun adds 1.23 GBP per bench at modelled volume and does not change the funding round size.