Welding Institute starts £43m expansion in Cambridge
Universities and Science Minister David Willetts was among the guests at a ceremony to mark the building of a multimillion-pound technology centre in Cambridge.
The Welding Institute specialises in high-tech welding processes and has 500 staff in the city.
A new £43m centre, part-funded by the government's Regional Growth Fund, is being created to train postgraduate students.
BBC Look East's Richard Bond reports.