Welcome from our CEO

Cogent is working with industry, with schools, colleges, universities and training providers to develop a UK-wide skills strategy that will give students and existing employees the best opportunities to increase their knowledge and skills and apply them in satisfying and rewarding careers.

From extraction to everyday use

The Cogent industries form a strategically important sector. Our footprint covers over 19,000 employers and 850,000 people. The Cogent industries produce the energy for the UK's industries, for our transport systems and our homes. They produce hundreds of essentials for our daily lives, from petroleum and plastics through to rubber, synthetic fibres for our clothing and crucial chemical additives and pharmaceuticals.

The challenge to be green, clean and lean

Cogent industries face considerable challenge from global competition and the requirement to be safe, clean and green and sustainable, and the need to produce new and better products. All of our industries are underpinned by science, technology and engineering and these are areas in which the UK has always excelled.

What will a new generation discover and develop?

There is a constant demand for thousands of people to become the next generation of scientists, engineers and production operatives, supervisors, designers, managers, technicians and industry leaders. Cogent is working with industry, with schools, colleges, universities and training providers to develop a UK-wide skills strategy that will give students and existing employees the best opportunities to increase their knowledge and skills and apply them in satisfying and rewarding careers.

Joanna Woolf,
Chief Executive