General Industrial News – Early July 2025
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Dan Brooks, Institute Director at the Advanced Machinery and Productivity Institute (AMPI) gives his perspective on the current state of the machinery sector and the opportunity to realise the UK’s potential…
More than 40 years ago my dad embarked on a career in engineering, as my Grandad and Great Grandad had before him. He undertook an apprenticeship as a machine tool fitter working for a British machinery builder, on British built machines, for end users all around the world.
40 years later he now works for a Tier 1 supplier to the automotive industry and works entirely on machines designed and built outside the UK. I can’t help asking myself what happened? Where has the UK expertise gone? And how we can rebuild? https://www.themanufacturer.com/articles/a-sovereign-machinery-supply-chain-is-critical-to-the-uks-industrial-future/?utm_campaign=5698929-Digital%20Briefing%202025&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8-hJoR-ApMW0S2V0IZ8oz_Af6s1dhKhP_GHQVFu3r9GK1gEMohmZ0dT3cnM0tkW3wRSiQd
