Advanced manufacturing is key to industrial strategy, plus Blair and Hague back robots
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Most UK manufacturers (70%) believe that a long-term industrial strategy for the nation could lead to a surge in offshore manufacturing being brought back to the UK, according to a new survey published by Make UK and RSM UK. Just 3% say such a strategy would make no difference to the likelihood of re-shoring, with a mere 1% of them saying it would make no difference to their businesses. The survey, which was carried out before the Government’s recent announcement of an industrial strategy Green Paper, also suggests that half of UK manufacturers would increase investment in their UK facilities in response to a new strategy, 30% would adopt more automation, 29% would boost exports to the EU, while 26% would raise their R&D budgets. Make UK estimates that if manufacturing’s contribution to GDP were to rise to 15%, it would add ￡142bn to the economy. These figures are impressive, but whether they become a reality depends on the details of the new strategy.
The UK government has identified advanced manufacturing as one of eight key sectors that its industrial strategy – the first new one for seven years – will focus on in…
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