Mach preview 07-11 April
MACH 2014
2014 is the first year there has been a
dedicated logistics section at MACH – the ‘Logistics for Manufacturing Zone’. In this preview, we take a look at the companies exhibiting within this dedicated area, and a few others we think are relevant to your business.
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here is a buzz around manufacturing which hasn’t been felt for a long time. MACH 2014 is likely to fuel this further. The event has over 150 more exhibitors than it did in 2012, a year which played host to 21,500 visitors. Hopes are high that MACH 2014 will eclipse that number. Logistics professionals are likely to boost these figures, due to the ‘Logistics for Manufacturing Zone’; an area dedicated to materials handling and storage systems. Suppliers of access equipment, carousels, conveyers, cranes and lifting gear, forklift trucks and accessories, loading bay equipment, packaging and pallets are all taking their place in the MACH halls. “We’re going to see something like 6,500 tonnes of machinery at the show,” says Graham Dewhurst, director general of the Manufacturing Technologies Association (MTA), which owns and runs MACH. “And of course MACH is unique in the UK in that it is a working show, meaning that those 6,500 tonnes will be under power.”
24 March 2014 SENSE OF SCOPE
It’s not just the size that sets MACH 2014 apart. The show is cutting new ground. For the first time major OEMs, including Airbus and Rolls Royce, are exhibiting alongside their supply chain partners, enabling visitors to get a sense of the scope of the UK’s manufacturing sector.
LLOYDS COMMITS
One thing that is constant from 2012 is the partnership between MACH and Lloyds Bank. Richard Holden, head of manufacturing at Lloyds Bank Commercial Banking, said: “MACH 2014 presents a fantastic opportunity for the industry to share the latest advances in technology and design that will help manufacturers to further develop and grow.” Richard also explains why Lloyds is so committed to the supply chain: “It’s important that we support trading businesses, to rebalance our own books. We spoke to manufacturers, and they told us that banks ‘do not support or understand the supply
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chain’ – we took that on board. We have spent the last two and a half years training key staff to become manufacturing managers for Lloyds Bank, through Warwick University. Manufacturing is an important part of the bank’s strategy in terms of supporting UK businesses. “The sector continues to play a fundamental role in the UK’s economic resurgence and we are committed to supporting manufacturing businesses. We also recently launched the £1million Lloyds Advanced Manufacturing Training Centre in Coventry to help develop over 1,000 apprentices and trainees, and we are proud to be showing our support for the industry once again by sponsoring MACH 2014.”
EDUCATION AND TRAINING ZONE
The Education and Training Zone is now a key part of what the exhibition is about. There will be inspiration from the Bloodhound SSC project, competition from the Worldskills UK heats and state of the art interactivity from the AMRC’s MANTRA and VirtUweld simulators.
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