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Better representation and ensuring a level playing field

Aims and Objectives

To achieve many of the industry’s other visions, it needs to achieve better representation and to ensure a level playing field. The UK Metals Council, led by senior industry figures, should help achieve this while delivering the sector's strategic approach and ensuring it leads to a sustainable, growth-led future for the industry. The Council should also improve the way the industry communicates its key messages, allowing it to speak with authority to government, other sectors and educators.:

  • To gain CEO-level commitment and engagement with the Industry's new strategic approach.
  • To enable the Metals Council to drive the new strategic approach forward.
  • To work with the government to ensure that taxation, regulation and the UK’s energy and carbon policy framework supports long-term economic sustainability.

To support the development of a sustainable circular economy, commitments sought from policymakers may include:

  • Ministerial-level commitment and engagement with the UK Metals Industry's new strategic approach.
  • Using the UK Metals Council as a core consultative body and offer occasional ministerial presence at enhanced meetings of the Metals Council.
  • Ensuring a fair and fit-for-purpose taxation and regulatory landscape that reflects the particular characteristics of the UK Metals Industry.

Having established the Metals Council in 2015, the industry needs to track objective measures of international competitiveness for key parts of the metals industry.

News

15/03/23 - UK Metals Expo: 13-14th Sept 2023, NEC Birmingham
The ONLY event that brings the entire metals supply chain together with the engineering and manufacturing sector.
From primary metal manufacture to supply chain management, processing metals including casting and forging, metal fabrication, machinery, engineering, surface coatings and metals recycling, this is the show for the UK Metals Sector.

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09/09/22 - Eade becomes the UK Metals Council’s first female Chair
One of manufacturing’s leading champions and business support professionals has been appointed as the new Chair of the UK Metals Council (UKMC).

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19/07/22 - Stellar Speaker Line-up Announced for the New UK Metals Expo organised in Partnership with the UK Metals Council.
UK Metals Council is the proud partner of UK Metals Expo, the NEW free to attend event that brings the entire metals supply chain together with the engineering and manufacturing sector on 14 and 15 September at the NEC in Birmingham.

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