13th June 2022
Sky News visited the facility today, on the morning that it broke the story of a shock contraction of 0.3% for UK economy in April, with a COVID crisis anomaly accountable for the downward trend.
Sky News caught up with Sales Director Garry Myatt as they walked the production cells of a busy facility, filming for the 7pm segment (Monday 13 June 2022).
Garry’s position though was representative of the business’ position since even before the disruption and challenges of COVID – one of positivity and an example of the resilience that’s become such a crucial stalwart to that position.
We’re growing, and the order book is still strong. In manufacturing, automotive growth offset the April decline. The winding down of the test and trace scheme is the anomaly that pushed the UK economy into negative territory.
The supply problem though is ever-present, and no one is naïve to the challenges manufacturers face with the rising fuel and energy prices stoking the cost in living crisis.
As was well-publicised last week with CEO Tony Hague’s feature piece for the UK Manufacturing Outlook 2022 and his participation in ManufacturingTV’s latest debate, there is however, a window of opportunity for UK manufacturing that may never present itself again in our lifetime…
“Now is the time to refocus and reinvest in sectors of UK manufacturing and associated service sectors that we previously raced to offshore.”
Now is the time for Government to act.
Watch Garry’s Sky News appearance at 7pm and also catch up with Tony’s contributions to the UKMO and ManufacturingTV debate.
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