This week we celebrate National Apprenticeship week at Brethertons. We have had many Apprentices join and develop with us over the years, including myself! We are proud of the investment we make in our Apprentices from starting out on their career journey to...
At the April meeting we were joined by Steve Statham of the Manufacturing Technology Centre (MTC). Steve gave an excellent presentation on what the MTC has achieved to date and where the future of British Manufacturing may be headed.
Steve is an accomplished business consultant with over 15 years experience in innovation and R&D related activities. Steve has worked on behalf of a broad range of organisations in a number of sectors including: regional and national government departments/agencies; telecoms; rail; IT and transport, as well as a large number of businesses in the SME sector.
For the past five years Steve has been the Business Development Manager at the MTC. MTC provides a unique environment bringing the country’s leading academics, engineers and industry professionals together to develop and demonstrate new technologies on an industrial scale. The MTC specialises in a range of manufacturing technologies and processes that are particularly important to the high value manufacturing sector: Intelligent Automation, Advanced Tooling and Fixturing, Electronics Manufacturing, High Integrity Fabrication, Manufacturing Simulation and Informatics, Metrology and NDT and Net Shape and Additive Manufacturing.