For more information on being an exhibitor please email us on conference@makeuk.org.
Accu is the new kind of component company.
By leveraging our industry-leading e-commerce platform, engineers, innovators, trailblazers and those driving change can take advantage of immediate online access to a vast inventory of over 500,000 precision-engineered components. With 85,000 active customers, including more than half of the world’s top manufacturing giants, we’re committed to serving progress. We’ve quickly become the go-to supply chain partner for essential components that drive technological innovations, in sectors ranging from medical to transportation and robotics; impacting billions of people worldwide.
What sets us apart from our competitors? It’s not just our expansive stock, with clear online stock availability, but our dedication to meeting unique, challenging engineering demands. Our custom manufacture service empowers customers with components tailor-made to their specifications, delivered with the same commitment to speed and precision as our standard components. From prototyping to large-scale production, our specialist team works closely with customers to develop bespoke solutions, ensuring that even the most complex components fit seamlessly into your designs.
We blend cutting-edge technology with passionate people to deliver an award-winning experience to customers all over the globe. Our agile approach means we’re ready to adapt to the evolving needs of our customers, offering services like same-day dispatch and fast, accurate delivery across the world, helping to keep pace with the rapid cycle of innovation.
Forget the old way of buying components. Save time, work smarter and start Building Tomorrow – one component at a time.
Bridging the gap between sectors for the entire engineering and manufacturing supply chain
What to Expect at Advanced Engineering 2025
On 29-30 October 2025, the NEC Birmingham will once again be the epicentre of engineering and manufacturing innovation. With unparalleled networking opportunities, immersive displays, and transformative product launches, Advanced Engineering 2025 promises to inspire and empower professionals like never before.
Attendees will experience the latest technologies in person, gaining valuable insights and hands-on interaction. For exhibitors, it is an unmatched opportunity to showcase their innovations, create immediate connections, and drive meaningful engagement.
The event will also feature an exceptional line-up of speakers, with prominent industry and government figures addressing key topics such as policy, sustainability, digitalisation, and Net Zero.
This year’s edition will play a vital role in advancing the UK Government’s Industrial Strategy, by showcasing cutting-edge innovations and fostering collaborations that enhance the nation’s engineering and manufacturing capabilities.
The event brings together the UK’s leading SMEs that drive innovation in the manufacturing and engineering sectors. It aims to support and engage apprentices and the future engineers while amplifying industry efforts to address the skills gap through the #MINDTHEskillsGAP campaign. This aligns with Make UK’s mission to promote sustainable and resilient industrial growth across the country.
Inspired PLC is a leading B2B technology-based service provider supporting corporate businesses to control energy costs and enable their journey to net-zero.
To enable our clients to respond to the climate emergency, we focus on solving their toughest sustainability challenges. By managing data comprehensively, offering expert insight and providing advisory services to reduce carbon efficiently, we enable our clients to control costs effectively, make authentic environmental, social and governance (ESG) disclosures and achieve their net zero targets.
Our solutions create clear and actionable long-term plans, making investment easier to obtain and carbon reductions quicker to realise.
We currently serve over 3,800 UK and Irish organisations across the public, private and third sectors and what sets us aside from other energy and sustainability advisory partners is our expertise in data management. Our solutions are evidence-based and enable us to provide our clients with practical steps to make a real difference.
In November 2020, we were delighted to receive the London Stock Exchange Green Economy Mark, recognising the Group’s environmental and strategic advice, service and support to clients and the impact the business has on the green economy.
HETA, a non-profit Group Training Association established in 1967, is a leading provider of engineering apprenticeships as well as both standard and bespoke upskilling training courses, filling the crucial gap between industry and education. Accredited and industry-recognised, our courses, spanning from beginner to advanced levels, are conducted by highly experienced staff. Notably, HETA also offers higher education at level 4 and 5, catering to individuals seeking advanced qualifications.
HETA’s extensive track record spans over 50 years, now serving over 400 companies of all sizes and industries most notably within the manufacturing sector, reflecting our commitment to excellence.
In addition to delivering top-notch training, HETA’s state-of-the-art facilities that provide an environment conducive to skill development. Our sites are located at Hull, Scunthorpe and most notably Grimsby, where we have recently invested £5.5m to develop a purpose-built engineering training centre to tackle the skills gap in the local region. Our programmes, held in industry-standard workshops, simulate real-life and industrial working conditions, ensuring practical skills for the workforce. We are also able to offer training packages on-site due to our dedicated, nationwide instructor team.
Our specialist training includes maintenance, High Voltage, CompEx Ex01-04, competency qualifications and more.
To explore opportunities with HETA, please reach out to Charlotte Hogben at charlotte.hogben@heta.co.uk or 01482 372677
Make UK HR & Employment Law
At Make UK, we understand the ever-shifting complexity of HR and Employment Law and the pressures this can create for you and your business. With over 60 dedicated HR and Employment Law professionals at Make UK, we bring together the best expertise in HR Consultancy, Employment Law, and Training to support your business.
With a 95 % win-rate at Employment Tribunals, we’re rated as Excellent on Trustpilot and have a 95% retention rate.
Established since 1896, we have consistently supported our members to stay ahead of change. We will keep you informed and support you to make legally compliant and commercially sound decisions with confidence. Delivering the peace of mind, you and your business need.
Make UK Environment, Health & Safety
Designed by manufacturers for manufacturers, Make UK’s Environment, Health & Safety (EHS) team provide expert advice, training, and technology to help businesses reduce cost, mitigate risk, and increase productivity.
By partnering with Make UK you’ll benefit from our close relationships with the HSE, Government, and accreditation bodies, including NEBOSH, IOSH, and IEMA.
We work with a range of manufacturing businesses, from helping with culture change programmes, PUWER, and accreditation to ISO 45001, creating bespoke training, to rolling out company-wide eLearning. Our knowledge and experience will help increase business performance and improve the competency of EHS practitioners.
Make UK Defence is a national not-for-profit, member owned defence trade association, part of Make UK – the manufacturers’ organisation.
We champion and support the UK’s innovative and diverse defence manufacturers and the wider defence supply chain.
Guided by our member Advisory Board, our mission is simple:
Our 2024 policy goals focus on the following:
• SME spend transparency from prime contractors
• A more accessible defence industry
• 30 day MAX Prompt Payment Code
• UK prosperity + Intellectual Property
With the focus across Government and specifically the MOD on UK Prosperity, including social values and levelling up and a renewed focus on winning overseas defence exports, there has never been a better time to join Make UK Defence and maximise your chances of success.
Together, we are helping to build an innovative, forward looking, internationally competitive UK defence supply chain.
Make Venues is a collection of 3 exclusive UK venues for hire with: award winning customer service, bags of personality, innovation, and inclusivity, all within a sustainable offer.
Our amazing venues in Bristol, London and Leamington Spa are designed to provide the best settings for productive business, have shared values, and are perfect for all you conference, meeting, training, and event requirements.
Woodland Grange, Leamington Spa, Midlands
A residential conference venue and hotel, set in 16 acres of beautiful gardens in the heart of the Midlands. It’s the ultimate venue to balance both work and relaxation.
Broadway House, Westminster, London
This impressive Edwardian building offers five floors of light, contemporary rooms for hire in Westminster. It’s the ideal place for meeting colleagues, clients, or delegates in London.
Engineers’ House, Clifton, Bristol
Engineers’ House is a high quality, high tech, prestigious venue in a prime location. It offers ample free parking, beautiful outside spaces and is open 7 days a week.
For almost 50 years, Manufacturing Management has been the lead source of information for factory managers tasked with improving manufacturing performance, productivity and profit in their sites. In these unprecedented times, having access to the right information at the right time has never been more important. Constantly evolving to meet our readers’ needs and reporting on manufacturing best practice, Manufacturing Management delivers high-quality content and unrivalled access to a difficult-to-reach and influential audience of manufacturing managers and their senior leadership teams.
Celebrating the best in UK manufacturing and engineering excellence and innovation.
Smart Manufacturing & Engineering Week returns in June 2025 and is designed to help support the sector in all stages of their smart manufacturing and engineering journeys.
Brimming with expert content, valuable peer to peer interaction and the best products and services available, it is the largest UK festival of advanced manufacturing and engineering of the year, showcasing cutting-edge innovations in hardware and software and solutions to the current industry challenges being faced.
Keep your finger on the pulse of developments in the sector, discover what our immersive tech-driven event will hold in 2025.
The show contains 4 dedicated exhibitions:
· Design & Engineering Expo is for designers and engineering professionals looking to reduce costs, streamline and optimise future strategy
· Smart Factory Expo showcases the latest digital innovations in manufacturing technology, processes and thinking behind Industry 4.0.
· Maintec is the UK’s longest standing maintenance engineering, reliability and asset management event focused on the tools, technologies and people that support the industry.
· Drives & Controls is a pivotal event in the realm of industrial automation, presenting cutting-edge solutions that empower the efficient and secure operation of machinery and processes
Smart Manufacturing & Engineering Week returns on 4-5 June 2025 and is designed to help support the sector in all stages of their smart manufacturing and engineering journeys. Encompassing 6 core events covering the entire engineering ecosystem, plus dinners, receptions and more.
At VEST, we empower businesses to cut costs, meet carbon goals, and ease grid pressure with tailored battery storage solutions. Since 2020, we’ve led the way in optimizing battery storage sites to maximise ROI while delivering affordable, green energy. With a focus on battery optimisation, our mission is to educate partners and customers on the financial benefits of battery storage, making it accessible for businesses worldwide.
At WTW, we understand the unique challenges and opportunities that manufacturers face. To help your manufacturing business thrive despite current and emerging risks, we offer a broad spectrum of risk and insurance solutions specifically tailored to meet your needs, delivered by our specialist risk team.
Manufacturers who are able to embrace change and manage risk within their operating landscape can position themselves for success. We are your trusted partner in this journey, providing the expertise and tools needed to manage and mitigate manufacturing risks effectively. Our solutions cover a wide range of risk areas, including supply chain disruption, managing risk and insurance costs, climate and environmental risks, and protecting your business from cyber threats.
Our goal is to help you identify and address your unique risks, turning them into actionable opportunities for growth and success. Leverage our local and global network of insurance and manufacturing risk specialists, along with our advanced analytics, to find a smarter way to manage your risks and capitalise on opportunities.
