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Manufacturing organisation makes 'bold recommendations'

The manufacturing industry needs a “clear framework of action” according to the EEF, the industry organisation.

A series of “bold recommendations” comes on the back of the EEF manifesto for manufacturing, titled “Manufacturing Our Future.”

EEF wants to see better communication between manufacturing businesses and the government, including a strategy for a “more diverse, agile and innovative manufacturing sector”

Tony Sarginson, the North East representative of EEF, said: “Manufacturing must play a bigger role in our North East economy if we are to meet the challenges facing us over the next decade.

“It can be a major player in addressing climate change and meeting our demographic and security challenges as well as helping claw back in the twin deficits in the public sector and on trade.

“But this will only happen if our regional manufacturers show the ambition and make the investments needed to achieve this and the government sets out the framework that gives them the confidence to do this.

“In particular, the government must set out its priorities for the technologies and markets we need to develop and the steps it will take to help the UK succeed in them.”

The report suggests the government need to give a “clear signal” about their long term plans for new and developing markets to give private investors confidence in an emerging area.

An EEF statement said: “We will only deliver the type of economy the North East needs and one that will be well placed to benefit from a world economy that will double in size in the next 20 years wit ha clear framework for action.”

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ruth Mitchell .