Make UK forms Aluminium Group
The Make UK Special Interest Group will focus on Production and Processing of UK aluminium and counts Hydro, Arconic, and ALVANCE British Aluminium as founding members.
14.03.2025
Tuesday, 4 March 20025 saw the launch of the Make UK Aluminium Producers and Processors Group at the National Manufacturing Conference.
In attendance were representatives from all three founding member organisations Roger Ablett (Hydro), James Tangney (ALVANCE British Aluminium) and Ewelina Pieckowska (Arconic), along with Make UK National Membership Director, Jim Davison and Director of Policy and Government Affairs for Special Interest Groups, Daniel Paterson. During the Steering Group meeting held that day, the Aluminium Producers and Processors Group took a decision to begin a campaign for a National Aluminium Strategy to secure supply for vital areas of the economy including but not limited to the decarbonisation of UK industry.
We have seen in recent days and weeks the necessity for a group that focusses on the production and processing elements of the aluminium industry and we are delighted to have been able to develop such a forum with Make UK, the manufacturers organisation.
If we want an aluminium industry that serves the growing needs of the UK economy as we further develop the infrastructure and manufacturing that we will need in the coming decades, we need a domestic production and processing industry to sustain our strategic and security requirements.
I look forward to working with Make UK as the Chairman of the Aluminium Producers and Processors Group and with my fellow members to work towards a National Aluminium Strategy, rebuilding this vital part of the UK’s strategic economic base for the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead.
Make UK represents the depth and breadth of the UK manufacturing sector. Aluminium Production and Processing is an area of growing importance to the security of the UK’s manufacturing supply chain. That events have developed so quickly in recent weeks only goes to demonstrate the importance of such a group and the need to develop a long-term UK Aluminium Strategy to sustain UK security of supply chains.
