TRADE ASSOCIATONS FOR MANUFACTURERS AND ENGINEERS

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Trade Associations & Industry Bodies

National, sector and regional support directory of the trade associations and industry bodies who support UK manufacturing or engineering SMEs.

National Trade Associations & Industry Bodies

General Manufacturing

  • The Manufacturers’ Organisation
  • Manufacturing mark & member directory
  • Engineering and Manufacturing Alliance
  • British Manufacturing Consortium
  • Engineering Supply Chain UK
  • Society of Manufacturing Engineers

Metals & Metalforming

  • Confederation of British Metalforming
  • British Stainless Steel Association
  • Aluminium Federation
  • International Steel Trade Association

Machine Tools, Tooling & Precision Engineering

  • Manufacturing Technologies Association
  • British Turned Parts Manufacturing Association
  • Gauging and Toolmakers Association
  • Metal Forming Machinery Makers Association

Automotive & Motorsport

  • Society of Motor Manufacturers & Traders
  • Motorsport Industry Association

Aerospace & Defence

  • Aerospace, Defence, Security & Space

Automation & Robotics

Plastics, Composites & Surface Finishing

  • British Plastics Federation
  • Trade association for the UK composites industry
  • Surface Engineering Association

Instruments, Controls & Compressed Air

  • GAMBICATO CONFIRM
    Instruments, controls & automation manufacturers
  • British Compressed Air Society

Women in Engineering & Manufacturing

  • Women's Engineering Society — UK membership body for women across engineering, including manufacturing
  • Women into Science and Engineering, now part of the IET — UK, works directly with STEM/engineering employers
  • UK community for women in tech — broader tech sector rather than manufacturing-specific, included as an adjacent resource

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