This award has been developed to recognise those that have done the most to promote diversity, develop talent and build skills amongst their employees. This could also include promoting engineering and manufacturing careers through activities within the community.

Examples include (but are not limited to):

• Promoted equality, diversity and inclusion through workplace initiatives 
• Improved recruitment, retention and promotion for minority groups 
• Implemented upskilling or retraining programmes to meet skills gaps and/or bring in new talent 
• Implemented apprenticeship or a mentoring programme to recruit young talent 
• Improved or increased digital skills in the workplace to support a digital manufacturing future 
• Developed a programme to visit local primary and secondary schools to talk about business and career opportunities within the sector 
• Collaborative community activity to drive/promote manufacturing 

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This award has been developed to recognise exceptional projects that improve occupational health, safety & wellbeing in UK manufacturing workplaces. This could include projects designed to focus on your organisational culture, health issues like employee wellbeing or safety issues like the design of lock-out-tag-out procedures to ensure machine maintenance is done safely. It could also include the utilisation of new technologies, like computer vision or other applications of artificial intelligence to control workplace hazards. Entries should focus on one specific project that raises internal standards way above mere legal compliance & genuinely impacts the lives of manufacturing workers.

Examples include (but are not limited to):

• Promoting a broader ownership of health, safety & wellbeing within your senior leadership team.
• Developing a process that ensures that workers are fully involved in the assessment & control of your significant.
• Implementing programmes specifically aimed at raising the standard of incident investigation to ensure root causes are identified & repeat accidents are eliminated.
• Improving the competency level of employees through a focussed programme of multi-level training.
• Integrated a new health & safety software system that had a positive impact on reporting, investigation & action management.

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This award celebrates innovations executed through new products, processes, markets and business models. Such innovations will be governed by strategic intent and have driven greater productivity, efficiency and or business growth, within the last three years.  

Examples include (but are not limited to): 

• Pioneering Product or Process Innovation: Recognition for the development of a novel product, process, or design that demonstrates potential to shape future markets.
• Digital Transformation in Manufacturing: Acknowledgment for innovatively transforming manufacturing processes through strategic investment in digital technologies such as showcasing innovative/productive use of digital technologies or AI/digital transformation.
• Adoption of Emerging Technologies: Commendation for investment in cutting-edge technologies previously unexplored within the sector, showcasing forward-thinking initiatives.
• Collaborative Partnerships for Industry Solutions: Celebrating successful collaborations within the supply chain or with universities to address current economic challenges, such as volatile supply chains, and effectively bring new manufactured solutions to market. 
• Enhanced Efficiency and Productivity: Recognition for implementing innovative methods that significantly improve efficiency and productivity within manufacturing operations. 
• Innovative Business Model Evolution: Applauding the adoption of new business models that propel the company in a fresh direction, such as servitization or the introduction of circular economy principles, fostering sustainability and growth. 

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This award has been developed to recognise manufacturing companies who can demonstrate a significant positive impact as a result of their leading practices and/or products. We are looking for inspiring stories from UK manufacturers who have supported or enhanced their local community, network, or environment beyond the workplace that can act as an inspiration for others.

Examples include (but are not limited to): 

• Promoted company-wide volunteer projects for employees to participate in 
• Set-up fundraising activities to raise money for charity as part of a company-wide initiative
• Implemented a health and wellbeing programme to support your employees, their families and the local community
• Offered work placements or training for those at risk of unemployment
• Adapted your business and operating model to help community needs
• Developed a new, innovative product/service that demonstrates the value and contribution of manufacturing to society

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This award has been developed to champion businesses with less than 250 employees who have blazed a trail within the manufacturing sector. They will have led by example and developed progressive best practice for others in the industry. They will have shown exceptional initiative, boldness and dynamism, as well as exemplary management practices. 

Examples include (but are not limited to): 

• Exceptionally productive business spending/investment
• Adoption of new technologies that increased productivity and capacity
• Having deep ambition to scale in the future 
• Where staff have grown with the SME through its journey 
• Innovation and research supported and funded, even if total capital limited 
• Diversification in product or service offering, showcasing the business’s agility as an SME to meet changing demand 
• Demonstrated a commitment to supporting their local community  

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This award has been developed to recognise the most dynamic business growth as a result of an actively managed and consistently delivered growth strategy. This could include implementation of a new export strategy, business expansion or product diversification. We are looking for specific projects which were primarily delivered over the last 12 months.

Examples include (but are not limited to): 

• Demonstrated overseas market share growth and globalisation strategy 
• Investment made to increase production digitalisation in order to support industry beating growth objectives
• Overcame challenges to enter new markets or new industry segment resulting in business growth
• Investment made in management/staff/apprentices training to upskill the workforce and increase productivity 
• Developed new products/service which led to significant business secured from new customers
• Increased distribution base or established new supply chains / increased resilience to support growth 

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This award has been developed to recognise those that have done the most to improve overall environmental performance and enhance sustainability, and gone above and beyond business as usual, as well as compliance. We are looking for organisations that have developed a specific, defined project or programme resulting in measurable, positive sustainability impact. This could have been achieved through efficiency savings in the use of raw materials, energy, water; the adoption of clean technologies; improved waste management and recycling; development of greener products; and/or more generally changing operational processes to increase environmental efficiency. It could be part of an initiative to commit to and/or plan for Net Zero by 2050 or earlier, or to contribute to the Government’s target to reduce electricity demand by 15%.

Examples include (but are not limited to): 

• Set out a greenhouse gas emission footprint reduction target aligned with or bettering the Govt net zero 2050 target. 
• Cut the company’s onsite greenhouse gas emission footprint through energy efficiency and/or use of renewables
• Projects relating to measuring, influencing and reducing greenhouse gas emissions across Scopes 1, 2 and 3 (suppliers, logistics, product use or end-of-life) to effectively reduce CO2 emissions and lower their carbon footprint.
• Projects related to applying Circular economy and increasing the circularity of products/processes in the business
• Reduce your energy consumption through energy or resource efficiency
• Addressed the environmental impact of waste and resource use
• Promoted environmental awareness internally and externally
• Redesigned supply chains or business models, or introducing new products that reduce whole lifecycle impacts
• Nature-based actions to enhance bio-diversity
• Demonstrated engaging with their supply chain to reduce their supply chain emissions
• Demonstrated improvements in either environmental or social sustainability

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