Best of British Showcase

Join us in a celebration of domestic manufacturing

Featuring world-beating new designs, innovative modes of manufacture, products that redefine categories, and export successes that plant the flag in overseas markets. Participants include the finalists in The Manufacturer MX and Top 100 awards programmes, and recommendations from the editorial team. Previous years have included LEVC Taxi, JLR, BMW Mini, Mini Heritage, Leonardo, Farm Urban, Aurrigo, Aston Martin, BAC Mono, Airbus, A-Safe.

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Companies featured in the 2024 showcase include:

Yunex Traffic – Current Reigning Manufacturer of the Year!
MasterMover – Joint Product Innovation & Design Manufacturer of the Year!
LISI Aerospace – Taahir Patel Young Manufacturer of the Year, Highly Commended Leadership & Strategy Manufacturer of the Year, previous People & Skills Manufacturer of the Year!
Nim’s Fruit Crisps - Nimisha Raja, Founder of Kent-based food manufacturer, Nim’s Fruit Crisps, was awarded an MBE in King Charles’ first ever birthday honours for her services to business and enterprise.
JJA Snack - Step into the world of chocolate engineering with their Mini Chocolate Factory Experience! (See PDF attached)
ThrustWSH - World’s Water Speed Record project

Taking place at Smart Manufacturing & Engineering Week is an exclusive showcase of the ThrustWSH project, headed by Richard Noble OBE. Make sure you join us and witness this amazing piece of engineering.

The ThrustWSH project is the follow on from the team’s previous World Record projects – the 1983 Thrust2 World Land Speed record 633mph, the 1997 ThrustSSC first ever supersonic land speed record 763mph and the 1000MPH BloodhoundSSC project which was lost due to non payment of a formal grant offer. The ThrustSSC project is the only one to ever create and deliver a supersonic land speed record. There have been no further successful challenges since then.

During the 12 year programme of the 130,000hp 1000mph BloodhoundSSC project - the Ministry of Defence requested the initiation of a schools programme to increase student interest in STEM subjects. That programme was a most successful achievement engaging with over 2m schoolchildren and during 1997 engaging with 120,000 students and school children. This request by the MoD came about because of their issues with the quality of applicants and dissatisfaction with overall recruitment standards.

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