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Christopher Proudfoot
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I attended the launch event for the University of Liverpool Centre for Sustainable Business last night. Details are here: University of Liverpool: Centre for Sustainable Business Launch Tickets, Tue 18 Oct 2022 at 17:00 | Eventbrite

The event included an opening address by its Director Professor Jo Meehan and keynote presentations by Jeremy Nicholls of the United Nations Development Programme, and Kate Downes and Katie Dean from the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority.

Jeremy Nicholls challenged current practices of building sustainability based on continuing to produce our current products, with associated consumption, rather than looking at the wider picture of how we produce and consume less. This will, indeed, be a challenge for Manufacturing! 

The theme of "Reimagining Business" was challenging and aligns with the IET Manufacturing Technical Network (TN) thinking in respect of developing its own event in 2023 to investigate the Opportunities for Manufacturers (large and small) arising from the sustainability agenda, I was particularly drawn to the concept of looking at different "futures" for businesses based on scenarios of different decisions/developments linked to sustainability and will be looking at how we can address this as part of our TN event, with a focus, of course, on Manufacturing.

If you are interested in contributing to and/or helping develop our Manufacturing Sustainability event or any of our other TN activities, we have openings for volunteers to join the TN and help reshape and expand the Executive. These opportunities range from simply attending a committee meeting, to bring new ideas to the table, through to organising, running, and promoting events. For more details, please contact us at Manufacturing-TPN@ietvolunteer.org

  • in reply to David J Matthews

    The theme of this week's launch event at Bournemouth University was "Prosperity with Sustainability". Prof Marcjanna Augustyn described how the centre will encourage inter-disciplinary collaboration between the Faculty of Science & Technology and the Business School as well as reaching out to partner with external stakeholders.

    A standout presentation for me was from John Twitchen of Stuff for Life (stuff4.life) who is developing a circular economy approach that retains the value in common industrial Personal Protective Equipment. We are already seeing similar commercial experiments in medical PPE from Tom Dawson of Revolution Zero (revolution-zero.com) as the importance of addressing scope 3 impact hits home. 

    As Chris calls out above, we are keen to encourage contributions to and engagement with a forthcoming event on Manufacturing Sustainability so please reply here on EngX or contact us at Manufacturing-TPN@ietvolunteer.org

  • Chris, I'm attending a similar event here on the South Coast next month (link below). Anyone would think that sustainability was a new bandwagon to jump on! Lets compare notes afterwards as we plan our programme for 2023.

    Launch of Bournemouth University Centre for Sustainable Business Transformations

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