Every sector in Europe needs Advanced Manufacturing – now.
Wednesday 3 June: Europe has a narrow window left to retain and strengthen its global leadership in Advanced Manufacturing, but that window is closing quickly. This was the main message from the Orgalim membership as it launched a Manifesto with seven key recommendations to strengthen the European Union's leadership in Advanced Manufacturing. These include using public procurement to accelerate the uptake of Advanced Manufacturing, boosting our production of Advanced Materials, and recognising the link between Electrification and Advanced Manufacturing.
Advanced Manufacturing must be treated as a strategic priority and firmly integrated into all relevant areas of EU industrial policy
Advanced Manufacturing is more than a single technology – it is a powerful underlying ecosystem of different techniques and technologies that can strengthen every industrial sector, from automotive and aerospace to pharmaceuticals, agri-food, defense, clean energy, and electricity grid technologies.
It is therefore essential to achieve Europe’s strategic goals in terms of competitiveness, resilience, and climate ambition. Still, today’s industrial strategies tend to focus far more on what we make, rather than how we make it. Yet without state-of-the-art, highly automated and digitised industrial production systems, Europe will struggle to drive up productivity, scale clean technologies, and meet its objectives for sustainable growth. Achieving this requires strong, integrated value chains spanning the full spectrum of industrial actors, from manufacturers to the suppliers, subcontractors and SMEs on which they depend.
To read our full Manifesto and the seven key recommendations, please download the document below.
