UKIZ Zone · potential location: The Birmingham and Coventry corridor
Midlands
Advanced manufacturing and automotive technology
Proposed by UKIZ · not a government designation
The zone
01 — THE MISSION
Convert Britain's automotive heritage into leadership in electrification, industrial automation and precision engineering, with the supply chain already in place.
02 — WHY IT MATTERS
- Battery and electrification supply chain retained in Britain
- Manufacturing employment renewed around new technology
- Export of industrial systems, not only components
Comparable in function to the Guangzhou auto-tech cluster.
03 — WHY THIS LOCATION
- The historic centre of British automotive manufacturing.
- Jaguar Land Rover and Rolls-Royce anchor deep engineering capability.
- Major engineering universities with industrial research programmes.
- Existing supply chain infrastructure.
04 — EXISTING STRENGTHS
- WMG at the University of Warwick
- UK Battery Industrialisation Centre
- Birmingham and Coventry technology corridors
05 — WHO BELONGS HERE
- Vehicle and battery manufacturers
- Automation and robotics suppliers
- Tier one and tier two engineering firms
- Industrial investors
06 — INDUSTRIES
- EV manufacturing
- Automotive innovation
- Battery technology
- Industrial automation
- Precision engineering
07 — UNIVERSITIES & RESEARCH
- University of Warwick
- University of Birmingham
- Loughborough University
08 — INFRASTRUCTURE
- Battery industrialisation and test facilities
- Automation and production engineering lines
- Grid capacity for manufacturing
- Logistics and freight connectivity
09 — THE COMMERCIALISATION PATH
- Research→
- Problem→
- Prototype→
- Company→
- Capital→
- Customer→
- Scale→
- Export
10 — WHAT SUCCESS COULD CREATE
- Battery and electrification supply chain retained in Britain
- Manufacturing employment renewed around new technology
- Export of industrial systems, not only components
Described as outcomes rather than forecasts. UKIZ makes no projections it cannot evidence.
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