Brammer's award winners announced

Alastair Campbell, former Labour spokesman and communications strategist, was the host of the 2010 annual Manufacturing Forum and Awards Lunch held by Brammer.

The event, held at the Ironbridge Gorge Museum and entitled Manufacturing our Future, was attended by more than 100 senior delegates from UK manufacturing. The keynote address was given by Steve Radley, director of policy and external affairs at the EEF, who explored the future for UK manufacturing in the post-recession economy. Two further seminars were hosted by Alan France, operations director of Idhammer Systems and Dr Keivan Zokaei ofWarwick University.

The awards recognise the importance of sustainability, product and service innovation in delivering improved operational performance.

The winners were: Sustainable Manufacturing - Unilever; Reduced Maintenance Award - Rio Tinto Alcan; Increased Production Uptime Award - TATA Steel; Business Process Improvement Award - Michelin; and the Supplier Management Award - Festo.