Decarbonisation in Industry: The Road to Sustainable and Cost-Effective Manufacturing

Sam Turner: CTO, High Value Manufacturing Catapult

Professor Sam Turner is the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of the High Value Manufacturing (HVM) Catapult. Sam works across the HVM Catapult centres and stakeholders, including government, to develop manufacturing strategy for the UK. He is part of the Made Smarter strategy implementation group led by Juergen Maier and was part of the review team. In this role Sam has chaired the D4I digital industry group, the Through Life Engineering Services (TES) Council and the IMechE Manufacturing Industries Division.

He joined the HVM Catapult team in 2017 from his role as CTO of the Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC) with Boeing, where he worked on a range of projects and capabilities including the flagship digital facility Factory 2050, machining, casting and composites technology. As a founding member of the AMRC, Sam led the growth of the AMRC’s Machining Group, with successes in delivering impact to UK industry, before moving into the CTO role. Sam has over 20 years experience in manufacturing working across the aerospace, steel, defence, automotive sectors.

Aaron Goater: Industry Lead, Climate Change Committee

Aaron Goater leads the CCC's work on decarbonisation of industry (manufacturing, construction and fossil fuel supply). Recently this has involved leading the industrial aspects of CCC advice to Government on the setting of the Sixth Carbon Budget and UK Net-Zero target and the CCC’s annual reports to Parliament on UK decarbonisation progress. Previously, Aaron worked in the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology for four years, providing impartial advice to MPs and peers on a range of energy and climate change topics. Aaron also previously worked as a post-doctoral researcher at the British Geological Survey, modelling geological CO2 storage, a topic in which he holds a PhD.

Andy Joynson: Chief Blender, InnocentDrinks Ltd.

Andy Joynson brings change into operations. He’s led by a desire to find new and positive ways to answer today’s challenges.Finding ways for supply chains and factories to be different and to demonstrate how they can be more sustainable for the planet and people who work there. He joined Innocent Drinks in 2019 to build the earth’s favourite little healthy drinks factory in Rotterdam, ‘the blender’.

Under his leadership the blender will dramatically reduce innocent’s overall carbon footprint. It will be carbon neutral, incorporating the newest ideas to both conserve and to source zero emissions energy. It will also maximise water conservation and recycling of resources, utilising innovative technology specifically developed for the blender. The blender will achieve the highest standards of construction for sustainability in the materials used and in design for an environment that takes care of people’s wellbeing.

Andy studied Engineering at Loughborough University of Technology and started his career at Cadbury. He then worked in senior Supply Chain roles across a range of food & drink businesses, both manufacturing and retail, including PepsiCo, Cott, Morrisons & Warburtons.

Konstantinos Salonitis: Professor and Head of Sustainable Manufacturing Systems Centre, University of Cranfield

David Barrow: Managing Director, Haddonstone

Paul Freeman: Director, Blast Furnaces, Primetals Technologies Ltd

Paul Freeman is a Chartered Mechanical Engineer (IMechE) and Chartered Project Professional (APM). He has over 30 years of experience in the iron and steel plant building industry and currently holds the role as Head of Blast Furnaces for Primetals Technologies Ltd. He has worked throughout the world in countries like Turkey, Mexico, India and Brazil - where he spent almost 10 years building and re-building Blast Furnaces. He is energized by the change in focus in the global iron & steel industry and he is excited by the potential to minimize the CO2 impact of the Blast Furnace.

Sophie Parsons: LCA Specialist, National Composites Centre

Sophie Parsons is an LCA Specialist at the National Composite Centre. She is a Chartered Engineer and Chartered Environmentalist with over 10 years’ experience in life cycle assessment and systems analysis. She has worked across industrial research, consultancy and academia, ensuring products and processes are designed with sustainability in mind from the outset. She is also a Strategic Advisor to the Institute for Materials, Minerals and Mining (IOM3), and represents them on the RAEng National Engineering Policy Centre (NEPC) working group on decarbonisation.

Takeshi Matsumiya: Chief Manufacturing Engineer, Gordon Murray Design Ltd.

Takeshi Matsumiya is the leader of a Manufacturing Engineering team consisting of experts with an integrated view of manufacturing to maximise the capabilities of the iStream® manufacturing process and drive the development of its technology.

Takeshi joined the team at Gordon Murray Design in 2014 with a focus to enhance automotive performance through the use of its iStream® manufacturing technology.

With 36 years of experience in the Automotive industry, Takeshi began his career as employee No.2 of the Nissan Sunderland manufacturing plant as Body in White engineer, later moving to NSK Steering Systems European Technical Centre as Engineering Director / Head of Engineering, moving to TRW Automotive as Head of R&D Technical Centre (CDEPS), before joining Gordon Murray Design.

John Cowan: Electric MINI Assembly Integration Project Leader, BMW (UK) Manufacturing Ltd

John Cowan graduated from Southampton University in aeronautics and astronautics in 1988 and joined, Austin Rover at Cowley. His early career was in assembly as a process engineer on the Rover 800, MGRV8 and Rover 75. He held management positions in current engineering, quality, electrical planning, and manufacturing engineering. He was the assembly project leader for the 2008 electric MINI, MINI coupe and roadster. After a short spell in BMW Plant Leipzig he returned to Oxford to integrate the MINI SE into assembly. He is currently developing their production system for the future.

Russ Hall: Senior Research Fellow, Warwick Manufacturing Group

Russ Hall’s industrial experience includes oil and gas, power generation and steel manufacture. Russ moved to WMG in 2018 and is involved in projects aimed at improving manufacturing efficiency, product control, circular economy for metals and consultancy work to support policy for the foundation industries. As part of the need to improve manufacturing efficiency and the drive towards zero carbon Russ has been building projects considering waste heat recovery opportunities for businesses of all sizes.

Stuart Bradley: Principal Engineer, Warwick Manufacturing Group

Stuart Bradley is Principal Engineer, Power Electronics and Machines at WMG, University of Warwick, and has a PhD in Electro-Mechanical Engineering. He works on the development of power electronics, machines and drives for transport, energy and industrial processes. He has worked on energy development for over twenty years, including renewable energy, waste heat recovery systems, electric drivelines and production line design.

Simon Morris: Principal Consultant, Whole Energy Systems & Carbon Management, Ricardo Energy & Environment

Ian Arbon: Managing Director, Engineered Solutions

Mick Albayati: General Manager, Region E&ME, Real Estate Management and Site Security, BMW Group

Mick Albayati, after gaining a BEng in Automotive Engineering and an MSC in Engineering Management his early career was spent with Ford, Mazda and Maserati/Cosworth motorsport. He joined BMW group in 2006 and worked in Audit management. Following a posting to Plant Kaliningrad on the construction team, Mick returned to head Real estate management and site security.

Shak Gohir: Senior Technology Officer (STO), CPI

Shak Gohir enjoys helping entrepreneurs and companies to innovate transformative new technologies, materials, products and services. He has a passion for solutions that drive greater levels of environmental sustainability to mitigate climate change and progress the world towards a circular economy. Shak has over 30 years of experience in shaping, developing and delivering challenging projects, building consortia and successfully securing public-private finance for collaborative R&D initiatives. He holds a Master in Chemical Engineering from the University Newcastle-upon-Tyne and was awarded a Fellowship in Manufacturing Management by Cranfield University.

Peter Ball: Professor of Operations Management, University of York Management School

Rachael Everard: Head of Sustainability, Rolls-Royce

Rachael Everard is responsible for the development and delivery of sustainability strategy and policy, and is a driving force behind the broad based power systems group’s ambition to reach net zero carbon. A graduate of the University of St Andrews, Rachael is a member of the IEMA and sits on the corporate advisory board of the We Mean Business coalition.