Partners
When you choose to partner with MTC, you’re choosing to cement your place at the heart of a like-minded and collaborative community. Centred on partnership and co-creation, it’s a group with the power to solve each other’s challenges and share each other’s opportunities, united by a passion for progress across the world of manufacturing and technology.
Who we work with
Reimagining the realms of possibility
From the industry’s biggest brands to the most enterprising SMEs, MTC is a partnership group that’s growing in influence every single year. It’s a collection of like-minded organisations that appreciate the immeasurable value found at the intersection of world-leading research and ground-breaking advances.
Our partner model has been designed to create deeper, more meaningful relationships built on shared ambition, strategic collaboration and long-term impact. Whether you contribute through collaborative research and innovation via the Core Research Programme (CRP), specialist solutions, network influence or prefer to focus on one-to-one projects, MTC provides a framework for organisations to work together, or directly with us, to tackle industry-wide challenges and unlock future opportunities.
Whether partnership fees are contributed directly to the work of the CRP, with members shaping decisions and contributing solutions, or if you prefer to focus on one-to-one projects, your decision to join MTC could be of defining importance - for your organisation, for our industry, and for society as a whole.
Meet Simon, our Partnership Expert
Simon leads Customer Engagement at MTC, overseeing Business Development and Membership functions. With over 20 years experience, he excels in creating valuable partnerships with industry leaders across Manufacturing, Software and Financial Services. Simon's expertise in identifying and converting industrial projects, drives value creation and positive societal impact. He holds an MBA from Henley, has experience of playing high-level sport overseas and possesses an endless level of intellectual curiosity.
Membership benefits
A membership rich with benefits
Strategic influence
Inform future research priorities, industrial trends and innovation opportunities through participation in strategic engagement forums and collaborative programmes.
Collaborative partnerships
Forge cross-industry, collaborative partnerships with like-minded organisations.
Impact
Create societal impact, contributing to projects of nationally strategic significance.
Connections
Build cross-industry connections through networking with other MTC members.
Insights
Gain unique exposure to critical research insights and latest industry advances.
Skills & development
Access industry-leading training, knowledge-sharing programmes and development opportunities to strengthen organisational capability.
Our partner categories
Flexible partnership routes designed around how you collaborate
Our partner model recognises that organisations contribute value in different ways. It provides clear and purposeful partnership options that support a range of strategic objectives and engagement styles.
Whether your organisation is looking to influence future innovation, collaborate on research, access specialist expertise or strengthen its role within the manufacturing ecosystem, our team can help identify the partnership pathway best aligned to your strategic objectives.
Discover the many advantages of being an MTC partner, and join our community of over 95 organisations from different sectors and that range from SMEs through to large organisations.
Core partner
Organisations at the heart of the MTC community, actively contributing to and helping shape the direction of the Core Research Programme and long-term priorities.
Core partner
Organisations at the heart of the MTC community, actively contributing to and helping shape the direction of the Core Research Programme and long-term priorities.
Core partner
Organisations at the heart of the MTC community, actively contributing to and helping shape the direction of the Core Research Programme and long-term priorities.
Core partner
Organisations at the heart of the MTC community, actively contributing to and helping shape the direction of the Core Research Programme and long-term priorities.
Core partner
Organisations at the heart of the MTC community, actively contributing to and helping shape the direction of the Core Research Programme and long-term priorities.
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Where a project aligns to and delivers on MTC's technology strategy, as co-created with our partners and wider industry, MTC may make a limited contribution to project costs. In this case, IP rights will be shared as detailed in the partnership agreement.
Our partners
Find out more about our partners, who they are and what technologies we work with them on. Speak to our partnership team to explore how your organisation could become part of the MTC partner network and help shape the future of manufacturing.
