The Global Manufacturing Festival is for businesses operating in the high technology, high quality, export led manufacturing supply chains. The UK is a trading nation that needs to meet the future challenges of an international world. Manufacturing is about making things across many sectors like engineering, food, digital, software, aerospace, power generators and medical. The UK must compete on all those sectors on technology, not cost. It must also build more trade with less traditional areas of the world like Asia, South America, Europe, China, India and Russia. The Global Manufacturing Festival and Trade Show focuses on those critical areas in order that businesses can compete and thrive into the future.