Future Skills, Up-skilling and Re-Skilling: Life-Long Learning in the Metals Sector
Workforce of the Future – the need for green skills, digital skills and attracting talent.
Why Aluminium?
Wednesday 14th September 2022
14:00 - 14:50 | FREE to attend, register now |Download Show Guide
Theatre : Supply Chain, Trade and Policy
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While sustainability is an important source of competitive advantage for aluminium producers and manufacturers, it is now becoming an imperative.
The recent release of ALFED’s Net Zero Report highlights that collaboration across sectors is key in delivering radical innovation, growth and change and this panel of experts will examine how and why aluminium is ideally positioned to help UK industry as it moves towards more sustainable supply chains.
Geoffrey Scamans Professor of Metallurgy at Brunel UniversityChief Scientific Officer at Innoval Technology
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