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EDITORIAL
Editor
Mark Simms BSc Tel: 01732 773268 ENSURING UK PLC IS A WINNER AS
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ADVERTISING WE NAVIGATE THE ‘NEW NORMAL’
Regional Director (Home Counties & South East)
Mark West Tel: 020 8467 3613
mark.west@itmagazine.uk.com y latest phone bill was a bit of a frightener, but is probably a good
indicator of the time I’ve spent chatting to friends and colleagues in
Regional Sales Manager (Midlands)
David Harman Tel: 01772 462596 the industry over the last few weeks. Not being to get out and talk
Mto people in person, my phone line has been engaged more often
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than not as I’ve tried to keep abreast of developments within our industry and to
Regional Sales Manager (North of England, Scotland & Wales)
find out how businesses are holding up through the current crisis.
Jan Anderson Tel: 01978 314730 Particularly fascinating have been some of the discussions around how
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companies have tackled social distancing as they look to get their facilities
Deutschland/Suisse/Österreich into shape so that people can work safely. As an example, I spoke to
Eisenacher Medien Tel: +49 228-2499860 colleagues at drives specialist Control Techniques which, as the
info@eisenacher-medien.de Coronavirus struck, was just in the midst of ra eshoring exercise to bring
Overseas more of its manufacturing back to the UK. That’s an investment in itself,
George Bennett MA Tel: + 44 161 374 5615 but just as frightening was the money the company has had to spend
it.marketing@itmagazine.uk.com on personal safety measures, including a one way system around the
factory. If you’re lost in thought and miss your station, it’s quite a walk
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to go all the way round again.
Steve Brotherton Tel: 01625 268585
steve@itmagazine.uk.com As you’d expect, there are copius hand sanitisers and kilometres of
tape on the floor, but there are also some creative solutions to production
MAILING ADDRESSES problems. Need two people working in close proximity on a part of the
Press Releases: mark.simms@itmagazine.uk.com line? Not a problem when you’re the biggest employers in the area: just
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put two family members together. The result for Control Techniques is
Head Office: Victoria House, 2 Mornington Road
Sale, Cheshire M33 2DA that is was only closed for three weeks during the crisis, primarily to
Email: it.marketing@itmagazine.uk.com get its safety measures in place.
Circulation Department: PO Box 85, Sale M33 2BB I guess these are the sorts of working changes that we’ll all get used to
Email: it.circulation@itmagazine.uk.com over the next few months, part of what defines the ‘new normal’. What we
don’t know yet is what sort of trading environment we’re all coming back to.
GENERAL ENQUIRIES
Email: it.info@itmagazine.uk.com Tel: 0161 374 5615 Undoubtedly there will be winners and losers, but can our sector as a whole
be one of the winners? Right now manufacturing has been identified as
As a controlled circulation journal, Industrial Technology is sent free somewhere in between, with an IMD report suggesting it can either benefit
of charge to individuals in the UK who meet the terms and or suffer depending on how it responds. From production logistics to supply
conditions of the publishers. To apply for free regular copies, write to chain disruption to the challenges of customer engagement in a socially
the Circulation Department. To those not meeting the terms and
conditions, the magazine is available on UK subscription at a cost of distanced world, the difficulties are many.
£90 per year (10 issues). Single copies are £9. Overseas I believe Industrial Technology has a role to play, which is where our two
subscriptions (airmail) are as follows: Rest of Europe including Eire ‘Back to Business’ special issues come in. In this first part, we’ve garnered
£140 (single copies £14); USA $220 (single $22); Rest of the
World £170 (single copies £17). expert opinion on what the trading environment is going to look like, and
what some of the challenges are going to be. In part two, we’ll be talking
to suppliers about how they can help in addressing these challenges.
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Together, we can look to maximise opportunities and ensure that our
Industrial sector comes out of the crisis as a winner rather than a loser.
Mark Simms
Technology
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