MTA

The MTA was founded as the Machine Tools and Engineering Association in 1910 and reconstituted as the Machine Tools Trade Association in 1919. In the late twentieth century it became clear that rapid developments in manufacturing technologies and production methods needed the Association to provide a broader range of services to a widening potential membership base, and in 2001 the organisation changed its name to the Manufacturing Technologies Association. With a record of serving and representing the UK’s engineering based manufacturing sector stretching back over a century – and kept close to the modern realities through its organisation of the UK’s biggest manufacturing technologies trade show, MACH – the MTA has an unrivalled perspective on the industry’s strengths and challenges.