AILU 2025 Annual Job Shop Business Meeting
November 27 @ 10:00 am - 4:00 pm GMT
£95.00 – £115.00
Sponsored by Laser Trader
Introduction
The laser manufacturing sector contains over 150 subcontractors in the UK. If you are a member of this community or in the supply chain, this meeting is for you!
Not a member of AILU? No problem! Non-members are welcome too. Talk to us about special offer tickets for non-members in the laser subcontract industry – especially if you have never experienced this meeting before.
After this event, you will take away vital information which can make a real difference to your business. By mixing with industry peers, the AILU Job Shop Members can benchmark their performance in a number of business areas. This meeting will focus on Carbon Footprint reduction, Cyber Security, Cost of Metals and Scrap, Micromachining, Welding and much more – so that participants have the information to determine the future directions of their business. Plenty of time is set aside in the programme for networking and discussion with delegates and presenters.
As well as the above there will be the usual opportunities to catch up with the latest new technology on the market, the results of the Prime and Scrap Metal Survey and the Open Discussion Forum which allows people to ask any question that may be answered by our panel of experts or participants in the audience.
Programme
09:15 – 09:45 Registration & refreshments
09:45 – 09:50 Welcome & Introduction
Chris Waters (Chair of AILU Job Shop Group)
09:50 – 10:05 Introduction to TRUMPF
Lee Moakes (TRUMPF UK)
10:05 – 10:25 Reducing Carbon and Costs with Real Solutions
Matthew Roberts (Energise)
10:25 – 10:45 Buying Energy in 2026
Liam Conway (Greenfields Energy Group)
10:45 – 11:05 Drivers and Challenges in the UK Steel Market 2026
Kaye Ayub (MEPS International)
11:05 – 11:35 Refreshments
11:35 -11:55 How Cyber-secure is Your Business?
Paul Crumpton (IASME)
11:55 -12:15 Latest Developments in Micro Laser Processing
TBC
12:15-12:35 Laser & Ultrasonic Welding
Phil Carr (Carrs Welding)
12:35 – 13:40 Lunch
13:40 – 14:40 What’s new – short commercial presentations
Short company pitches (10 mins each): Bystronic, Ficep, SS Laser Solutions, Mate Tooling Solutions, World Machinery, TRUMPF
14:40 – 14:50 AILU Prime & Scrap Metal Survey Results
Dave MacLellan (AILU)
14:50-15:30 Open Discussion Forum
15:30 Close
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