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Companies can now bid for a share of 拢100 million from a government scheme to help them strengthen their domestic supply chains and help bring manufacturing back to the UK.

The funding will provide research and development support, skills training and investment capital and encourage major new suppliers to 鈥榬eshore鈥� in the UK. It comes from the Advanced Manufacturing Supply Chain Initiative (AMSCI).

Five previous rounds of AMSCI funding have secured nearly half a billion pounds of public-private investment for 44 projects in the UK.

Business Secretary, Vince Cable said:

A strong manufacturing sector is vital to a balanced economic recovery, and I want to ensure that Britain鈥檚 supply chains are up to the task of supporting the sector in the long term.

Our industrial strategy, which has given business the confidence to invest, is paying dividends in the reshoring we have seen so far. We will continue to support businesses to secure more highly skilled jobs and a stronger economy.

Previous recipients of AMSCI funding have included technology for increasing the scale of 3D printing of metals; and reshoring the manufacture of cats鈥� eyes from overseas to the UK.

It has also included the creation of a 鈥楴ational Aerospace Technology Exploitation Programme鈥� led by the Aerospace Growth Partnership to address skills shortages and improve R&D collaboration in the aerospace sector. The 拢35 million project aims to create nearly 5,000 jobs in the supply chain.

Terry Scuoler, Chief Executive at EEF, the manufacturers鈥� organisation, said:

This is another welcome boost for British manufacturing, which will have a positive impact on the wider economy. Our own research shows that in the last 3 years, 1 in 6 companies have re-shored production back to the UK with many turning to a UK-based supply chain for parts and components. High value manufacturing creates jobs and wealth here so I鈥檓 delighted to see the government getting behind it.

The manufacturing sector supports two and a half million jobs and contributes almost 拢140 billion a year to the UK.

Full competition details and information can be found on the .

Notes to editors:

1. The Advanced Manufacturing Supply Chain Initiative (AMSCI) is a funding competition designed to improve the global competitiveness of UK advanced manufacturing supply chains and encourage major new suppliers to locate in the UK.
2. Four national rounds and a regional scheme are now active. 44 projects have received a joint public-private investment of almost half a billion pounds. Just over 拢200 million of public funds leverages nearly 拢300 million of private investment. Over 180 organisations, many of them small and medium sized businesses, are involved in delivering the benefits of these projects in increased capabilities, better co-ordinated supply chains and more than 15,000 direct and more than 15,000 indirect jobs created or safeguarded.
3. The government鈥檚 long-term plan is to build a strong, more competitive economy and a fairer society.
   Industrial Strategy gives impetus to the plan for growth by providing businesses, investors and the public with clarity about the long-term direction in which the government wants the economy to travel.
   The first achievements and future priorities of the industrial strategy have been published and can be found here /government/publications/industrial-strategy-early-successes-and-future-priorities