Manufacturers facing financial cliff edge if government doesn’t widen energy support measures warns CBM

Posted on 29 Mar 2023 by The Manufacturer

Hundreds of smaller manufacturers, critical to the UK supply chain, could be forced to close when the Government withdraws its Energy Bill Relief Scheme (EBRS) at the end of March.

This stark warning comes from the Confederation of British Metalforming (CBM), who believe the powers that be at Whitehall are missing a massive trick in focusing on just 300 large manufacturers who they class as ‘Energy Intensive’. The CBM, which has over 200 members made up of sheet metal formers, forgers, fasteners and cold formers,…

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