Promoted content: Unipart's Bhavik Shah on driving a resilient and sustainable automotive sector

When it comes to revolutions, UK manufacturing has a pretty good track record of leading the charge. Depending on which historical source you take your steer from, the first industrial revolution took place in the mills of Manchester or in the Shropshire town of Ironbridge.

Fast-forward four centuries and companies find themselves in the midst of another era of change, with digital manufacturing making its way across the shopfloor and arguably an even bigger transformation in how we travel and transport goods.

‘Cleaner mobility’ is certainly a major political and societal challenge, so much so the UK is striving to lead the race when it comes to its ‘Net Zero in Transportation’ by 2035 ambition. This will see the internal combustion engine phased out and replaced with greener powertrains, most noticeably electric batteries and, the complementary, hydrogen fuel cell.

I’ve seen the start of this journey first-hand, initially in my role with the Advanced Propulsion Centre and now in my current position at Unipart Manufacturing, where we are taking established tier-one automotive manufacturing capabilities to provide solutions into multiple sectors such as rail, utilities and construction.