The Proving Factory consortium has been shortlisted for the UK Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders’ annual Award for Automotive Innovation. The award recognises new and existing products, technologies or innovations, developed within the UK, which demonstrate exemplary research and development and have the potential to transform the automotive industry.
Tata Steel is a leading member of the Proving Factory consortium, a GBP 22M manufacturing initiative in the UK’s South Yorkshire and Midlands regions that works on developing green technologies to power the cars of the future. It takes low-carbon vehicle technologies designed by small high-tech British companies and university research departments and prove their viability in production to increase their chances of being adopted by major motor manufacturers.
Richard Jones, Tata Steel’s Proving Factory project manager, said: “Our work in The Proving Factory is already beginning to show how Tata Steel, Productiv and our other partners can be a driving force in bringing low-carbon vehicle technologies to market. To have reached the shortlist of these awards is something the whole team can be proud of, and we look forward to the next round.”
The winner will be announced at the SMMT Annual Dinner on November 26.
