The project is the brainchild of former Financial Times manufacturing editor Peter Marsh, who explained: "The website – www.madeherenow.com – is setting out to put British manufacturing on the map with the public in a much more vibrant way than before, illustrating new technologies, innovation and skills through a series of articles, photography and video."
The website tells the story of modern-day industry through a series of articles and stunning pictures on four exemplar companies and is aiming to educate and inspire young people, academics, politicians and international investors about Britain's engineering strengths.
AES, Bentley Motors, Plessey Semiconductors and FormFormForm are the first companies to open their factories to give authors and photographers the chance to explore their shopfloors and discover innovations, new technologies and opportunities driving the next revolution.
Made Here Now has been put together by a team of journalists and photographers working with Manchester-based digital agencies inventid and Nine Sixty.
In addition to the profiles of the exemplar companies, there will also be feature articles from authors Jeremy Leonard (Oxford Economics), Marcus Gibson (Gibson Index) and James Woudhuysen (technology expert) covering the future for manufacturing in the developed world, the prospects for reshoring and major technology shifts respectively.