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Founded over three years ago by manufacturers, Manufacturing Wales is an independent, industry-led network that champions the vision and ambitions of manufacturers and academia across Wales. As a collaborative consortium, it was established to address the complex needs of Welsh-based manufacturers, promote world-class capabilities, elevate Welsh brands, maximise supply chain opportunities, and enhance resilience by connecting with higher and further academic institutions. It has become an essential sector focussed platform for manufacturers and educational institutions to connect, share challenges, and develop solutions. With a strong emphasis on quality, Manufacturing Wales ensures Welsh brands achieve global recognition, are driven by technology, and develop new supply chain ecosystems. It also serves as a voice for the industry, fostering sharing, learning, and collaboration.

Manufacturing Wales is excited to announce the addition of Alex Shufflebottom to its Board. Alex will join existing board members from British Rototherm, Creo Medical, IQE, Philtronics, Penderyn Distillery, Pro Steel Engineering, The Safety Letterbox Company Ltd, and SPTS (a KLA company). The Board is chaired by Frank Holmes of Gambit Corporate Finance.

Alex Shufflebottom is a director of Shufflebottom Ltd., a company that manufactures steel-framed buildings for industrial, agricultural, and commercial markets across the UK and beyond. With its factory and headquarters in Crosshands, Shufflebottom also maintains offices in Scotland and Norfolk. Alex has been with Shufflebottom permanently since 2000 after earning her degree in Psychology from Swansea University.

In 2008, Alex, alongside her brother Wesley Shufflebottom and then-General Manager Alec Davies, led a management buyout of the company. Despite facing numerous challenges, Shufflebottom has grown into an award-winning, market-leading company with significantly increased turnover and profitability. Additionally, Alex serves on the board of RIDBA, a trade association of frame manufacturers, and holds an MBA from the University of South Wales.

Having been a member of Manufacturing Wales for several years, Alex has now joined the board, expressing her enthusiasm for contributing to the consortium’s ongoing success.

‘Being a part of Manufacturing Wales is incredibly important to Shufflebottom as it provides a platform to share experiences and challenges, to work together, to help each other, as well as being a fantastic avenue to gain information from funding to training to markets to so much more. It is an honour to now be asked to join the board of this group of Welsh Manufacturers’.