The Manufacturing Technologies Association (MTA) has announced that Lloyds Bank Commercial Banking will be the ‘headline’ sponsor of MACH 2016.

This is the third successive time that Lloyds Bank has decided to sponsor MACH, which takes place every two years (in 2014, it attracted more than 23,000 visitors).

David Atkinson, head of manufacturing (SME) at Lloyds Bank Commercial Banking, said: “Manufacturing plays an important role and is crucial in fulfilling the UK’s growth ambitions. At Lloyds Bank, we have committed an additional £1 billion of new lending to the sector every year until 2017.”