Factory Tour at Greene Tweed

⚙️🌱 Process Discipline, Advanced Materials and Environmental Leadership

Made in Group members are invited inside Greene Tweed, a global leader in advanced polymer materials and high-performance sealing solutions, supplying safety-critical components into aerospace, semiconductor manufacturing, energy and highly regulated industrial markets.

Designed to operate in extreme environments – high temperatures, intense pressure and chemical exposure – Greene Tweed’s products demand absolute control, consistency and discipline throughout manufacture. This factory tour offers a rare opportunity to see how those demands are met in practice.

Operating as part of a global manufacturing group with sites across the UK, USA and Asia, the Ruddington facility has undergone a significant transformation in recent years. Once an overlooked site within the wider organisation, it is now recognised as a benchmark operation, setting standards for quality, productivity and operational discipline across Greene Tweed’s global manufacturing network.

Best Practice Focus – The Journey Behind the Standard

This visit is centred on sharing the journey, not presenting a polished endpoint. During the best practice session, the Greene Tweed leadership team will walk attendees through the decisions, challenges and cultural shifts behind the site’s transformation – with a particular focus on achieving ISO 14001 Environmental Management accreditation, making the UK operation the first site in the global group to reach this standard.

Rather than theory, the session will explore how environmental responsibility, process discipline and leadership accountability are embedded into day-to-day operations in a complex, safety-critical manufacturing environment.

On the day, you will experience:

• The Mould Shop in action – a technically complex, rarely seen capability where powdered resins are converted into solid billets for precision machining

• Process-led manufacturing – where cycle discipline, dwell times and standardised systems ensure consistency in high-risk production

• ISO 14001 in practice – the real roadmap from ambition to accreditation, including lessons learned and how standards are sustained

• Environmental control where it matters most – resin handling, waste management, energy use and heat-based processes under measurable control

• A culture of shared ownership – with environmental and operational accountability embedded across leadership, engineering and production teams
  
  

Why Attend?

This tour is designed for manufacturing leaders seeking transferable insight, not surface-level inspiration. Whether you are strengthening process discipline, navigating environmental compliance, or working towards ISO accreditation, this visit offers grounded, practical learning from a site operating at the highest levels of control.

Join us to see how a UK manufacturing facility became a global reference point for performance, discipline and environmental leadership.