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Daily life depends on
critical supply chains

Welcome to our alliance of companies and professionals working together to strengthen critical supply chains.

3100
+
Companies
13
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Sectors
5
Countries

If you're a supply chain, procurement or commercial professional working with critical infrastructure – sign up for free to join the Critical Supply Group (CSG).

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About CSG

 

We are the leading group for companies and professionals committed to secure and resilient critical supply chains, in the UK and internationally.

Connect

Connect

We connect buyers, suppliers, service providers and stakeholders across sectors, industries and borders.

Collaborate

Collaborate

We convert networking and relationships into collaboration, projects and impact.

Inform

Inform

We share news, information and insights for companies and professionals working on critical supply chains.

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CSG focuses on the supply chains that enable Critical National Infrastructure (CNI) to function, and therefore underpin a country’s national security, resilience to shocks and sustainable economic growth.

Further, in line with UK government definitions, we view resilience as the ability to anticipate, assess, prevent, mitigate, respond to, and recover from natural hazards, deliberate attacks, geopolitical instability, disease outbreaks, and other disruptive events, civil emergencies or threats to our way of life.

The group is business-led, cross​-sector and multi-stakeholder. Through collaboration, it now has reach to 3,100+ companies in multiple countries, across 13 CNI sectors.

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Critical Supply Chains

Critical National Infrastructure (CNI) is defined as those facilities, systems, sites, information, people, networks and processes, necessary for a country to function and upon which daily life depends.

CNI falls across 13 sectors:

Chemicals
Chemicals

The chemical sector is a diverse manufacturing sector of which the primary activity is the conversion of raw materials into essential products for other sectors and consumers.

The sector routinely stores, uses and manufactures hazardous chemicals such as fertilizers, pesticides, and explosive pre-cursors in accordance with extensive regulatory requirements.

Civil Nuclear
Civil Nuclear

The civil nuclear sector is involved in the generation of electricity through nuclear reaction. It involves the construction, operation, and decommissioning of nuclear power plants.

Nuclear powered electricity generation is expected to increase significantly in the UK as we move away from fossil fuel-generated electricity. As the sector grows, including the building of Small Modular Reactors (SMRs), the civil nuclear sector will become an increasingly important CNI sector requiring robust protective security.

Communications
Communications

The communications sector consists of four sub sectors:

Telecommunications – wired, wireless and satellite communications infrastructure such as that which supports internet connectivity and mobile phone network coverage.

Data centres – used to store and process much of the data generated in the UK, ranging from that belonging to individuals to data and processing which underpins other CNI sectors.

Broadcast – the infrastructure underpinning television and radio transmission, including that used for emergency broadcasts.

Postal services – includes postal, courier and delivery services.

Chemicals
Chemicals
Civil Nuclear
Civil Nuclear
Communications
Communications
Defence
Defence
Emergency Services
Emergency Services
Energy
Energy
Finance
Finance
Food
Food
Government
Government
Health
Health
Space
Space
Transport
Transport
Water
Water
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CSG’s international priorities and relationships currently focus on:

Europe

USA

Canada

Australia

New Zealand

Japan

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If you're a supply chain, procurement or commercial professional working with critical infrastructure – sign up for free to join the Critical Supply Group (CSG).

Strategic Partners

MAP UK & International

MAP advises, informs and connects: buyers, suppliers, investors and stakeholders.  We work with SMEs, multinationals, not-for-profits and governments.

Focused on resilience, sustainability and growth, we offer Supply Chain and International Trade solutions in the UK and around the world.  MAP is a UK registered company, based in London, operating with a global network of Associates and Partners.

Made in Britain 

Introduced ten years ago, the Made in Britain trademark is today used by more than 2,100 UK manufacturing companies (95% SMEs), across the four nations of the UK.  The trademark is recognised by 8 in 10 British businesses and 50% of consumers.  Made in Britain is an independent, not-for-profit organisation, registered in the UK.

Wilton Park

Wilton Park is the UK government’s expert in convening international policy dialogue. It supports UK foreign policy development and the UK government’s international strategic priorities. Wilton Park holds around 80 strategic dialogues each year, which convene around 3,500 representatives and opinion formers, representing over 120 countries.

Wilton Park is an executive agency, sponsored by the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office.