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The event was designed to help manufacturing SMEs export their goods and to showcase some success stories.
Mr Brown also came in for criticism from two of Britain's biggest trade unions, Amicus and the Transport & General Workers Union, for his failure to help manufacturing industry.
Michael Mulholland, regional officer of the GMB union, called on the executive to hold a high-level meeting to see what can be done to help manufacturing.
Business secretary Lord Mandelson, who has spearheaded the government's new, more interventionist approach, told the Observer that the Conservatives "wouldn't lift a single finger" to help manufacturing.
The others include $30 million in new matching grants to states for training programs designed to help manufacturing workers keep up with changing technology.
Mandelson's new heft was evident in a series of interventions he made to help manufacturing in the election run-up, including the £80m loan to enable Sheffield Forgemasters to produce specialist steel for the nuclear sector.
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As soon as the blue-eyed boy unfortunately played truant, you got people turning around and saying, 'Manufacturing will help us out of this particular hole,' but nothing came along to actually help manufacturing achieve that".
Cooperative acting and communicating in project teams by using distributed applications and knowledge resources could help manufacturing companies to be competitive.
That has helped manufacturing growth to rise to 7% a year.
Last month President Obama traveled to Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh to unveil a $500 million effort to create advanced robotic technologies needed to help bring manufacturing back to the United States.
He would try to end tax breaks for companies that send jobs overseas, and says he would "take a step back from free-trade deals" to examine how best to help American manufacturing.
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