Neil Burns is a founder and co-director of Croft Filters Limited and Croft Additive Manufacturing Limited, Warrington, United Kingdom and has more than 34 years’ experience developing and delivering high quality filtration solutions to a range of industries in the UK and worldwide. His engineering experience began with wire mesh fabrication and along with brother Mark Burns they formed Croft Engineering Services, originally mesh suppliers. Their engineering abilities took them along the natural progression path to filter manufacturing. Neil’s role is very diverse and covers all commercial aspects and product development. Neil and fellow Directors recognised the potential of additive manufacturing for innovation in filter media designs and they invested in metal powder bed AM. At Croft, novel AM filter media designs are created that add value through design features that create more efficient filtration. In addition Croft supply AM components to many industrial sectors. Neil gained his MBA from the University of Liverpool in 2012 and an MSc by Research at Lancaster University in 2019. Neil is the Past-Chairman of the Filtration Society, UK and is a Committee Member of ASTM Standards Board (USA) and a Committee Member, ISS Standards Board (UK).