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		<title>TR Fastenings celebrates 40th birthday</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 07:14:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jane Gray</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[TR Fastenings supplies around 150 million components to customers worldwide every day. It has seven global manufacturing centres in Asia and the UK and 500 assembly sites around the world. The multi-million pound business has ]]></description>
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		<title>New training and mentoring for UK SME exporters</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 06:53:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jane Gray</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The announcement was made during  UK Trade and Investment’s Export Week – a series of educational events and celebrations of UK export success. George Osborne, Chancellor of the Exchequer, made the announcement on the behalf ]]></description>
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		<title>April rebound in UK car manufacturing</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 06:07:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jane Gray</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Over 110,000 cars were manufactured in April 2013 compared to 94,352 in April 2012. This represents an 16.6% rise in production compared to last year. The rebound has been welcomed by SMMT following a relatively ]]></description>
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		<title>Birmingham packaging firm celebrates its centenary</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 14:42:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Pozzi</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Having started out in the city in 1913, the provider of bespoke timber and corrugated transit packaging products and services is now in its fourth generation of family ownership. Nicklin will invest in IT, automation, machinery ]]></description>
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		<title>Unipart announces Google linkup</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 11:27:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Pozzi</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The company confirmed 4,500 employees will have anytime, anywhere access to a wide range of online collaborative tools which include Google Docs, Gmail, Sites, Calendar, Google Talk and Google Drive. Unipart recently introduced its integrated business system, The Unipart ]]></description>
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		<title>McLaren F1 to use Honda engines from start of 2015</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 09:23:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Brown</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The announcement made today not only heralds Honda’s decision to take on the challenge of Formula 1 after a six-season absence, but also signals the reappearance of Honda turbo power in grand prix racing. Honda ]]></description>
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		<title>UK powers ahead as world&#8217;s biggest exporter of generators</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 08:32:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Brown</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Diesel gensets are often used as backup or emergency power when the mains system fails, or to provide energy in remote areas off-grid. The UK has 19% of the electric generator export market – more ]]></description>
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		<title>EC launches probe into allegations BP and Shell fixed oil price</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 08:05:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Brown</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[On Tuesday, May 14, European Commission officials carried out unannounced inspections at the premises of several companies active in the oil and biofuels sectors, including BP, Shell and Statoil. The Commission has concerns that the ]]></description>
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		<title>Boeing announces new UK jobs</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 07:43:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Brown</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The company employs 1,300 people across numerous sites in the UK and is looking to fill a range of positions in Bristol,  Gatwick, Gosport and London. Boeing offers a number of career paths to pursue, primarily ]]></description>
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		<title>Improved productivity: 5 things to focus on</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 10:03:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Brown</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[And what do we mean by ‘improving productivity’? Quite simply: doing more, with less. In short, input versus output. Put like that, it’s not rocket science. But in our view, manufacturers often over-complicate their search ]]></description>
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