Each day The Manufacturer compiles the top manufacturing news stories from around the web. To make your life a little easier, we trawl through all the major trade publications, broadsheets and business magazines to find you the most important manufacturing news each morning. Don't forget to bookmark this page and check back daily.
UK Manufacturing PMI: production contracts at faster pace as new orders decline at sharpest rate for 19 months
The UK manufacturing sector continued its downturn in March, falling to a 17-month low of 44.9. Business optimism is now at its weakest level since November 2022 due to steeper drops in output, new orders and new export business. More via The Manufacturer
Manufacturing jobs at risk on Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’
US President Donald Trump has labelled today (April 2) as “Liberation Day”, as he looks set to reveal the full extent of his plans for import tariffs. This is expected to include a 25% tariff on all US car imports, a move which is expected to put around 25,000 UK automotive jobs at risk. More via The Manufacturer
The importance of supply chain partnerships
A manufacturing supply chain incorporates a variety (hundreds in some cases), of companies and organisations that all have a role to play in ensuring that a product is manufactured and delivered to the end user. In the modern manufacturing world this has made supply chain partnerships increasingly key. More via The Manufacturer
£400,000 apprenticeship investment helps Brandauer plan for the future
The boss of a leading metal pressings and tooling specialist has hailed the power of apprenticeships after reducing the average age of his workforce to just 44. Rowan Crozier, CEO of Brandauer, has steered the company to invest more than £400,000 into vocational learning since 2016 and this has seen the firm create toolmakers, engineers, quality specialists and experts in logistics. More via The Manufacturer
ARCHIVES: Professor Mike Capaldi, DER-IC
In this episode of The Manufacturer Archives, we feature Professor Mike Capaldi, Chair of Driving the Electric Revolution Industrialisation Centres. (DER-IC) He discusses the need to place Power Electronics, Machines and Drives (PEMD) at the heart of the UK’s green energy strategy, and tells us what DER-IC’s role will be in that process. More via The Manufacturer
