World-leading research and technology organisation, the Manufacturing Technology Centre is expanding its reach into the North in a move expected to create more than 40 highly skilled jobs.
A £30m funding grant has been announced to help drive electrification supply chains in key UK manufacturing sectors and achieve net zero emissions by 2050.
Despite challenging global trading conditions, more than eight in 10 manufacturers (81%) said they exported goods between July and September, the second highest-percentage since 2005.
A new study has revealed that investment in R&D within the aerospace industry helped to generate £10bn of wider economic benefits to the UK in 2017 alone.
Less than one-quarter (22%) of UK energy managers working in manufacturing say hitting sustainability targets is their number one business priority, according to new data.
New research shows that 64% of manufacturers have taken a financial hit during the past two years as they struggle to prepare for an unknown trading environment post-Brexit, and almost half have already seen a negative change in EU customer/supplier appetite for doing business with them.
Small and medium businesses in the UK are estimated to have lost 5.6% of business time per year to admin, equating to £40bn of lost economic value in the past 12 months.
Innovative businesses creating green alternatives to plastic bottles, cosmetic beads and synthetic materials are being backed by new funding from the government and Sky. Simon Edmonds reports on these and on new funding opportunities for UK manufacturers.
Over the past 10 years, the issue of stagnating UK productivity has grown to seem almost unstoppable. Each multifactor release from the Office of National Statistics (ONS) offers few signs of hope — to the point that no individual solution seems sufficient to tackle such an overwhelming problem.
Terry Scuoler CBE has played a leading role in Britain’s manufacturing sector for several decades. Following long and successful stints at BAE Systems and Ferranti Technologies, Scuoler was chief executive of Make UK (formerly EEF) from 2010 until 2017 and is currently the chairman of the Institute of Export & International Trade.
