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RS research reveals innovation-execution gap at the heart of UK manufacturing

How food and drink manufacturers can avoid a half-baked tech transformation

How food and drink manufacturers can avoid a half-baked tech transformation

Art in Manufacturing Festival poised to take over Blackburn

Art in Manufacturing poised to take over Blackburn

Apiject to open new U.S generic injectable drug manufacturing facility in Apex, North Carolina

UK pharmaceutical receives £1.9m Innovate UK injection

SpaceX's Falcon Heavy launches from Florida. Image courtesy of SpaceX.

Falcon Heavy launch represents new era for rocket manufacturing

Ardagh is one of the UK’s, and world’s, largest glass and metal packaging producers - image courtesy of Ardagh

£50m Glass Futures project to make UK world leader

The new £4m nano-manufacturing facility is to produce electronics for future industrial products - image courtesy of Surrey Uni.

University of Surrey to open £4m nano-manufacturing hub

The new 100,000-unit capacity production facility in Oxford is expected to support 150 high-skilled jobs – image courtesy of YASA.

UK electric motor manufacturer, YASA, opens new Oxford plant

Heathcoat Fabrics has completed a £3m worth of renewable energy installations across its UK-based factory - image courtesy of Depositphotos.

UK textile manufacturer invests £3m in renewable energy

UK biotech company IPOs are raising more than twice as much money in 2017 than in 2016 - image courtesy of Depositphotos.

UK biotech IPO activity doubled in 2017

Santander has provided an invoice financing facility to ensure that supplier payments are processed quickly - image courtesy of shutterstock.

Innovation opportunities in 2018

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Vienna Uni has developed a tiny electric field sensor for measuring the strength of electric fields - image courtesy of Vienna TU.

Vienna Uni develops silicon-based electric field sensor

Coca-Cola announced that food and drinks packaging is a significant part of a worldwide problem - image courtesy of Depositphotos.

Coca-Cola sets sustainable packaging goals