The best in UK manufacturing: TMMX Awards 2016 shortlist announced
Posted on 17 Aug 2016 by Victoria Fitzgerald
The Manufacturer has revealed the shortlisted companies for this year’s prestigious TMMX Awards. Metalworking
Thermacore uses green-based growth to hit major targets
Posted on 16 Aug 2016 by The Manufacturer
Northumberland-based advanced manufacturing firm, Thermacore Europe, has used its lean and green approach to growth in order to reach a major milestone. Hyperloop One opens first manufacturing plant to help shape the future of transportation
Posted on 3 Aug 2016 by Aiden Burgess
High-speed transport pioneering firm, Hyperloop One, has opened its first manufacturing plant to help build and shape the future of high-speed transportation Welding and soldering market expected to grow
Posted on 1 Aug 2016 by The Manufacturer
Everywhere in the Western world, it seems as though, according to Oxford Economics modelling, that the construction industry is finally growing once again after the market worked its way back from the Global Financial Crisis. Is creating a Smart Factory part of your business strategy?
Posted on 27 Jul 2016 by Tim Brown
Connected devices, Smart Factory, Industry 4.0, Connected Factory, IoT, IIoT - there's a lot of buzz around these relatively new but basically interchangeable ideas. Cutting the cost of cleaning up nuclear waste
Posted on 27 Jul 2016 by Jonny Williamson
The Nuclear AMRC is working with Sellafield Ltd to cut the cost of making future designs of nuclear waste container boxes, potentially saving hundreds of millions of pounds in decommissioning costs. UK defence firm QinetiQ unveils new material to protect aircraft from impacts
Posted on 27 Jul 2016 by Aiden Burgess
UK multinational defence technology company, QinetiQ, has developed a rubbery material that could make aircraft structures three times more resistant to impacts such as bird and drone strikes. Trump makes shallow promise to revive US manufacturing in nomination speech
Posted on 22 Jul 2016 by Michael Cruickshank
US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has identified manufacturing and trade as key issues for his election campaign.
China wants to build a global power grid (GEI) worth $50tr
Posted on 18 Jul 2016 by Tim Brown
China has revealed an ambitious plan to build a $50+ trillion global power grid by 2050, which would be powered by renewable energy. GE Renewable Energy to ship first offshore wind turbine housings to the US
Posted on 13 Jul 2016 by Tim Brown
The GE Renewable Energy offshore wind turbine plant in Saint-Nazaire, France, will soon complete the manufacture of its first commercial series of Haliade Offshore wind turbine nacelles (housings).