The UK government has confirmed a ban on the supply of plastic straws starting next April. We spoke to the two leading paper straw makers supplying McDonald’s in the UK and Ireland.
According to statistics released last week from National Grid, Britain has now gone 114 continuous hours without burning coal to generate electricity, smashing the previous record of 90 hours. This is the longest period since the Industrial Revolution and is set to keep on rising.
A small company with a big vision is behind a revolutionary packaging system that is reducing the consumption of energy and material by food producers in the UK.
When it comes to adopting energy saving innovations, perceptions of risk mean there is often a race to be second. In choosing new technologies – especially those that require higher capital expenditure initially, businesses prefer to invest in something that is already tested and successful.
Vertical Farming is a new approach that could help solve the world’s escalating food chain crisis. And it is all made possible by data and lean manufacturing.
Tata Chemicals Europe has announced that it will operate a new energy from waste plant (EFW) at its Lostock manufacturing site in Northwich, Cheshire in a joint venture worth nearly half a billion pounds.
March has been a turbulent month for UK politics, despite this, British manufacturing has continued to innovate and negate any obstacles it has encountered. Here are The Manufacturer's top 20 most engaged features as Q1 2019 drew to a close.
Last year saw the UK’s CO2 emissions fall for the sixth consecutive year, according to Carbon Brief. This continued pattern marks the longest run of reduction since records began in 1850.
Sanjeev Gupta has been engineering a quiet revolution in the UK and global metals sector, while simultaneously building an integrated presence in automotive and aerospace supply chains that will position his Liberty House as a key player in both.
Manufacturers and environmental activists haven't always been natural bedfellows; but it's become clear that doing right by the environment is an absolute business imperative.
