Shipping company Hanjin files for bankruptcy
Posted on 7 Sep 2016 by Michael Cruickshank
South Korean shipping firm Hanjin Shipping – one of the world’s largest - has filed for bankruptcy.
Supply Chain
A full-service future for UK manufacturing
Posted on 7 Sep 2016 by The Manufacturer
Richard Hill looks at how innovative business models could boost business for UK manufacturers. Where does 3D printing lie within Industry 4.0?
Posted on 2 Sep 2016 by The Manufacturer
As 3D printing continues to make inroads from product design right through to the manufacturing floor, Dr Phil Reeves offers an insight into where the technology is making the biggest impact in the next industrial revolution. Warren East, Rolls-Royce: “Only the paranoid survive”
Posted on 1 Sep 2016 by The Manufacturer
Before the referendum vote, Rolls-Royce plc Chief Executive Warren East was uncompromising on the dangers of voting Leave. In a wide-ranging interview with Editor-at-Large Nick Peters, he now sets out his equally uncompromising post-Brexit terms of trade with the UK government, and tells companies in the RR supply chain to modernise, or risk being left behind. Apple EU Tax ruling says tech giant paid just 0.005% on EU profits
Posted on 31 Aug 2016 by Tim Brown
In 2012, Apple paid approximately $6bn in US Corporate Tax on a reported US pretax income of $19bn. This in the words of Apple CEO, Tim Cook, at a Senate subcommittee in Taxes, 30.5% or around 2.5% of the total Corporate Tax revenue raised in the US. Tesla SolarCity deal to allow houses to generate and store electricity
Posted on 31 Aug 2016 by Aiden Burgess
Tesla has received approval to acquire solar panel company SolarCity for $2.6bn, in a move which comes at a financial crossroads for a solar industry, which is facing the prospect of an oversupply of solar panels. SMAS: embedding a culture of continuous improvement
Posted on 24 Aug 2016 by The Manufacturer
Want to boost productivity and become more competitive? Nick Shields, director of the Scottish Manufacturing Advisory Service (SMAS), explains how Scotland’s new Business Improvement Academy can help. Grayson Thermal Systems cools off after award win
Posted on 23 Aug 2016 by Jonny Williamson
Leading air conditioning specialist, Grayson Thermal Systems has marked 15 years of supplying Thermo King by securing its prestigious ‘Dealer of the Year’ award. Audi commences transmission production in China
Posted on 23 Aug 2016 by Tim Brown
Audi, together with Volkswagen Automatic Transmission Tianjin (VWATJ), is expanding its activities in China with the European marque inaugurating a new transmission plant on Monday. Welsh advanced manufacturing growth outstrips rest of UK
Posted on 22 Aug 2016 by Jonny Williamson
Growth in the Welsh advanced manufacturing sector is significantly outpacing the rest of the UK, with 11% average annual growth in total turnover for companies based in Wales over the past three years compared to a 0.4% decrease for all such UK companies, according to Hugh James, a Top-100 law firm.