Workforce and skills

Students at Perryfields High School Maths and Computing College celebrating their exam results, image courtesy of Sandwell Council

A-level results prove positive for manufacturing

SSC Laser graduate Conor Mullen

New recruits shine brightly at SSC Laser

A return to British soil for laundry egg company

Wrexham, image courtesy of Christopher Owen Jones

Optical lens company to streamline their UK workforce

David Rawlinson addressing the Hill Dickinson conference in March.

Manufacturing skills for the future

Engineering a way to smash glass ceilings

Blast furnace number five at Tata Steel's Port Talbot works.

Tata fined £500,000 for employee death

Apprentices at Nestle's Dalston plant.

Semta smashes high level apprenticeship take up target

Cardiovascular disease in hospital. Photography by Francis Bijl

Cardiovascular disease cases highest in the manufacturing sector

Premier Interlink Factory - overhead cranes

Manufacturers fearful of labour costs as uncertainty takes hold

15% drop in pension saving since 2007