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UK manufacturing

  • Thursday, 3 October, 2024
    Electric vehicles
    UK drivers have ‘no fiscal incentive’ to buy EVs, warn carmakers

    Industry calls for tax cuts to boost market in open letter to chancellor Rachel Reeves

    Visitors attend on the first day of the Everything Electric North Show
  • Wednesday, 18 September, 2024
    British Steel Ltd
    British Steel reveals losses deepened eightfold

    Concerns mount about future of Chinese-owned company that employs thousands in UK

    British Steel’s site in Scunthorpe
  • Tuesday, 17 September, 2024
    Brompton Bicycle
    Brompton tackles tougher terrain with first bike on bigger wheels

    UK fold-up specialist breaks with hyper-compact 16-inch format to add off-road model

    A woman standing next to a fold-up bike
  • Friday, 13 September, 2024
    John Gapper
    Rolls-Royce is on a smoother flight path at last

    The UK aircraft engine manufacturer is starting to live up to its distinguished name

    Rolls Royce jet engine and logo
  • Thursday, 12 September, 2024
    News in-depth
    Is there a future for steelmaking in the UK?

    Tata Steel plans to replace its Port Talbot blast furnaces with a less-polluting electric arc furnace

    Port Talbot steel works
  • Wednesday, 11 September, 2024
    Tata Steel Ltd
    Tata secures £500mn of state aid for UK’s largest steelworks

    About 2,500 jobs to be lost in shift to greener furnace at south Wales site

    A Tata Steel worker at the blast furnace in Port Talbot
  • Tuesday, 10 September, 2024
    Tata Group
    Tata ‘very close’ to securing £500mn of state aid for UK’s largest steelmaking plant

    Chair of Indian parent company says talks with the British government are ‘going well’

  • Friday, 6 September, 2024
    British Steel Ltd
    British Steel owner preparing to bring forward blast furnace closures

    Move by Jingye is expected before Christmas and would put at risk thousands of jobs

    Steelworker watches a furnace
  • Monday, 2 September, 2024
    Industrials
    The four-wheel cargo bike makers seeking to oust vans from cities

    A five-year-old sector is seeking to overcome reliability challenges to transform deliveries

    EAV chief Chris Temple with a four-wheel cargo bike
  • Thursday, 22 August, 2024
    AstraZeneca PLC
    AstraZeneca threatens to move UK vaccine manufacturing to US

    British pharmaceutical company unhappy at chancellor Rachel Reeves’ plan to cut state aid for project

    The exterior of the AstraZeneca factory in Speke, Liverpool, is shown on a sunny day. The factory building is white with the AstraZeneca logo prominently displayed. There is a fence with signs, including one that directs deliveries to a specific gate and another that prohibits U-turns for safety reasons. The area is landscaped with green grass, trees, and bushes
  • Sunday, 4 August, 2024
    Rolls-Royce Holdings PLC
    Can the Rolls-Royce rally continue?

    Erginbilgiç targets post-2027 growth in bid to turn FTSE 100 engineer around for the long-haul

    Rolls-Royce boss Tufan Erginbilgiç
  • Thursday, 1 August, 2024
    Rolls-Royce Holdings PLC
    Rolls-Royce shares surge to record high as dividend reinstated

    UK engineering group also lifts profit forecast as recovery under chief executive Tufan Erginbilgiç takes hold

    A model of the Rolls-Royce UltraFan
  • Thursday, 11 July, 2024
    Brompton Bicycle
    Brompton boss says decision to shun private equity helped weather downturn

    Britain’s largest bicycle maker wanted long-term investors to help it pay down debt rather than increase leverage

    A cyclist rides on a Brompton bicycle during a group ride in Beijing
  • Thursday, 11 July, 2024
    Harland & Wolff crisis is first test of Labour’s industrial policy

    Ministers face whack-a-mole task with industrial job losses across UK

    Harland & Wolff Samson and Goliath yellow gantry cranes
  • Tuesday, 9 July, 2024
    Dyson James Group Ltd
    Dyson to cut a quarter of UK workforce

    Vacuum cleaner maker moves to axe 1,000 jobs as part of global restructuring

    An employee displays a 3D printed version of the Dyson DC24 vacuum cleane
  • Sunday, 7 July, 2024
    Labour to seek ‘job guarantees’ in Tata Steel negotiations

    Business secretary reveals he has already spoken to Britain’s biggest steelmaker about Port Talbot plant

    Blast furnaces at Port Talbot steelworks
  • Tuesday, 25 June, 2024
    Stellantis
    Stellantis threatens to halt UK production over EV targets

    Vauxhall owner could move production to other sites in Europe, as government quotas threaten returns

    Maria Grazia Davino
  • Sunday, 9 June, 2024
    Labour party UK
    Labour to pledge better deal for Port Talbot steelworks

    Up to 2,800 jobs imperilled as owner Tata shifts to less carbon-intensive electric arc furnace

    Tata Steel’s Port Talbot steelworks in south Wales
  • Monday, 3 June, 2024
    Melrose Industries PLC
    Former Melrose executives take major share of £180mn bonus pot

    Ex-chief executive, vice chair and CFO receive shares after four-year incentive scheme ended in May

    Former finance director Geoffrey Martin, Christopher Miller, previously vice-chair of the company, and ex-chief executive Simon Peckham
  • Sunday, 2 June, 2024
    Number of UK grads opting for professional services is policy ‘failure’, says ex-Shell CEO

    Peter Voser says university leavers let down by education system and governments that have neglected manufacturing

    Peter Voser
  • Thursday, 25 April, 2024
    Commodities
    Unions vow to fight on as Tata Steel confirms plans to close blast furnaces

    Decision will result in up to 2,800 job losses at Britain’s biggest producer of the commodity

    Tata Steel’s site in Port Talbot, Wales
  • Wednesday, 24 April, 2024
    ReviewStyle
    Knitwear label John Smedley wants to bring manufacturing home

    By opening up its factory to third parties, the British heritage brand hopes to encourage domestic production

  • Saturday, 20 April, 2024
    Fears grow for British Steel’s rescue deal

    UK struggling to reach state aid agreement with Chinese-owned company 18 months after plea for £500mn support package

    British Steel’s site in Scunthorpe
  • Tuesday, 16 April, 2024
    Alstom close to securing new train order for UK plant

    French manufacturer nears deal with British government that could prevent job losses at Derby factory

    Train carriages in the yard of the Alstom train manufacturing facility in Derby
  • Thursday, 11 April, 2024
    Tata Steel Ltd
    Tata Steel workers vote to strike over Port Talbot blast furnace closures

    Unite says 1,500 of its members have backed industrial action over Indian steelmaker’s plan for south Wales operations

    A protest by Unite members in London in January
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