Food and beverage brands are under constant pressure to reduce waste and improve the recyclability of their product packaging. Today, many global brands have taken steps to switch packaging to easily recycled mono materials, remove colours and additives, and reduce the number of parts in a piece of packaging – all in a bid to […]
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Within the industry, there is often an assumption made when individuals say they work in engineering. People automatically assume this is on a building site or within construction. However, evidentially this isn’t always the case. With misconceptions around the sector still present and young girls often unaware of the available career routes, it’s clear the […]
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Cambridge-based BiologIC Technologies is helping pharmaceutical manufacturers support from Analysis for Innovators (A4I) programme R&D partnership with National Measurement Laboratory (NML) accelerates product development by several years An Innovate UK-backed biotech company has achieved a pioneering biocomputer breakthrough which is accelerating the development and manufacture of cheaper drugs and vaccines. BiologIC Technologies, inventor of the […]
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Ahead of International Women in Engineering Day on 23 June, Ovarro’s new technology leader for leakage solutions, Barbara Hathaway, discusses her career and gives words of advice for aspiring engineers What led you to engineering? My father was a physics teacher, who encouraged me and my two older brothers to consider how things worked. We […]
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Manufacturing’s growth is being hamstrung by an out-of-date Apprenticeship Levy scheme that is failing to address key labour shortages in the workforce. Rachel Eade MBE, Chair of the UK Metals Council, is calling on the Government to review the current system, tearing up the unnecessary bureaucracy and ensuring that entry level apprenticeships benefit from the […]
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Major works to enhance the productivity and efficiency of a local manufacturing firm have been completed thanks to significant investment from its parent company. Hampshire-based Wessex Galvanizers Ltd, part of Wedge Group Galvanizing, has seen major improvements to its new processing line, with a new degrease tank, acid tanks and water rinse system installed, as […]
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One of the UK’s leading packaging experts has invested more than £200,000 into launching a new premier logistics offer that goes beyond the usual delivery of items across Europe and the UK. Nuneaton’s Lesters Logistics, which is part of the Burntwood-based Lesters Group, is now offering new and existing clients access to its ‘Signature Logistics’ […]
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Keeping industry in motion with reliable and efficient power sources is a key requirement as is the increasing demand for improving energy efficiency across all manufacturing processes. Regenerative drive solutions are playing an important role in the quest for ‘Greener Energy’ alternatives and Drives, Motors and Control specialist YASKAWA have developed an impressive range of […]
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Two weeks before the UK entered lockdown in 2020, Sarah Stephens, Managing Director of ASG TGM took possession of a new large bed Zimmermann 5 axis CNC machine; a significant investment for the firm at £1.3m. Less than fourteen days later the manufacturing supply chain was sent into turmoil, firms were sending workers home, major […]
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With the labour pool for UK warehousing running dry, it is time growing warehouse operations look to mobile robots to share the work, explains Frazer Watson, VP-Sales UK/Ireland at iFollow. Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMRs) offer one of the more cost effective and flexible automation solutions to enable logistics operations to optimise their labour force. This […]
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