Category: Latest News

The Engineering Construction Industry Training Board (ECITB) Awarding Body is inviting colleges and training providers in England to deliver a new regulated qualification it has launched. The Level 2 Certificate in Supporting Engineering Construction Operations prepares candidates for employment as support operatives. The qualification is designed to be completed in its entirety within a college […]

The design power of Onshape is helping a UK collaboration find a faster solution to harvesting seagrass meadows. Conservation charity Project Seagrass and Tandem Ventures have joined forces to design, develop, build and test a new automated underwater harvester that will cut and collect seagrass seed pods. This process – traditionally carried out manually by […]

Commenting on his predictions for 2026, Chris Clowes, executive director at global supply chain and logistics consultancy, SCALA, said: “As we look ahead to 2026, one of the biggest shifts facing supply chain leaders will be how AI, automation and data-driven tools are transforming the nature of our work at every level. The impact it’s […]

Sandvik Coromant’s CoroDrill® DE10 helps Sunfab strengthen production efficiency while maintaining high standards of hydraulic quality. “To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often,” spoke Winston Churchill in 1925. Over 873 miles away, in the same year, Eric Sundin founded Sunfab under a similar philosophy. Innovation, expertise and an appetite for […]

Scottish thermal energy storage company Sunamp has partnered with Jiangsu Gomon New Energy Technology Co. Ltd. to launch the China-UK Companies Phase Change Thermal Storage Technology Innovation Center and begin production of heat batteries for domestic hot water to the Asia Pacific market. The facility introduces Sunamp’s pioneering and patented Plentigrade® PCM technology to China, […]

An exclusive range of copper pans has been created as a collaboration between UK manufacturers bearing the internationally recognised Made in Britain trademark. The Heritage Excell Copper Cookware Collection is entirely crafted in Britain. Every element of its creation, from the hand-spun metal bases through to the leather handle inlays and packaging box with tissue […]

Point S International’s inaugural Next Generation Campus has delivered a strategic response to one of the automotive industry’s most pressing challenges: a critical leadership and succession planning crisis that sees only 30% of family businesses survive into the second generation. The three-and-a-half-day immersive programme, held in Provence, France, brought together nearly 70 young professionals from […]

A new study of manufacturers – from all sectors of industry – has revealed a huge call for National Insurance contributions (NICs) and the employee rights bill to be reversed ahead of this week’s budget. 88% of the companies questioned by personalised workwear specialist MyWorkwear would like to see a U-turn by the Chancellor, with […]

The UK’s last remaining producer of flat rolled aluminium coils is calling for ‘certainty’, urgent help to mitigate rising energy prices and immediate industrial support ahead of the Chancellor’s Budget next week. Bridgnorth Aluminium, which employs over 300 people at its extensive production facility in Shropshire, believes the metals and manufacturing sectors also need to […]