Category: Manufacturing

One of the manufacturing sector’s fastest growing recruitment firms is celebrating its 15th birthday in style after seeing revenue pass the £8m mark. MET Recruitment, which supplies thousands of industrial workers every year, has overcome the shackles of the pandemic and a rapidly diminishing candidate pool to win a string of new contracts. The company […]

Local technology consortium Smart Nano NI has launched a new accelerator programme led by Digital Catapult, the UK authority on advanced digital technology, to transform the manufacturing landscape across Northern Ireland. The Smart Manufacturing accelerator will provide an opportunity for manufacturers to learn about and experiment with emerging technologies, in a bid to improve efficiency and […]

Jean-Baptiste Souppez has been awarded a National Teaching Fellowship He is a senior teaching fellow in mechanical, biomedical and design engineering Jean-Baptiste has been recognised for his significant impact on student outcomes and the teaching profession in higher education. A senior teaching fellow at Aston University has been awarded a National Teaching Fellowship for his […]

Rhodes Interform, the UK manufacturer of hot and cold forming equipment for metals and composites, has secured a new contract with Cascade (UK) Limited to produce a bespoke twin press facility for forging forklift truck forks. Cascade UK is part of Cascade Corporation, a leading manufacturer of material handling products. Rhodes Interform will manufacture a […]

Lusso invests £100k in new technology to boost productivity, create new jobs and enter new global markets North West adoption programme backs 40-year-old firm with support and funding A cycle clothing manufacturer is gearing up for growth after investing £100,000 in new technology with the support of Made Smarter. Lusso, based in Radcliffe, Greater Manchester, […]

Uncover the intricacies of outsourcing manufacturing, navigate the potential risks associated with this business strategy, and discover invaluable tools designed to empower expanding manufacturers in maintaining optimal control over their production processes. The are a number of reasons why you should consider outsourced manufacturing. Some of the most valuable can be found below: Resource Redistribution: […]

A group of manufacturers committed to promoting UK industry is urging the Government to throw its weight behind a growing reshoring trend that has the potential to deliver £millions of new opportunities. Bosses at the Manufacturing Assembly Network (MAN), a collective of seven sub-contract manufacturers and an engineering design agency, believe the country has a […]

All staff at a leading manufacturer of round, flat and profile wire are now shareholders thanks to a recently completed Management Buy-out (MBO). Alloy Wire International (AWI), which has two sites in the West Midlands and Yorkshire, was purchased by Directors Tom Mander, Andrew Du Plessis and Adam Shaw in January, with the new management […]

A North Staffordshire manufacturer of household and vehicle cleaning products is pressing the button on an ambitious investment drive. Future Developments (Manufacturing), which has blended and made chemicals that go into more than 1500 different products, is spending over £500,000 on creating an additional 15,000 sq ft production facility at its Davenport Street home in […]

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 […]