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Category Archives: Manufacturing management
Students bid for schools engineering challenge title
Students from 13 Glasgow schools have put their design and build skills to the test in the BAE Systems Schools Engineering Challenge 2013. S2 pupils are taking part in a challenge to design and build model ships using paper, card, … Continue reading
Posted in Aerospace & defence, Education & Training, Manufacturing management
Tagged BAE Systems, BAE Systems Schools Engineering Challenge 2013, Bearsden Academy, Clydebank High School, Eastwood High School, Glasgow Gaelic School, Govan High School, Hermitage Academy, Loudres High School, Notre Dame High School, Port Glasgow High School, Queen Elizabeth Class aircraft carrier, Smithycroft Secondary School, St. Roch's Secondary School, University of Strathclyde Department of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering, Williamwood High School, Woodfarm High School
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New plant set to boost sales and create jobs
A £750,000 investment in a new glass beneficiation plant (pictured) is set to boost sales and create 10 new jobs at Middlesbrough-based Ward Recycling. The new plant will enable Ward, which employs 140 people across the UK, to boost sales … Continue reading
Debate on Europe ‘letting Britain down’ – EEF
Manufacturing bosses have hit out those who it says are “letting Britain down” by calling for a referendum on EU membership. The voice of the manufacturers’ organisation EEF, is calling on the Prime Minister to hold good his promise of … Continue reading
Record £440m funding for innovations agency
The Technology Strategy Board (TSB), the UK’s innovation agency, has been allocated a record £440 million budget which experts say will provide a boost to the UK’s long-term competitiveness. The funding boost, announced by Universities and Science Minister David Willetts, … Continue reading
Trade data confirms manufacturing is ‘finding its feet again’
The latest UK trade data showed that exports rose almost 5% in March, prompting suggestions that the manufacturing sector is “finding its feet again”. Official data showed the UK’s trade deficit falling slightly in March, down from £3.391bn in February … Continue reading
Posted in exports, Government/statistics, Manufacturing management
Tagged Markit, trade data
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Manufacturers call for safer gas supply
Energy-intensive manufacturers are calling for urgent Government intervention to protect industry from gas shortages, warning that UK supplies of gas have been running perilously low and that the consequences of this are harming firms and stifling employment. Organisations including the … Continue reading
UK auto sector puts rest of Europe in the shade
The UK automotive sector continues to defy gravity with new car registrations rising almost 15% in April and 9% (768,555 units) in the year so far – a performance that has put the rest of Europe in the shade. SMMT … Continue reading
Posted in Automotive, Government/statistics, Manufacturing management
Tagged Deloitte, SMMT
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New composite engineering skills framework to be led by new chairman
Semta, the sector skills body for science, engineering and advanced manufacturing, is today (8 May) launching a new ‘Composite Engineering Apprenticeship Framework’ and a change in the leadership of the group that will oversee its implementation. New strategy group chairman … Continue reading
