Textiles

Textiles

CHALLENGES AND PROMISES 2019 has been a challenging year for UK textile manufacturing, but the outlook is promising, provided that some key issues can be addressed.BY KATE HILLS  Following a significant decline in textile manufacturing in the UK since the late 1980s,...
Packaging Machinery

Packaging Machinery

INNOVATIONS IN PLASTIC PACKAGING During 2019, the entire plastics family of materials and its most common usage, packaging, has been the subject of many miles of column inches, campaigns, tweets and even a television series or two. Entire communities have made public...
Steel

Steel

GOVERNMENT MUST PULL ALL THE LEVERS IT CAN TO GIVE UK STEEL A FIGHTING CHANCE  Steelmakers face a horror show list of pressures, from global overcapacity and uncompetitive energy prices to Brexit. Little wonder Tata Steel’s pan-European job cull last year included its...
Automation & Robots

Automation & Robots

DESKTOPS, VFD PRODUCTION, PIPES AND BEER  AUTOMATION CASE STUDIES IN 2019  DEMOCRATISING ROBOTICS  Automata has brought a whole new category of affordable industrial robots to market with Eva – the first ever desktop robot engineered from the ground up to be...

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