by Nuno Caldeira-Pereira | Jan 19, 2020 | Sectors, Sectors 2019
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,...
by Nuno Caldeira-Pereira | Jan 19, 2020 | Sectors, Sectors 2019
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...
by Nuno Caldeira-Pereira | Jan 19, 2020 | Sectors, Sectors 2019
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...
by Nuno Caldeira-Pereira | Jan 11, 2020 | Sectors, Sectors 2019
BURSTING WITH INNOVATIVE GOODNESS Maybe Roald Dahl is the inspiration. The children’s author seduced a generation of British children with Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and his sweets, like Wonka’s Whipple-Scrumptious Fudgemallow Delight and the Everlasting...
by Nuno Caldeira-Pereira | Jan 8, 2020 | Sectors, Sectors 2019
FACTORY-BUILT HOUSING SECTOR MUST PROVE IT HAS FOUR WALLS AND A ROOF 2020 will be the make or break year for factory-built housingBY DENISE CHEVIN Optimism has grown in the past 12-months that housing’s Cinderella – offsite building manufacture – is poised to...
by Nuno Caldeira-Pereira | Jan 5, 2020 | Sectors, Sectors 2019
MIXED SHIPPING While UK shipbuilding continues to descend into the doldrums, production and profits remain on a strong upward trajectory for British yards designing and building small craft and luxury superyachts. Dennis O’Neill For centuries the United Kingdom has...
