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...
Food & Drink

Food & Drink

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...
Factory-Built Housing

Factory-Built Housing

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...
Watchmaking

Watchmaking

TIME TO DELIVER Strategic machine tool partnership doubles capacity at watchmaker British luxury watch manufacturer Bremont made the most of Sandvik Coromant Capto® and DMG MORI’s strategic partnership as it introduced a turnkey manufacturing cell to double capacity...

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