Rising energy costs, cost of living going up, war, Government wranglings… what is there to be positive about I hear you ask! Scratch under the surface of main-stream media and there is a wealth of positive news, surrounding engineering and manufacturing. Some are of the opinion that Great Britain doesn’t make anything – that couldn’t be farther from the truth. Look at some recent articles below which well and truly prove otherwise! Britishvolt, Siemens, Johnson Matthey, Moog, Ciner, Forterra, Knauf, Envision AESC, Ball Corporation, Crown, Swizzels Matlow, Pensana, SeAH Wind, Stannah, ITM Power and Rolls-Royce are just some of the manufacturers building new factories in the UK.
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Efficiency, Resilience & Environmental Sustainability
The £147 million investment, matched by a minimum of £147 million from industry, aims to deliver a resilient, flexible, more productive, and environmentally sustainable UK manufacturing sector. The challenge will support collaborations between UK manufacturing sectors to create innovative digital solutions.
Businesses with creative ideas to boost the UK’s manufacturing capabilities, including using robotics, AI and augmented reality, are set to receive £300m of joint government and industry funding.
New that bolsters the fact that the UK is looking toward the future.
Digger giant JCB is taking on 200 new North Staffordshire workers to help ‘fuel record growth’
The Rocester-based company – which employs 8,000 staff – is looking for assembly line workers, fork lift truck drivers, machine operators, and welders. They will work at JCB sites in Cheadle, Uttoxeter, and at the firm’s headquarters in Rocester.
The new recruits will be agency workers but, in the recent past, the company has converted 850 agency roles into permanent staff. It comes as JCB admits that it has been challenging to find workers during a period of record employment in the UK.
Group HR Director Max Jeffrey said: “JCB has enjoyed another record year. Achieving that record growth means that we have to find a record number of people to fuel this growth not only in the UK but all over the world.”
£6 million Tata Steel Trostre plant investment leads to record-breaking performance
£6million investment to upgrade Tata Steel’s Trostre plant in Llanelli with the very latest cutting-edge technology, is already paying dividends with record-breaking performances.
The investment has been made in the site’s Continuous Annealing Process Line (CAPL), which softens the strip steels before they go on to be made into cans for food, pet food, aerosols and paint.
Works Manager, Joe Gallacher, said: “This is one of the biggest single investments in Trostre in recent years and allows us to run the line faster and for longer, removing a key bottleneck at the plant.
BAE Systems to hire 1,000 engineers to help develop new fighter jet
BAE Systems has announced plans to recruit 1,000 engineers to help develop the new Tempest fighter jet.
The majority of the roles will be based in Samlesbury and Warton in Lancashire, while others will be hired in Brough, East Yorkshire, and Prestwick, South Ayrshire, over the next 12 months.
The new staff will also help upgrade the Typhoon and work on future plans.
BAE said it was looking for “diverse recruits” including people from the software and gaming industries.
Ford Motor Company has announced plans to invest a further £125 million at its Halewood factory, securing more than 500 jobs.
The extra funding will be put towards increasing the plant’s annual production of electric power units by 70% to 420,000.
The units will power Ford E-Transit Custom, E-Tourneo Custom, Transit Courier, Tourneo Courier, Puma and further future vehicles. Halewood’s electric power units will be in 70% of Ford EVs sold in Europe by 2026.
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Story by Bruderer UK.
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