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UK manufacturing

  • Thursday, 2 January, 2025
    Brompton Bicycle
    Brompton profits almost wiped out after lower UK and Europe sales

    British folding bike specialist cites economic headwinds and sector’s challenges as earnings drop below £5,000

    An employee inspecting a Brompton bike at Brompton’s factory in London, England
  • Thursday, 2 January, 2025
    Automobiles
    Job losses at Europe’s car parts suppliers soar as vehicle market slows

    Falling sales growth and excess capacity have led to sector pain that the EV transition is not easing

    Picket line at a Michelin tyre plant in France
  • Tuesday, 17 December, 2024
    UK industrial strategy
    Former Tory minister Clark joins Labour’s industrial strategy council

    Advisers also include John Kingman and Shriti Vadera

    Greg Clark
  • Monday, 16 December, 2024
    UK economy
    UK manufacturing confidence slumps after Reeves’ Budget

    Data from Make UK complicates picture for BoE rate-setters as they contemplate how quickly to cut interest rates

    A welder works on a bicycle frame
  • Wednesday, 4 December, 2024
    Tata Steel Ltd
    Tata Steel UK losses jump fourfold

    Indian-owned group takes £1.12bn hit after writing down value of legacy assets

    Tata Steel’s Port Talbot site in Wales
  • Tuesday, 26 November, 2024
    Stellantis
    Vauxhall owner Stellantis blames EV rules for plan to close UK van factory

    About 1,100 jobs at risk as carmaker says government mandate played a ‘significant role’

    The Vauxhall plant in Luton
  • Thursday, 21 November, 2024
    UK ministers resist car industry pressure to ease fines on EV sales targets

    Amid pressure on manufacturers, electric vehicle sector holds two-hour meeting with cabinet ministers on mandate

    Transport secretary Louise Haigh
  • Sunday, 17 November, 2024
    UK government considers ‘flexibilities’ to help carmakers hit EV targets

    Transport secretary Louise Haigh says she is in ‘listening mode’ about manufacturers’ challenges

    An employee works on a Nissan Qashqai car on a production line
  • Saturday, 16 November, 2024
    Nissan Motor Co Ltd
    Nissan to warn jobs at risk as UK EV targets push car industry to ‘crisis point’

    Carmakers fear goals unreachable as consumer demand softens

    Nissan’s Sunderland car plant
  • Wednesday, 13 November, 2024
    News in-depthUK business
    The race to shape UK industrial strategy

    Business leaders and regional mayors try to influence government’s flagship economic growth policy

    Montage image of a Bentley factory in Crewe; Rolls Royce factory Derby; Astra Zeneca vaccine
  • Wednesday, 13 November, 2024
    FT CollectionsReinvention Champions 2024
    Piano maker Edelweiss finds the key to recalibrating supply chain

    British business found a pandemic necessity inspired a grand reinvention

    A modern, colorful grand piano with a vibrant pink body, yellow curved legs, and a blue-tinted open lid
  • Saturday, 9 November, 2024
    UK holds talks with China’s Jingye to avert closure of British Steel plants

    Support package drawn from £2.5bn war chest being prepared to try and keep Scunthorpe site open

    A steelworker watches as molten steel pours from one of the blast furnaces at British Steel’s Scunthorpe plant
  • Thursday, 7 November, 2024
    Rolls-Royce Holdings PLC
    Rolls-Royce sticks to outlook despite supply chain woes

    UK aerospace group buoyed by post-pandemic surge in international travel

    A Rolls-Royce engine on an aircraft is shown in mid-flight against a backdrop of blue sky and scattered clouds. The engine prominently displays the Rolls-Royce logo.
  • Tuesday, 5 November, 2024
    UK defence
    Navantia seeks extra £300mn from UK to rescue Harland & Wolff

    Defence group wants boost in Navy contract as it plans to buy Titanic shipbuilder out of administration

    Harland & Wolff’s famous shipyard in Belfast
  • Saturday, 2 November, 2024
    News in-depth
    UK bike-makers hope quality will steer them round market potholes

    Niche manufacturers from Moulton to Atherton follow low-volume, high-price strategy amid wider industry crisis

    Making a bike at Moulton Bicycles
  • Thursday, 3 October, 2024
    Electric vehicles
    UK drivers have ‘no fiscal incentive’ to buy EVs, warn carmakers

    Industry calls for tax cuts to boost market in open letter to chancellor Rachel Reeves

    Visitors attend on the first day of the Everything Electric North Show
  • Wednesday, 18 September, 2024
    British Steel Ltd
    British Steel reveals losses deepened eightfold

    Concerns mount about future of Chinese-owned company that employs thousands in UK

    British Steel’s site in Scunthorpe
  • Tuesday, 17 September, 2024
    Brompton Bicycle
    Brompton tackles tougher terrain with first bike on bigger wheels

    UK fold-up specialist breaks with hyper-compact 16-inch format to add off-road model

    A woman standing next to a fold-up bike
  • Friday, 13 September, 2024
    John Gapper
    Rolls-Royce is on a smoother flight path at last

    The UK aircraft engine manufacturer is starting to live up to its distinguished name

    Rolls Royce jet engine and logo
  • Thursday, 12 September, 2024
    News in-depth
    Is there a future for steelmaking in the UK?

    Tata Steel plans to replace its Port Talbot blast furnaces with a less-polluting electric arc furnace

    Port Talbot steel works
  • Wednesday, 11 September, 2024
    Tata Steel Ltd
    Tata secures £500mn of state aid for UK’s largest steelworks

    About 2,500 jobs to be lost in shift to greener furnace at south Wales site

    A Tata Steel worker at the blast furnace in Port Talbot
  • Tuesday, 10 September, 2024
    Tata Group
    Tata ‘very close’ to securing £500mn of state aid for UK’s largest steelmaking plant

    Chair of Indian parent company says talks with the British government are ‘going well’

  • Friday, 6 September, 2024
    British Steel Ltd
    British Steel owner preparing to bring forward blast furnace closures

    Move by Jingye is expected before Christmas and would put at risk thousands of jobs

    Steelworker watches a furnace
  • Monday, 2 September, 2024
    Industrials
    The four-wheel cargo bike makers seeking to oust vans from cities

    A five-year-old sector is seeking to overcome reliability challenges to transform deliveries

    EAV chief Chris Temple with a four-wheel cargo bike
  • Thursday, 22 August, 2024
    AstraZeneca PLC
    AstraZeneca threatens to move UK vaccine manufacturing to US

    British pharmaceutical company unhappy at chancellor Rachel Reeves’ plan to cut state aid for project

    The exterior of the AstraZeneca factory in Speke, Liverpool, is shown on a sunny day. The factory building is white with the AstraZeneca logo prominently displayed. There is a fence with signs, including one that directs deliveries to a specific gate and another that prohibits U-turns for safety reasons. The area is landscaped with green grass, trees, and bushes
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