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  • Monday, 4 July, 2022
    UK ministers rebuff request for help in reopening fertiliser plant

    UK Nitrogen wants £10mn loan to restart production at CF Industries’ mothballed Ince plant

  • Tuesday, 28 June, 2022
    Electric vehicles
    Electric vehicle drive puts 22,000 UK jobs at risk, warns industry

    SMMT says higher energy prices will add £100mn to motor industry costs this year

  • Tuesday, 21 June, 2022
    Rolls-Royce Holdings PLC
    Union rejects Rolls-Royce’s pay offer and £2,000 cost-of-living bonus

    Representatives in talks after deal that included 4 per cent wage rise dismissed as falling ‘a long way short’

  • Monday, 20 June, 2022
    Cost of living crisis
    Rolls-Royce offers workers £2,000 to help ease cost of living crisis

    UK aero-engine group combines one-off payment with 4% pay rise offer as a ‘simple wage increase is just not affordable’

  • Wednesday, 8 June, 2022
    Sanjeev Gupta
    UK steel jobs at risk as judge rules GFG winding-up bid can proceed

    Citigroup is seeking to shut down Sanjeev Gupta metals companies over unpaid debts

  • Wednesday, 1 June, 2022
    Robin Harding
    Electric vehicles accelerate China’s looming dominance as a car exporter

    For Japanese and European carmakers, the challenge is that while EVs may be high-tech, they are not complex

  • Monday, 30 May, 2022
    InterviewRolls-Royce Holdings PLC
    Rolls-Royce must become a ‘profitable icon’, says chair Anita Frew

    UK engineering group closes in on successor to chief executive Warren East

  • Wednesday, 25 May, 2022
    De La Rue PLC
    De La Rue shares fall after banknote maker issues profit warning over rising costs

    M&S and Purplebricks among other UK companies under pressure from inflation and economic uncertainty

  • Tuesday, 24 May, 2022
    News in-depthUK Inequality
    The UK looks to innovation hubs to help ‘level up’ left behind areas

    R&D partnerships involving universities and industry are being set up in Manchester, the West Midlands and Glasgow

  • Friday, 20 May, 2022
    Helen Thomas
    UK government is in semiconductor mess of its own making

    Untangling national security and strategic economic concerns around Newport Wafer Fab will be tough

  • Wednesday, 18 May, 2022
    UK politics & policy
    Kwarteng warned on China takeover of UK semiconductor plant

    Report to say that sale of Newport Wafer Fab will undermine a strategic industry

  • Monday, 16 May, 2022
    Electric vehicles
    Israeli electric vehicle group REE to build $15mn UK factory

    Site in Coventry will produce up to 10,000 vehicle bases a year

  • Sunday, 15 May, 2022
    UK manufacturers ‘reshore’ supply chains after pandemic and Brexit

    Just-in-time processes break down after increased delays caused by successive economic shocks

  • Tuesday, 3 May, 2022
    Inflationary pressures take toll on British manufacturers

    Rising purchase prices reported by 85% of survey respondents, with most passing increases on to consumers

  • Monday, 25 April, 2022
    Pensions industry
    UK regulator invokes emergency powers to address steelworker pension scandal

    FCA issues order to stop advisers from offloading assets to avoid paying compensation

  • Thursday, 14 April, 2022
    Shola Asante
    How to turn design dreams into a commercial reality

    Stick to first principles — never lose sight of what your customer wants and be quick to ditch a shoddy manufacturer

  • Tuesday, 5 April, 2022
    Automobiles
    UK new car sales fall to lowest level since 1998 as chip shortage bites

    Semiconductor supply hits factories but electric vehicles continue rise in popularity

  • Tuesday, 5 April, 2022
    News in-depthUK defence industry
    Royal Navy support vessels tender threatens new shipbuilding strategy

    Contradictory signals from UK Ministry of Defence leave executives uncertain over future of key project

  • Friday, 11 March, 2022
    British Steel Ltd
    British Steel lifts prices by ‘record 25%’ in face of soaring costs

    Increases will add to pressures on construction projects including HS2 rail line

  • Friday, 25 February, 2022
    Brompton Bicycle
    Brompton to fold up London base as capital’s rental costs surge

    UK’s biggest bicycle maker plans new factory in Kent to keep up with soaring demand

  • Tuesday, 15 February, 2022
    Batteries
    Britishvolt wins further Glencore backing in latest funding round

    Miner and commodity trader to invest £40mn in UK battery start-up at a valuation of more than £774mn

  • Sunday, 6 February, 2022
    Renishaw PLC
    UK engineer Renishaw expects chip crunch to last another 2 years

    FTSE 250 group says manufacturers will invest heavily to avert shortfall

  • Monday, 31 January, 2022
    Graphene start-up wins backing from UK Treasury and CIA-linked firm

    Cambridge-based Paragraf aims to commercialise material acclaimed as a wonder by scientists and engineers

  • Thursday, 27 January, 2022
    Automobiles
    UK car industry warns of higher prices amid rising energy costs

    Annual production from British plants drops to 859,575, its lowest level since 1956

  • Sunday, 23 January, 2022
    UK energy
    Rolls-Royce seeks bids for site to make small nuclear power plants

    Consortium invites Local Enterprise Partnerships in England and Welsh government to pitch for facility

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