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Manufacturing News – Late February 2021

A North West pilot which has helped hundreds of SME manufacturers access technology and digital tools to boost productivity, growth and create jobs, is to continue as part of an £8m government roll-out. The successful initiative becomes part of the Government’s Made Smarter Adoption programme, which now expands into the North East, Yorkshire and the Humber, and the West Midlands regions. It means hundreds of more manufacturers in Cheshire and Warrington, Cumbria, Greater Manchester, Lancashire, and Liverpool City Region will be able to ...

Automotive News – Late February 2021

The University of Birmingham has launched a three-year research project with Bentley Motors to deliver a sustainable source of rare earth magnets for electric and hybrid vehicles. The £2.6m RaRE (Rare-earth Recycling for E-machines) project is funded by the Office for Low Emission Vehicles (OLEV) and delivered in partnership with Innovate UK, and involves six partners who will work together to establish the first end-to-end supply chain of recycled rare earth magnets in the UK. Rare earth magnets are found in almost every ...

Aerospace News – Early February 2021

Boeing has renewed its longstanding relationship with the University of Sheffield Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC) with an agreement that will continue two decades of innovation and collaboration for another five years. The renewed Tier 1 partnership extends the world’s largest aerospace company’s access to the research and development capabilities of the AMRC, which it jointly founded with the University of Sheffield in 2001. Alongside Boeing, the Rotherham-based centre currently has more than 120 industrial partners including Rolls-Royce, McLaren Automotive, Siemens and BAE ...

Steel News – Early February 2021

New targets to eliminate the gases driving climate change from Wales' economy and way of life are to become law. The Welsh Government said "business as usual" was no longer an option. Changing weather patterns are already "wreaking havoc" and acting now is "the right thing to do for our children and grandchildren", it says. The move brings Wales into line with the UK push for "net zero emissions" by 2050. However, environment minister Lesley Griffiths said she wanted to "get there sooner". It will mean ...

Robotics/Automation News – Early February 2021

Belgrave & Powell, a specialist engineering services group with a Preston site, has acquired Autotech Robotics, based in Plymouth, for an undisclosed sum. The acquisition will form part of Belgrave & Powell’s Machine Technology Group (MTG) which comprises some of the leading UK specialists in high quality machine tool products, robotics and automation covering a wide variety of applications for rail, aerospace, gas turbine, oil & gas, energy and automotive sectors. The Autotech Robotics acquisition is complimentary to MTG’s recently announced robotics and ...

Oil & Gas News – Early February 2021

Oil demand may never recover from the blow dealt to it by Covid-19, according to BP’s 2020 Energy Outlook. In two of the report’s three modelled scenarios, ambitious climate policies mean that global oil consumption already peaked at 100m barrels per day in 2019. Even under a “business-as-usual” case, demand for the fossil fuel would briefly rebound before hitting a terminal plateau in the early 2020s. By BP’s own admission, it’s not a lucrative moment to be an oil company. But it’s ...

Railway News – Early February 2021

Bombardier Transportation, which has a major base in Derby, has been sold to Alstom in a deal which will net the train maker around £2.6bn, including approximately £440m in Alstom shares. The long-running saga of the sale has been finally brought to a close after rumbling on for most of last year. https://www.thebusinessdesk.com/eastmidlands/news/2045103-bombardier-closes-sale-of-transportation-business-after-disagreements-over-deal?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=EastMidlands_1st_Feb_2021_Daily

Power Generation News – Early February 2021

The Scottish government has awarded a contract to explore opportunities for floating offshore wind and hydrogen supply chains in Scotland and France. The award of the contract to the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) follows a competitive tender. EMEC will partner with French engineering firm Innosea and London-based Renewables Consulting Group (RCG) to carry out research. The aim is to understand the technical status of floating wind and hydrogen in Scotland and France and identify ways that collaboration can be encouraged to ...

Manufacturing News – Early February 2021

The world of manufacturing is no stranger to going through the good times and the bad. The 2008 recession put progress and innovation on hold, and now the coronavirus is threatening to create a short-term future where production lines are firing on cylinders and one day and being turned off the next. This article from Houghton International looks at the cost of machine downtime over the last decade and how things can still be done, even during the pandemic, to improve the ...

Automotive News – Early February 2021

The UK’s used car market declined in 2020, down -14.9% according to the latest figures released today by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT). 6,752,959 used car transactions took place, 1,182,146 fewer than in 2019, making 2020 the lowest performing year since 2012 as lockdown measures to tackle the coronavirus pandemic and turbulent consumer and business confidence dented sales. Despite used car transactions increasing 3.7% in October, a fourth consecutive month of growth, the combination of new lockdowns and tougher ...