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We’re coming home – Evidence of Reshoring Grows

With a Brexit deal finalised at the end of 2020 and the COVID-19 vaccination rollout programme well underway, manufacturers expect 2021 to be a better year. But global shocks are not going away. As Will Stirling reports, organisations are uniting to show companies which source parts from abroad that there are alternative UK suppliers who can offer short lead-times, high quality, proximity and ease of doing business. To read this full article courtesy of https://www.pesmedia.com/ please click here

Engineering News – Late January 2021

Workers at the Barnoldswick Rolls-Royce factory have agreed to a deal which will save 350 jobs and guarantee its future. Workers, including members of Unite the Union, undertook a series of strikes and following recent negotiations with employers have now “overwhelmingly” backed a peace deal between the two sides. The deal will give the historic site a new lease of life as a core manufacturing facility and host to a new ‘centre of excellence’, training tomorrow’s engineers to meet the challenges of the ...

Marine News – Late January 2021

Birkenhead shipyard Cammell Laird has secured a new four-year contract with one of the UK’s largest ferry operators for the annual maintenance and dry docking of five large vessels in its fleet. CalMac Ferries has awarded Cammell Laird the contract with the option to extend it for two further one-year periods. The contract covers the MV Clansman, MV Loch Seaforth, MV Lord of The Isles, MV Finlaggan and MV Hebrides – all of which provide an essential lifeline service from the Inner and ...

Energy News – Late January 2021

A £750m hydrogen production plant is to be built on the banks of the River Mersey. Essar, which operates the Stanlow oil refinery, and Progressive Energy, developers of HyNet North West, an industrial decarbonisation cluster, have joined forces to set up a venture to produce low carbon hydrogen at the Ellesmere Port refinery. The joint venture will manufacture hydrogen for use across the HyNet region and is expected to create hundreds of construction jobs, followed by thousands more across the region once the ...

Aerospace News – Late January 2021

Rolls-Royce has completed the first engine run on its state-of-the-art Testbed 80, which will be the largest and smartest indoor aerospace testbed in the world when it is officially opened in the coming months https://www.thebusinessdesk.com/eastmidlands/news/2044592-rolls-royce-marks-landmark-on-90m-testbed?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=EastMidlands_15th_Jan_2021_Daily

Rail News – Late January 2021

High speed rail has an "essential part to play" in the delivery of the UK’s net zero carbon target, according to a report from train manufacturer Alstom. The report - The UK’s New Green Age: A Step Change in Transport Decarbonisation – describes High Speed 2 (HS2) as "central to modal shift, including providing an alternative to planes". It adds: "It is not going to be possible to achieve the modal shift needed unless there is sufficient capacity, and a reliable, quick service. ...

Manufacturing News – Late January 2021

The latest Contract Manufacturing Index showed that the subcontracting market was down 46% in the fourth quarter (Q4) of 2020 compared to the previous quarter. Year on year though the market barely moved, ending 2021 1% high than it ended 2020. Those figures, though, conceal a volatile 12 months. A strong start to the year was followed by a dramatic fall at the start of the March lockdown. A strong recovery followed in the summer, with activity falling back again from September. The CMI ...

Automotive News – Late January 2021

UK car production declined -29.3% in 2020, to 920,928 units, according to the latest figures issued by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT). December, output was down -2.3% to 71,403, with some firms affected by border closures and thus component supply issues. This rounded off a dreadful year, the worst since 1984 for UK car makers, with the pandemic chiefly responsible for the decline. Manufacturing operations were severely disrupted throughout 2020, with lockdowns and social distancing measures restricting factory ...

Mining News – Early January 2021

Mining giant Anglo American, which is responsible for the Woodsmith polyhalite mine development on the North Yorkshire coast, has unveiled a huge increase in planned spending on the project. Chief executive, Mark Cutifani, says the company will invest half a billion dollars (£375m) in the project in 2021, an increase on the $300m (£225m) it had previously committed to spending. https://www.thebusinessdesk.com/yorkshire/news/2067331-mine-project-workforce-to-swell-to-1400-as-massive-funding-boost-revealed?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Yorkshire_14th_Dec_2020_Daily After 35 years of highs and lows, production is finally under way at Scotland's first commercial gold mine. The journey has been fraught ...

Railway News – Early January 2021

Improving rail links between cities in the North and Midlands should be the first priority of a new approach to end stop-start investments and help level up the UK as part of a wider economic strategy, according to a major new report by the National Infrastructure Commission. The Commission was asked by the Prime Minister in February this year to undertake an assessment of proposed major rail schemes to help inform the Government’s Integrated Rail Plan. The Commission’s report, published mid-December, highlights the ...