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General Industrial News – Early January 2021

Plans have been approved for a plant to recycle waste construction and demolition waste in Salford. The process will create materials which will be used to build a multi-modal freight facility and distribution park at Port Salford and other construction sites across Greater Manchester. Salford City Council’s planning committee has approved plans for the Peel L&P Environmental facility which will based at Peel L&P’s Port Salford development off the A57 Liverpool Road in Eccles. It will house a waste soil wash plant capable of ...

Power Generation News – Early January 2021

Clean fuel and energy storage business, ITM Power, says manufacturing of electrolysers has started at its first “Gigafactory” at Bessemer Park in Sheffield. The fit out of the 1GW (1,000MW) per annum facility has now reached practical completion, having suffered only a minor delay due to the pandemic. ITM Power’s completed fit out includes an expansion of the existing offices, enlargement of the stack manufacturing and production areas and a dedicated space for factory acceptance testing of products. The Gigafactory houses a 24-hour remote ...

Manufacturing News – Early January 2021

A South Yorkshire-based steel company is pumping more than £60m into its operations in order to double its production. LIBERTY Steel, part of the GFG Alliance, has committed to a programme of new investments at its GREENSTEEL production hub in Rotherham to supply the transport, defence, and construction sectors. This forms part of the UK Government’s “Build Back Better” plan. The business says the money will remove production bottlenecks at its electric arc furnace (N-Furnace) and small bloom caster in Rotherham, helping it increase ...

Automotive News – Early January 2021

Luxury car maker Jaguar Land Rover marked the end of 2020 with a second successive quarter-on-quarter recovery in sales, despite the continuing impact of COVID-19. The group, which builds cars at sites in Halewood, Merseyside, and Castle Bromwich and Solihull in the West Midlands, said retail sales for the quarter, ending December 31, 2020, were 128,469 vehicles, 13.1% higher than the 113,569 vehicles sold in the preceding quarter, but down nine per cent on the same period last year. China sales were particularly ...

GTMA – New Supply Chain Solutions Magazine now online

The GTMA are very pleased to announce that Issue 14 of the Supply Chain Solutions Magazine is now available to be read online. Please go to https://www.gtma.co.uk/SCS14/ The message throughout this Supply Chain Magazine represents the positive response from companies who have demonstrated how agile and adaptable they are to new challenges: 100 Companies join medical cluster RESHORING is working Rail cluster on track The measurement specialists Another look at AM

KTN share Useful Guide when taking Products to Market

“Navigating the Design to Manufacture Journey: A Guidebook” has been created to assist you (and those you work with) as you take physical products to market. It consolidates learning from the 12-week online webinar series we ran over the summer lockdown, in partnership with Product Design Scotland. The guide will help your business prepare for the journey from Design to Manufacture. Technology market analysis by CB Insights (2019) found that 97% of start-up companies developing innovative ‘hardware’ fail (i.e. those developing physical products that ...

British Plastics Federation releases a recycling roadmap

Today the British Plastics Federation has released a Recycling Roadmap report. This in-depth report brings together all currently available data on recycling and projects what the UK recycling industry can achieve over the next decade, provided the right drivers are in place. Featuring a foreword by Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Defra Rebecca Pow MP, the Recycling Roadmap shows the steps needed for the UK to drastically reduce its reliance on exporting plastic waste for recycling and to reduce the amount of plastic ...

Nuclear News Nov/Dec 2020

A new consortium led by Rolls-Royce says it will create 6,000 regional jobs over the next five years after revealing plans to build 16 mini nuclear power stations. The UK SMR consortium says it wants to build the small scale facilities over the next 20 years in an effort to help secure the UK’s net zero commitments affordably, revitalise its regional industrial base and secure exports of at least £250bn. Up to 80% (by value) of the power station components will be made ...

Railway News Nov/Dec 2020

Derby train-maker Bombardier Transportation has landed a contract extension worth almost £250m, which will see it continue to maintain Arriva CrossCountry trains. The firm has signed a three-year extension to its existing agreement with Arriva, with an option of a further extension of up to one year. Matt Byrne, UK president at Bombardier Transportation, said: “We are delighted that we have reached agreement to maintain the Voyager and Super Voyager fleet for Arriva CrossCountry. “This important contract extension is a reflection of our excellent ...

Industrial Metals News Nov/Dec 2020

British Steel will enhance its range of rail products and services by embarking on a multi-million-pound research and development (R&D) programme with engineers from the University of Sheffield. The partnership will see British Steel use new state-of-the-art equipment. The company, which supplies the majority of the track laid in the UK and exports to major networks across the globe, is working with the university to ensure British manufacturers remain at the forefront of rail technology and innovation. The partnership will see British Steel use ...