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Railway Industry Association joins Reshoring UK to promote the UK’s rail industry

19 August 2020: The Railway Industry Association, the UK trade body for the rail supply community, has joined Reshoring UK, a collaboration of industrial engineering associations focused on connecting manufacturers with trusted, accredited UK suppliers capable of delivering products and services that match their requirements. The new partnership will support RIA members who are looking to fill the gaps in their supply chains or to support the creation of new ones, by connecting them with other companies in the UK. Neil Walker, Exports ...

Energy & Power Generation News, June 2020

Plans for major hydrogen facilities in Norway and the Isle of Wight have been unveiled, as business giants, banks and green campaigners call on world leaders to include hydrogen investment in their Covid-19 recovery plans. The first of the two facilities, proposed by a consortium of European businesses called Norsk e-fuel, is expected to come online in Herøya by 2023, producing 10 million litres of hydrogen annually. This output will be predominantly used by the aviation industry. The consortium – comprising carbon capture ...

Automotive News, June 2020

UK Auto calls for restart support as Covid crisis threatens one in six jobs UK auto industry calls for dedicated restart package to save jobs and pave the way for recovery. New SMMT survey reveals a third of workforce still on furlough with up to one in six jobs at risk. ‘Turbocharged’ Brexit negotiations needed to deliver a comprehensive zero-tariff FTA – crucial to avoiding crippling £40bn production losses by 2025. New report highlights importance of £100bn UK auto trade hub to boosting Britain’s future ...

Automotive News, May 2020

AUTOMOTIVE Renault is cutting 15,000 jobs worldwide as part of a €2bn (£1.8bn) cost-cutting plan after seeing sales plunge because of the virus pandemic. "This plan is essential," said interim boss Clotilde Delbos, who announced cuts in production to focus on more profitable car models. Some 4,600 job cuts will be in France, and the firm said on Friday that it had begun talks with unions. On Thursday, Renault's strategic partner Nissan unveiled huge job cuts. Renault, 15% owned by the French state, said six sites ...

Manufacturing News, May 2020

MANUFACTURING Black Country foundry, Midland Pressure Diecasting (MPD) is creating 10 new jobs to supply increased orders for critical components destined for the NHS, the MoD and Homeland Security in the United States. MPD was identified as a key supplier at the very start of the Covid-19 pandemic and has proactively responded by boosting its workforce in a number of strategic positions, including electrical maintenance, fabrication, CNC operation and die casting. The company, which provides aluminium and zinc high pressure die castings and CNC ...

Backing a UK Supply Base

There are twenty two leading industrial engineering associations, currently behind the Reshoring UK initiative, developed to assist manufacturers connect with trusted, accredited suppliers capable of delivering UK based products ans services. Steve Welch from Engineering Magazine, talks to Julia Moore about why and how it was set up and its main objectives. Read the full article here in May 2020 edition of Engineering Magazine pages 10-13

Reshoring Poll : Will pandemic drive manufacturers back to the UK?

The twenty two leading industrial engineering associations currently behind the Reshoring UK initiative, developed to assist manufacturers connect with trusted, accredited suppliers capable of delivering UK-based products and services, have applauded the recent poll conducted by the technical journal The Engineer: ‘will pandemic drive reshoring of UK manufacturing?’ “Ever since manufacturers began outsourcing production to more competitively priced overseas economies there has been a race to the bottom based on price,” states CEO Julia Moore. “However, there is an intrinsic value attached ...

Automotive News, Late March, 2020

AUTOMOTIVE More than £50m has been invested in the Nissan plant in Sunderland as the firm gears up to build the new Qashqai. The Japanese car-manufacturer said its new press, which weighs over 2,000 tonnes and can exert a pressure of 5,000 tonnes, forms part of its £400m investment in the plant. The Qashqai, which came out in 2006, is the plant's most successful car. Nissan had previously said that a no-deal Brexit could make its European business model "unsustainable". The press took 18 months to ...

Manufacturing News, Late March, 2020

MANUFACTURING Planning permission has been granted for the development of the state-of-the-art National Manufacturing Institute Scotland (NMIS) facility. Situated on Netherton Campus at the centre of the Advanced Manufacturing Innovation District Scotland (AMIDS) in Renfrewshire, the new facility is set to transform manufacturing in Scotland. Renfrewshire Council’s planning authority gave the green light to plans for the brand new energy carbon neutral building, which comes complete with a distinctive heather coloured façade. At around 1.5 times the size of Hampden football pitch, the facility will ...

Manufacturing capability does still exist within the UK.

Many engineering companies are responding to Boris Johnson’s call for help from UK manufacturers. Engineering SMEs would respond in much the same way to enquiries from OEMs and Tier 1s, if given the opportunity to grow their UK supply chain. Reshoring UK is a unique combination of over engineering trade associations networking these skilled companies across the UK to support our UK manufacturers. SME suppliers need to be asked, and to be heard. Firms looking for suppliers could start here: https://www.reshoring.uk/