Government announce £30m R&D funding to help manufacturers
Government Announce New £30m R&D Funding to Help Manufacturers go Digital. Manufacturers are looking into digital technologies as a way of upgrading their productivity and competitiveness, and can now bid for a new layer of government funding. In what was one of...
The Apprenticeship Levy Must be Changed
95% of manufacturers strongly believe that the Apprenticeship Levy needs to be altered to an employer-led system. Employers from the manufacturing industry are asking the government for an immediate rethink into the Apprenticeship Levy. This is to make access to...
A Decline in Manufacturing Output
According to the latest CBI (the Confederation of British Industry) Industrial Trends Survey, manufacturing output has decreased to a standstill in the three months leading up to June 2019. The total number of orders submitted in the manufacturing books has been the...
Political uncertainty sees manufacturing investments decline
Surveys show that Britain’s manufacturers are no longer investing the amount they were in previous years in response to the growing political uncertainty and rising fears of the impact of global trade tensions. The annual EEF/ Santander Investment Monitor shows that...
