The value of UK manufacturing output grew to £155.8bn in Q2 2025, up 1.5% (£3.8bn) from the same period in 2024, driven primarily by a 5.8% (£1.8bn) increase in the value of output from the automotive ...

Lance Owide, General Manager of B2B at BigCommerce, recently spoke with The Manufacturer about the role of artificial intelligence (AI) in manufacturing and B2B ecommerce. In this first instalment of ...

British manufacturing companies have been lagging behind international competitors over the last two decades, with manufacturers falling dramatically down the global automation tables. Our use of ...

Global attention continues to focus on climate change, with businesses in every sector being challenged to demonstrate genuine responsibility in how they operate. For the plastic packaging industry, ...

Nestlé is aiming to be a net zero business by 2050 and in fact, achieved its 2025 target a year early. The Manufacturer Editor Joe Bush caught up with Emma Keller, the company’s Head of Sustainability ...

A new global benchmark report from manufacturing intelligence specialist Lineview reveals that food and beverage manufacturers prioritising workforce upskilling and real-time data use are achieving ...

The threat of a wine shortage in the UK due to a strike at one of the UK’s leading bottling plants is another warning to businesses to take steps in-order to better mitigate against disruptions in the ...

This weekend’s Azerbaijan Grand Prix saw the debut of pioneering bio-based carbon fibre composite material on the Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS F1 car, marking the next step in our journey to use sustainable ...

Micron Technology has announced plans to expand its U.S. investments to approximately $150bn in domestic memory manufacturing and $50bn in R&D, creating an estimated 90,000 direct and indirect jobs.

Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR), set to come into force later this year, essentially shifts the financial responsibility for packaging waste from taxpayers to producers. As food and beverage ...

Scottish green chemical manufacturer Celtic Renewables has bolstered its senior leadership team with the appointment of Bettina Brierley as Chief Commercial Officer and Kerry Crawford as Chief ...

Trials have taken place to de-risk autonomous technology for agriculture to give farmers confidence in adopting new technologies and show the potential effects on efficiency, sustainability and ...