​Following Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Alok Sharma’s supportive letter to manufacturing industry yesterday, safe working practices for manufacturers have been spelled out in more ...

​Manufacturers’ organisation Make UK says online learning by its apprentices, due to the Covid-19 pandemic and response, last week saw record figures for online teaching resource use.

​CAD engineers at Maldon-Essex-based Blackman & White have created a face visor that is made from polycarbonate or acetate and the firm is looking to utilise spare capacity in its demo room, where Orion and Genesis V ...

​(Update:16:22 on 6 April to clarify numbers of ventilators called for) - Futuristic headsets programmed to enable skilled aerospace and automotive production line operatives to rapidly switch to the manufacture of ...

Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) is designing and manufacturing a re-usable protective visor for frontline NHS staff.

​BOFA International reports that it maintaining production of its portable fume and dust extraction systems, filters and spares, so that businesses vital to the fight against coronavirus - including those in food and ...

Nuneaton-baed Reginson Engineering has installed the UK's first Citizen Cincom A320-VII with LFV to support urgent critical component manufacturing for 'UKVentilatorChallenge'

​The Royal Mint began mass manufacturing medical visors this week for the NHS frontline care workers, with the first batch of visors already in use at The Royal Glamorgan Hospital in South Wales.

​Coventry-based Kite Packaging has used its team of 12 engineers to design concepts for a protective face visor for the NHS, with a prototype tested locally by medics last weekend and a target of 10,000 units despatched ...

Hull-based fastening expert Bollhoff is expecting challenging times ahead but is making every effort to ensure that supplies of products used in the medical sector are readily available. The company supplies a variety ...

​Williams Advanced Engineering (WAE) is playing a significant role in an aerospace consortium to produce medical ventilators for use by the NHS.

Small-to-medium-sized manufacturers in England are being urged to take part in a major survey detailing the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on industry.

The Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng) is putting together an initiative to bring together engineers to help tackle the challenge of the Covid-19 pandemic, which is having a profound impact on daily life and the ...

​Germany’s mechanical engineering sector is being impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic, according to a survey by representative organisation VDMA.

​News from America says global 3D printer expert Stratasys has brought together a coalition of organisations there to produce face shields leveraging 3D printers, with 150 firms now involved, taking Boeing, Toyota Motor ...

Oil and gas sector representative OGUK has issued a stark warning about the sector’s situation and prospects. The combination of the global economic impact of the continued spread of the coronavirus, the most dramatic ...