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7 March 2021 • 5:00am
A year ago Rowan Crozier watched his orders plunge by more than half overnight as Covid-19 blitzed sales, but now the manufacturing chief has an eye on the future.
The head of Brandauer, a 158-year-old firm which makes metal components for 80pc of the world’s electric kettles, was already looking to invest in new high-speed power presses – costing up to £250,000 each – after contract wins.
Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s surprise largesse to encourage business investment in the Budget has helped cement the plans. “When I see something that’s too good to be true invariably it is, but it sounds good to me. It’s certainly making us think again and accelerate,” he says.
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A manufacturing collective has proven that strength in numbers can be vital when using innovation to help the UK’s fight against Covid-19.
Image: Barkley Plastics
The demand for PPE during COVID-19 saw the Manufacturing Assembly Network (MAN) rally to meet the requirement and then take their product forward to commercialisation.
The Manufacturing Assembly Network (MAN), a group of eight sub-contract manufacturers and a specialist engineering design agency, was eager to help the country’s Covid-19 fight and, after a number of virtual meetings, it was agreed that the collective would pool its disciplines and over £50,000 of resource to develop the manKIND recyclable visor.
Feb 15, 2021
London – As the new year made Brexit a reality, Tony Hale encountered the pitfalls of Europe’s redrawn political geography. Specifically, he confronted the need to extricate 53 tons of rotting pork products from administrative purgatory at a port in the Netherlands.
For more than two decades, Hale’s company had shipped pork to the European Union without customs checks, as if the United Kingdom and the continent across the water were one vast country.
With the U.K. now legally outside the bloc, exporters have suddenly had to navigate inspections, safety regulations and a bewildering crush of paperwork.
For Hale, incorrectly prepared documents meant sending five containers full of pork to an unplanned final destination: the incinerator.
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