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UK manufacturing

  • Monday, 7 July, 2025
    UK officials hopeful steel industry will avoid 50% US tariff

    Deadline for countries to sign deals with Trump expires on Wednesday

    Worker at a construction site in Acton, UK
  • Sunday, 6 July, 2025
    UK defence industry
    British-made Typhoon production grinds to a halt raising fears about UK defence skills

    Work on final assembly line has wound down after dearth of new orders for the combat aircraft

    Eurofighter Typhoon
  • Sunday, 29 June, 2025
    Lotus reverses plan to shut factory after UK offers fresh support

    Business secretary Jonathan Reynolds to speak to carmaker after ‘everyone just panicked’

    An employee works on a sports car engine at Lotus’s Hethel plant in Norfolk
  • Friday, 27 June, 2025
    Automobiles
    Carmaker Lotus plans to end production in the UK

    Closure of historic Norfolk plant would put 1,300 jobs at risk and be the latest blow to the country’s auto industry

    Lotus Emira sports car on display
  • Thursday, 26 June, 2025
    Automobiles
    UK vehicle production hits 76-year low in May as Trump tariffs bite

    Output plunges after Aston Martin and other British carmakers halt exports to the US

    Aston Martin Lagondas on display outside a showroom
  • Monday, 23 June, 2025
    UK industrial strategy
    Energy prices to be cut for businesses as part of UK industrial strategy

    Sectors including automotive, aerospace and chemicals will be exempt from paying green levies on electricity bills

    An apprentice working on pressurised piping at a college
  • Thursday, 19 June, 2025
    UK industrial strategy
    Ministers look at energy discounts for UK industry to compete with European rivals

    Reducing ‘eye-watering’ costs will be centrepiece of government’s industrial strategy next week

    Workers on a car production line
  • Wednesday, 18 June, 2025
    UK’s largest fibreglass factory to shut in blow to government’s industrial strategy

    Talks with rescue bidders for unit of Japan’s Nippon Electric Glass fell apart

    Nippon Electric Glass factory in Wigan
  • Tuesday, 17 June, 2025
    Rolls-Royce Holdings PLC
    Rolls-Royce calls for government to back plans for new aircraft engine

    Chief executive says UK’s upcoming industrial strategy should ‘support competitively advantaged industries’

    Tufan Erginbilgiç, chief executive of Rolls-Royce
  • Monday, 16 June, 2025
    British Steel Ltd
    UK ordered 24-hour ministerial access to British Steel plant, documents show

    Government mandate for flagship Scunthorpe site points to concern that Chinese owner would shut down facility

    A steelworker watches as molten steel pours from a blast furnace at British Steel’s Scunthorpe site
  • Sunday, 15 June, 2025
    UK trade
    US no longer a top growth region for UK manufacturers, survey finds

    Research highlights impact of Trump’s tariffs on transatlantic trade

    Nissan cars produced in Sunderland, north-east England
  • Saturday, 14 June, 2025
    News in-depthUK agriculture
    Bioethanol plant owner says US-UK trade deal will force closure without government help

    ABF Sugar, which owns the Vivergo plant in Saltend, Hull has given ministers two weeks to come up with a rescue package

    The Vivergo Chemical Plant in Hull
  • Monday, 9 June, 2025
    ExplainerUK energy
    Why are the UK’s industrial electricity prices so high?

    Businesses call for measures to help shelter manufacturers

    Montage shows electricity pylon with data line
  • Friday, 6 June, 2025
    UK trade
    Tata Steel warns its exports are at risk under UK-US trade pact

    Britain’s largest steel producer urges government to secure full deal with Trump as soon as possible

    The Port Talbot steel plant
  • Wednesday, 4 June, 2025
    UK trade
    British steelmakers race to secure US orders at lower tariff rate after UK carve-out

    Industry warns about impact of uncertainty after Donald Trump sets deadline for trade deal

    A worker at a blast furnace at Tata Steel’s works in Port Talbot
  • Friday, 30 May, 2025
    Toyota shifts more car production from Japan to UK amid tariff turmoil

    Plant in Derbyshire will make GR Corolla hatchbacks from next year

    Workers on the production line at Toyota’s Burnaston plant
  • Thursday, 22 May, 2025
    British Steel Ltd
    UK weighs bill to wipe out debts British Steel owes to Chinese parent

    Controversial plan to ‘shake off’ nearly £1bn owed to Jingye and related companies could ease a sale, officials say

    British Steel employs about 3,500 people in the UK including 2,700 at its flagship Scunthorpe plant, pictured
  • Thursday, 15 May, 2025
    Nissan Motor Co Ltd
    Nissan says China state automaker could start producing in Sunderland plant

    Chief calls for UK government support while saying he is open to sharing factory with Dongfeng

    A Nissan Juke hybrid vehicle on the production line of the carmaker’s plant in Sunderland
  • Thursday, 15 May, 2025
    UK trade
    Lower US tariffs on UK exports unlikely to take effect for weeks, say British officials

    Companies complain of uncertainty around trade deal and plan to reduce levies on metals and cars

    New Land Rovers at JLR’s plant in Halewood, Liverpool
  • Tuesday, 13 May, 2025
    Jaguar Land Rover Ltd
    Jaguar Land Rover profits defy vexed rebrand

    US tariff uncertainty prompts luxury-car maker to hold back on giving profitability forecast

    The Jaguar Type 00
  • Thursday, 1 May, 2025
    British Steel Ltd
    UK government has so far set aside £94mn to cover British Steel rescue

    Critics warn costs could spiral into billions

  • Tuesday, 29 April, 2025
    British Steel Ltd
    UK took control of British Steel before assessing cost to taxpayers, letters show

    ‘Ministerial direction’ raises questions over price of saving country’s last two blast furnaces

    Business secretary Jonathan Reynolds at the Scunthorpe site
  • Tuesday, 22 April, 2025
    Trump tariffs
    US tariffs threaten lay-offs at UK’s luxury car plants, industry warns

    Aston Martin and other marques that depend on American market may require aid such as furlough schemes, auto chief says

    The production line at the Bentley Motors headquarters in Crewe, UK
  • Thursday, 17 April, 2025
    British Steel Ltd
    UK starts hunt for buyer for British Steel

    Government stepped in to take control of struggling company but is keen to attract private sector investment

    Rachel Reeves pictured at British Steel’s Scunthorpe plant.
  • Wednesday, 16 April, 2025
    British Steel Ltd
    British Steel’s Chinese owner says UK government must ‘respect’ its rights

    Jingye makes first comments after ministers seized control of struggling company

    A worker at British Steel’s site in Scunthorpe
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