Friday Brief Intro 28/04/2023

Good afternoon and welcome to this week’s Friday Brief! Bring on the bank holiday weekend! Ho lucky we are to have two bank holidays in a row!

First up this week I’d like to begin by welcoming 4 companies joining MTA Membership! LOXHAM PRECISION LIMITED, SIC MARKING LTD, RÖSLER UK and BONHAM & BROOK have all recently joined membership so go to the story below to read a bit about who they are and what they do.

Croner would like to invite you to a seminar on ‘Workplace Nightmares and How to Avoid Them’. Find out what topics will be covered in the story below, as well as a link to register.

BSI have a Roadshow event in Nottingham in conjunction with Nottingham Local council on the 10th July 2023. The event will be at The Jubilee Hotel and Conference Centre, Nottingham starting at 2pm with a drinks reception after. There will be BSI experts speaking on how standards can support organisations with Sustainability, impact of digitalisation, Trade, Health, Safety and Wellbeing. Find out more details in the story below.

A special offer to provide private medical plans for members of Manufacturing Technologies Association has been arranged with HMCA, including a £50 gift card or £100 off your first-year subscription upon joining a private medical plan. Take a look at the story below to get more details.

The Advanced Propulsion Centre (APC) exists to help accelerate the transition to a net-zero automotive industry through funding, support, and insights. We do this by working with industry, academia, and government to highlight the challenges and opportunities. We provide funding and support to enable organisations to develop cutting-edge technologies, build supply chains and invest in the facilities that will answer some of the biggest challenges we face in achieving green transport. Read more below.

Taking place From September 10 to 14, 2024, the 21st AMB – International Exhibition for Metal Working will take place again in Stuttgart. For more than 40 years, the international who’s who of the metal working industry has been meeting at AMB in Stuttgart every two years. Book your stand space for AMB 2024 by 30th June 2023 and get the early-bird price. Check out the link in the story for more details.

Our UK Economic News article this week features the results of the latest CBI Industrial Trends Survey – despite their problems, the survey data continues to provide a valuable insight into the manufacturing sector in the UK. The results were somewhat mixed – the outlook for output and orders remains fairly bleak with key industries for us reporting a fall in activity; on the other hand, the investment intentions data remains relatively upbeat and while capacity utilisation has eased, it is still on the long-run average. This article also looks at the latest update on productivity data for the UK by industry.

The European Economic news article covers the results of the European Commission’s Economic Sentiment Index which this time also has the quarterly capacity utilisation data as well as their bi-annual investment survey. Again, the results are mixed with industry confidence falling sharply but capacity utilisation broadly neutral, although with a mixed picture by country; the investment survey points to a positive outlook for 2023. Take a look at this article for more details.

That concludes the Friday Brief for this week! We hope you all enjoyed the newsletter and have a fantastic bank holiday weekend!

Croner – ‘Workplace Nightmares and How to Avoid Them’

Croner would like to invite you to ‘Workplace Nightmares and How to Avoid Them’ on the 21st of June at the Malmaison in London. During this seminar we will cover: Workplace Nightmares and How To Avoid Them – Exclusive for Associations Tickets, Wed 21 Jun 2023 at 09:30 | Eventbrite We are here to support you. […]

BSI ROADSHOW EVENT

BSI have a Roadshow event in Nottingham in conjunction with Nottingham Local council on the 10th July 2023. The event will be at The Jubilee Hotel and Conference Centre, Nottingham starting at 2pm with a drinks reception after. The Roadshow is focusing on sustainability ambitions of Nottingham local council, the use of standards to accelerate […]

HMCA

A special offer to provide private medical plans for members of Manufacturing Technologies Association has been arranged with HMCA, including a £50 gift card or £100 off your first-year subscription upon joining a private medical plan. If you already have a private medical plan, are you paying too much? You could save money by transferring […]

Welcome to MTA Membership!

LOXHAM PRECISION LIMITED Loxham Precision is a specialist CNC machine tool and motion system manufacturer applying determinism in the pursuit ultra-precision.Our products are targeted towards the needs of the Space, Quantum, Defence, Watchmaking and Medical sectors. Website: www.loxhamprecision.com SIC MARKING LTD We offer high quality systems in all marking technologies: our marking solutions include laser, dot […]

Dedicated to creating a Net Zero Future

Accelerating the transition of the automotive industry The Advanced Propulsion Centre (APC) exists to help accelerate the transition to a net-zero automotive industry through funding, support, and insights. We do this by working with industry, academia, and government to highlight the challenges and opportunities. Formed in 2013 to help the automotive industry meet the challenges […]

Registration for AMB Stuttgart 2024 is now open

ECONOMIC NEWS – UK

CBI Industrial Trends Survey, April 2023: Although the CBI is having a few reputational problems, the results of their surveys continue to provide valuable information about the economy and, from the Industrial Trends Survey (ITS), for the manufacturing sector. Various indicators from this survey featured during our Economic Update presentation last week, so we will […]

ECONOMIC NEWS – EUROPE

European Commission Economic Sentiment Indicator and Capacity Utilisation, April 2023: The European Commission (EC) draws from a range of surveys to construct confidence indicators for six sectors of the economy and then uses five of these (financial services is not used) make up its Economic Sentiment Indicator (ESI). The other point to note is that […]

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