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- Manufacturers unite to target reshoring opportunities & new supply chain capability (01/06/2020)
  
  A new initiative – UK Manufacturing Unite (#UKMFGUnite) – designed to build UK industrial capability and increase reshoring has got off to a flying start, after £625,000 of orders were placed in the first few weeks.
- In-Comm Training launches ‘COVID-19 Secure’ service to help businesses get back to work (29/05/2020)
  
  Companies looking to return back to work safely as the lockdown begins to ease can tap into a new service launched by In-Comm Training that will help them become ‘COVID-19 Secure’.
- Developing functional electronic textiles with UV curing (27/05/2020)
  
  Intertronics helps Nottingham Trent University (NTU) Advanced Textiles Research Group (ATRG) develop novel functional electronic textiles.
- Manufacturing much-needed display sub-assemblies for NHS ventilators during COVID-19 crisis (27/05/2020)
  
  RDS display & embedded systems expertise comes to the fore in these challenging times, as UK manufacturers step up to help design, manufacture, test & supply ventilators to the NHS to help address the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic.
- Prodrive helps create low-cost ventilator for worldwide use against COVID-19 – especially in developing nations (26/05/2020)
  
  To support the fight against COVID-19, British motorsport & advanced technology engineering business, Prodrive has worked with Cambridge University to develop & prototype a new low-cost ventilator for global use – especially in low-income developing countries.
- IMechE view on Cambridge Uni moving lectures online for next academic year in response to COVID-19 (21/05/2020)
  
  Lydia Amarquaye, Education Policy Adviser at the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) responds to news from Cambridge University that its lectures will go online for next academic year (2020/21), commenting on the impact for engineering students.
- Most countries will surpass 2019 levels of manufacturing production by 2024, as world emerges from COVID-19, says industry tracker (19/05/2020)
  
  Global manufacturing output is predicted to be down by 7.6% in 2020; but most countries will exceed 2019 levels of production by 2024, according to Interact Analysis. Transportation-related sectors (aerospace, automotive & commercial) are likely to be the worst hit; food & beverage sectors the least. US, UK, Italy, India & Brazil to be the worst affected; Korea & China the least.
- Manufacturers urged to take ‘Skills Pledge’ to protect apprentice pipeline in wake of COVID-19 pandemic (19/05/2020)
  
  UK skills training provider, In-Comm Training has launched a new campaign to ensure apprenticeships are protected as manufacturers seek to find ways of coping with the coronavirus pandemic.
- COVID-19 places augmented reality at the heart of the ‘new working normal’ (18/05/2020)
  
  COVID-19 will accelerate industry’s move to augmented reality (AR) and other IoT solutions, as design, manufacturing & engineering companies across the UK look to adapt to a ‘new working normal’.

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