With great play being made of manufcturing’s role in helping to ‘rebalance’ the UK economy, the Financial Times has launched a new video series looking at what qualities the companies of the future will need. The series opens with UK manufacturing editor Peter Marsh visiting Xiros, the Leeds-based pioneers in artificial ligaments. Marsh talks to chairman and technical director Bahaa Seedhom and explores the company’s relationship with academia,…

Recession, according to economist Dennis Turner, is the time when even those people who had no intention of paying you stop buying. The most recent recession may be over and, while those who still have no intention of paying may be placing orders again, the more serious issue the economy faces is how we are going to pay our way as a country.

According to Turner, chief economist…

Posted by guest blogger, David Raistrick UK manufacturing industry leader for Deloitte, based in Leeds

Despite another oil crisis looming, a recent survey carried out by Deloitte show that mass adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) is still a distance away.  According to the survey, only 16 per cent of European consumers identify themselves as potential first movers, while 53 per cent say they might be willing to consider…

Suddenly, everyone is listening to the region’s manufacturers. FT’s manufacturing editor Peter Marsh was recently in Leeds, meeting over dinner with a group of manufacturers to find out more about how the sector is performing and the key issues it is facing. Before that representatives of the sector had been invited to meet the ‘shadow monetary policy committee’, a group of Yorkshire-based opinion formers who meet every month to talk economics…