The latest Leeds York and North Yorkshire Chamber of Commerce quarterly economic survey shows that overseas markets continue to present opportunities for exporters and that manufacturers are outperforming their service sector counterparts by some distance.

More than half of exporting-manufacturers are experiencing an increase in overseas sales and orders, according to the survey, and the majority of the sector’s growth is coming from international trade. Service sector exporters reported…

Chinese manufacturer Power Link Machine Co has unveiled its new European HQ in Yorkshire, creating at least 15 new jobs.

The fast growing international company is aiming for its UK operation, based at Sherburn Enterprise Park near Leeds, to grow to a turnover of £10m within two years.

From its Yorkshire base Power Link is looking to establish itself as a European leader in the manufacture and distribution of diesel power…

Just Trays, the UK’s largest manufacurer of shower trays, has signed a deal with the leading supplier of quality bathrooms, tiles and plumbing materials across the Middle East and Central Asia.

The Leeds company will work with Sanipex Group to distribute its products in the United Arab Emirates and Indian markets.

The agreement, reported in the Yorkshire Evening Post, follows soon after JT’s link-up with Konig to supply…

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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,…

UK Manufacturing recorded its strongest growth for 23 years in March, according to the National Institute for Economic and Social Research. Manufacturing output grew by 2.3% in March – the sharpest rise since 1987 – strengthening growth within the wider economy and suggesting that the recovery is more secure than previously thought.

The rise in output has been driven by a…

While Yorkshire boasts more breweries than any other UK region – more than 70 compared to 16 in the early 1970s – its principal city’s own independent brewery didn’t arrive on the scene until 2007. However, since then the Leeds Brewery has certainly made up for lost time.

With sales now exceeding 20,000 thousand pints a week through the brewery’s growing chain of distinctive Leeds pubs and other watering…

A little over three years ago, we launched our Leeds Manufacturing media relations campaign and it has met with conspicuous success, achieving media coverage far and wide.

This is not so much due to our skills in recording the continued progress of the city as a centre of manufacturing excellence, but more to the rich and innovative variation of companies and their products.

In a recent tour of…