There is some good news for garment factory workers. G7 leaders meeting in Bavaria have agreed to establish a new fund to help improve the global supply chain in the wake of the Rana Plaza disaster in Bangladesh in 2013 in which 1,137 ...
Tags: Garment Industry, Insurance Fund
In late March, on the 10 hectare former airstrip at the Gatton campus of The University of Queensland in Brisbane St Lucia, the 3.275MW Gatton Solar Research Facility (the state's largest solar array) was officially opened by Industry and ...
Tags: First Solar, Queensland, PV System
The second season of All-ways Expo Sourcing-- Hannover Messe 2015 was ceremoniously opened by German Chancellor Angela Merkel in April 13th, 2015. It is renowned as world’s biggest industrial technology trade fair. The headline theme ...
Power management company Eaton today announced that it has helped improve the lighting performance and energy efficiency in a campus recreation facility at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. By replacing almost 400 lighting ...
Tags: LED Solutions, LED luminaires
The second season of All-ways Expo Sourcing-- Hannover Messe 2015 was ceremoniously opened by German Chancellor Angela Merkel in April 13th, 2015. It is renowned as world’s biggest industrial technology trade fair. The headline theme ...
Tags: Global Sourcing Event
The UK Government's Universities Minister Greg Clark MP has unveiled a £17.3m funding award that will underpin the Compound Semiconductor Research Foundation - the first of its kind in the UK, with potential to become one of the ...
UK Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne has earmarked £100m funding for carrying out research and development of automated cars and its supporting systems during the next five years. The funding will be matched by the ...
Tags: vehicles, IT, Auto Parts
George Osborne has delivered his sixth Budget, and the last of the current Parliament. The key points are as follows: Economy The UK grew 2.6% in 2014, faster than any other advanced economy but lower than 3% predicted in December ...
Tags: George Osborne, Sixth Budget
UK Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne has cut duty on spirits and cider by 2% and froze duty on wine and slashed the price of beer by a penny a pint for the third year now. In the budget speech presented in the House of ...
The Scotch whisky market in the UK has shrunk by almost 5% as consumers and industry continue to be impacted by the heavy tax regime. The tax is approximately 80% as a share of the price of an average bottle of the drink. The figures, ...
Tags: Scotch Whisky Market, Fairer Tax, Whisky
Beer sales in the UK have increased by 1.3%, after nine consecutive years of decline during which beer sales dropped by 24%. According to British Beer & Pub Association (BBPA), the surge in beer sales comes after two duty cuts on alcohol ...
Tags: Beer Sales, tax cuts, beer
Riaz Ahmed, owner and MD of Lancashire bed and furniture manufacturer Sweet Dreams, was invited to visit Chancellor Rt Hon George Osborne MP last week to discuss how to promote business in the north with other major employers and ...
Small distillers from across the UK are supporting the 'Drop the Duty!' campaign, which calls for a reduced duty on alcohol in order to facilitate the growth of the industry. This campaign is run by Scotch Whisky Association (SWA) Wine and ...
Tags: Whisky, alcohol duty, Agriculture
With the UK’s economy on the up and an overall increase in consumer spending, there is a positive tone to this year’s Statistics Digest, published by the Furniture Industry Research Association, which contains facts and figures ...
Tags: Furniture Industry, trade gap, Furniture
UK-based plasma etch and deposition processing system maker Oxford Instruments Plasma Technology (OIPT) recently won an order from The City University of New York (CUNY) for its PlasmaPro etch and deposition systems. The PlasmaPro 100 ICP ...