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UK manufacturing

  • Friday, 30 May, 2025
    Toyota shifts more car production from Japan to UK amid tariff turmoil

    Plant in Derbyshire will make GR Corolla hatchbacks from next year

    Workers on the production line at Toyota’s Burnaston plant
  • Thursday, 22 May, 2025
    British Steel Ltd
    UK weighs bill to wipe out debts British Steel owes to Chinese parent

    Controversial plan to ‘shake off’ nearly £1bn owed to Jingye and related companies could ease a sale, officials say

    British Steel employs about 3,500 people in the UK including 2,700 at its flagship Scunthorpe plant, pictured
  • Thursday, 15 May, 2025
    Nissan Motor Co Ltd
    Nissan says China state automaker could start producing in Sunderland plant

    Chief calls for UK government support while saying he is open to sharing factory with Dongfeng

    A Nissan Juke hybrid vehicle on the production line of the carmaker’s plant in Sunderland
  • Thursday, 15 May, 2025
    UK trade
    Lower US tariffs on UK exports unlikely to take effect for weeks, say British officials

    Companies complain of uncertainty around trade deal and plan to reduce levies on metals and cars

    New Land Rovers at JLR’s plant in Halewood, Liverpool
  • Tuesday, 13 May, 2025
    Jaguar Land Rover Ltd
    Jaguar Land Rover profits defy vexed rebrand

    US tariff uncertainty prompts luxury-car maker to hold back on giving profitability forecast

    The Jaguar Type 00
  • Thursday, 1 May, 2025
    British Steel Ltd
    UK government has so far set aside £94mn to cover British Steel rescue

    Critics warn costs could spiral into billions

  • Tuesday, 29 April, 2025
    British Steel Ltd
    UK took control of British Steel before assessing cost to taxpayers, letters show

    ‘Ministerial direction’ raises questions over price of saving country’s last two blast furnaces

    Business secretary Jonathan Reynolds at the Scunthorpe site
  • Tuesday, 22 April, 2025
    Trump tariffs
    US tariffs threaten lay-offs at UK’s luxury car plants, industry warns

    Aston Martin and other marques that depend on American market may require aid such as furlough schemes, auto chief says

    The production line at the Bentley Motors headquarters in Crewe, UK
  • Thursday, 17 April, 2025
    British Steel Ltd
    UK starts hunt for buyer for British Steel

    Government stepped in to take control of struggling company but is keen to attract private sector investment

    Rachel Reeves pictured at British Steel’s Scunthorpe plant.
  • Wednesday, 16 April, 2025
    British Steel Ltd
    British Steel’s Chinese owner says UK government must ‘respect’ its rights

    Jingye makes first comments after ministers seized control of struggling company

    A worker at British Steel’s site in Scunthorpe
  • Tuesday, 15 April, 2025
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    The UK government needs a proper plan for steel

    The future is not in the Scunthorpe blast furnaces that ministers have rescued

    The British Steel Scunthorpe Site
  • Tuesday, 15 April, 2025
    Explainer
    Decline of the UK steel industry in four charts

    Ministers have intervened to keep the country’s last two blast furnaces open — for now

    Montage shows silhouette of Scunthorpe steelworks against a data backdrop
  • Sunday, 13 April, 2025
    ExplainerBritish Steel Ltd
    Why did the UK rush to save British Steel and what happens next?

    Government now has tricky task of running a costly and complex industrial operation

    A large white question mark is imposed over a blue-tinted image of an industrial facility
  • Saturday, 12 April, 2025
    British Steel Ltd
    British Steel nationalisation is ‘likely option’, says business secretary

    MPs vote in favour of bill giving the government powers to seize control of British Steel

    The British Steel Scunthorpe site
  • Thursday, 10 April, 2025
    British Steel Ltd
    Government offers to buy coal for British Steel as negotiations continue

    Offer comes as Chinese-owned steelmaker prepares to idle one of its two blast furnaces at Scunthorpe

    A steelworker in protective gear stands in front of a furnace with molten metal and sparks flying in a steel plant
  • Tuesday, 8 April, 2025
    British Steel Ltd
    UK considers nationalising British Steel

    Starmer vows to do ‘everything we can to ensure there’s a bright future’ for steelmaker’s main site in Scunthorpe

    British Steel’s plant in Scunthorpe
  • Sunday, 6 April, 2025
    Electric vehicles
    EV targets watered down to help tariff-hit UK car industry

    New rules will allow manufacturers to sell full hybrid and plug-in hybrid vehicles until 2035

    An electric car plugged into a EV charging point
  • Thursday, 3 April, 2025
    Rolls-Royce in talks over UK subsidies for new engine development

    FTSE 100 group believes the £3bn narrow-body project could deliver a step change in British economy

  • Friday, 28 March, 2025
    British Steel Ltd
    British Steel’s Chinese owner pushed for £1bn state support for Scunthorpe plant

    Jingye rejected £500mn government offer and could close its two blast furnaces as early as June

    a view of the Scunthorpe steel plant
  • Thursday, 27 March, 2025
    British Steel Ltd
    Thousands of British Steel jobs at risk as it considers closing blast furnaces in June

    Chinese-owned group will start consultation on cutting roles, it told workers on Thursday

    A steelworker at the British Steel’s Scunthorpe plant in north Lincolnshire
  • Thursday, 27 March, 2025
    News in-depthRare earths
    Belfast magnet recycling start-up offers rare earth promise

    Ionic Technologies says it is the only company outside China able to separate the four most valuable oxides

    A sample of neodymium, extracted from recycled magnets, is prepared for analysis by a woman in a laboratory
  • Wednesday, 26 March, 2025
    British Steel Ltd
    British Steel’s Chinese owner rejects UK government subsidy offer

    Move triggers fears about job losses at company’s flagship Scunthorpe site

    A steelworker watches as molten steel pours from one of the blast furnaces during ‘tapping’ at the British Steel Scunthorpe plant
  • Monday, 24 March, 2025
    InterviewThe CEO
    Turning round Rolls-Royce: ‘If you don’t score quickly, you lose people’

    How CEO Tufan Erginbilgiç restored growth at the 119-year-old British engineering group

    Tufan Erginbilgiç, CEO of Rolls-Royce, at its headquarters in London. The speed of the change in fortune has stunned the company’s long-term followers
  • Tuesday, 4 March, 2025
    UK defence
    Starmer urged to use defence spending boost to revive UK manufacturing

    Make UK chief calls for support for small businesses as Europe faces pressure from US to shoulder security cost

    Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer (far right) and John Healey, now defence secretary, at the Tapa Nato forward operating base in Estonia
  • Thursday, 27 February, 2025
    Rolls-Royce Holdings PLC
    Rolls-Royce shares surge as group to hit profit targets 2 years early

    Stock climbs 15% as results boosted by strong demand for jet engines

    A Rolls-Royce jet engine and logo in a factory
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