Tate & Lyle is to sell its sugar refining operations to American Sugar Refining for £211m in cash, with the proceeds used to reduce the company’s debt.
British manufacturers should take control of their own destiny and to stop waiting on government to care about the sector.
A Wiltshire man has been building a wind turbine for 20 years and is now looking for a graduate to help complete the project.
Small satellite manufacturer Surrey Satellite Technology is to supply satellite platform equipment and services for the KANOPUS Low Earth Orbit Earth observation spacecraft.
A project to develop multimodal hearing aids that autonomously adapt to their surroundings has received £3.2m in EPSRC funding.
Later this month, a fleet of undersea robots will for the first time work together without the aid of humans to make detailed and efficient observations of the ocean.
Manufacturing orders remained well below normal in May and order books are now at levels last seen consistently in late-2003 according to the CBI's monthly Industrial Trends Survey.
