Manufacturing is having a far greater impact on the UK economy than first thought according to a major new report released today. ‘The True Impact of UK Manufacturing’, which will be unveiled at MACH 2024 in Birmingham later, shows industry is worth £518billion and supports 7.3million UK jobs directly and across the supply chains/communities it […]

Established over 80 years ago, the London-based Engineering Industries Association (EIA) is renowned for being a strong and resilient association with the core purpose to provide information and services to assist UK-based SME manufacturing and engineering companies across the sector to run their businesses. This membership organisation consists of members that offer capacity in subcontract […]

The latest Contract Manufacturing Index (CMI) shows that the UK market for subcontract manufacturing ended the year on a strong positive note after a difficult twelve months. Read more

On 22 November 2023, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Jeremy Hunt, proclaimed his Autumn Statement as “the biggest ever boost to business investment”. We’ve taken a look behind the headlines to highlight the key announcements for innovative businesses of all sizes. Merged scheme start date confirmedThe Autumn Statement confirms that a merged scheme for R&D […]

High performance electric cars are being developed across Europe for Formula Student, an engineering education competition like no other. The team from Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Portugal may have a secret weapon in the form of a test bench based upon a wireless torque sensor. Formula Student (FS) aims to develop enterprising and innovative young engineers and encourage […]

The aerospace sector is renowned for its safety standards and a whole industry has grown up to provide equipment and services for testing aircraft and their subsystems. Airliners are subject to tremendous loads as they land and take off, from the touchdown of the undercarriage, to the back-thrust of the jet engines as they slow […]

The Manufacturing Technologies Association (MTA) has expanded its support to the engineering-based manufacturing sector with the formation of a new cluster of trade associations and events.

Sensor Technology has extended its new range of torque sensors with a model that has the sensing head and electronics in separate housings. This has two advantages: the sensing head can fit into very confined spaces, and the electronics can be located in a position where they are protected from physical damage, dust, dirt, moisture, […]

Sensor Technology has specialised in wireless torque sensing mainly offering a solution based on detecting surface acoustic waves. It’s new sensors, designated the SGR510/520 series however, use a full four element strain gauge bridge design.

LOBO Systems, the British firm producing the worlds’ most sophisticated scaffolding system, has won more than £600,000 worth of orders from e-commerce giant Amazon.

The Manufacturing Technologies Association (MTA) today announces that The Engineering Industries Association (EIA) has been brought on board as part of the MTA family and will now sit as an independent identity under the MTA umbrella brand.