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Scientific research
UK signs first post-Brexit life science agreement with Sweden
...Scientific collaboration between Sweden and the UK is already close, anchored in pharmaceuticals by AstraZeneca, the drug company created by the 1999 merger of Britain’s Zeneca with Sweden’s Astra....
May 27, 2022
Batteries
Vulcan increases lithium targets as demand grows from carmakers
...Francis Wedin, Vulcan’s co-founder and chief executive, told the Financial Times that the start-up’s ambitions had increased because of demand from carmakers....
February 13, 2023
FT Live
Future of the Car
The technology and new business models shaping the next decade in automotive
Tuesday, 7 MaySancroft, Paternoster Square, London EC4M 7DQ, UK
News in-depthNikkei Asia
South-east Asia braced for fires and drought brought on by El Niño
...Authorities in Singapore have warned residents that fire hotspots could escalate from June, and are co-ordinating plans to mitigate the risk of haze returning from Indonesia and Malaysia....
June 28, 2023
Coronavirus: New York City to allow sitting at bars from next week — as it happened
UK business leaders launch national prosperity plan to boost pandemic recovery
...The Covid Recovery Commission, comprised of executives from companies including Vodafone, Astra Zeneca and Shell, said the pandemic had exacerbated existing inequalities and had a bigger impact on the UK...
April 28, 2021
Nissan Motor Co Ltd
Nissan to review Sunderland production in no-deal Brexit
...Other car companies have publicly warned about the impact of a no-deal Brexit, with Vauxhall-owner PSA saying it would relocate the Astra from Ellesmere Port to a European plant in the event of a no-deal...
October 1, 2019
Automobiles
Vauxhall/Opel’s UK plants shut down under historic Brexit measures
...Ellesmere Port has shed more than 900 workers over the past two years and moved to a single production shift, in part because of falling demand for the Astra model that it manufactures....
April 1, 2019
FT Live
Global Private Banking Awards 2024
Celebrating excellence in wealth management
Thursday, 7 NovemberThe Landmark London, London, UK
FT CollectionsAstraZeneca
How AstraZeneca’s vaccine was hit by flawed trials, defects and politics — but might still save the world
...“We put a lot of money in manufacturing, co-funded the clinical trials with Oxford university,” said one senior official....
February 5, 2021
News in-depthKenneth Frazier
Kenneth Frazier, the Merck boss taking a stand against racial injustice
...He joined Merck in 1992 as general counsel of a joint venture between the US drugmaker and Astra, the Swedish half of today’s AstraZeneca....
June 5, 2020
Automobiles
Can Britain’s car plants stay open after Brexit?
...Still, the idea of localised production has garnered more credit as manufacturing advances mean carmakers can squeeze a greater variety of models down the same production line, easing the profit erosion...
February 10, 2020
News in-depthUK manufacturing
Bridgend closure highlights fragile state of car industry
...The looming decision on the Astra highlights how carmakers revamp their vehicles roughly every seven years, with manufacturing location decisions made typically two to three years before production starts...
June 8, 2019
EU business regulation
Pharma industry seeks early EU-UK drugs agreement
...Without an MRA, duplicate inspections of manufacturing sites will need to be carried out in the UK and in a European member state....
June 8, 2018
News in-depthAutomobiles
Honda closure triggers fears of crisis in UK car industry
...The Vauxhall plant in Ellesmere Port in Cheshire, which produces the Astra model, has long been viewed as vulnerable and its French owner PSA Group has said it will make a decision on its future in 2020....
February 19, 2019
Britain after Brexit
‘British cars for British drivers’ slogan might look good on a bus
...The easiest models to make in the plant — equivalent models to the Vauxhall Astra, being Peugeot’s 308 and the Citroën C4 Picasso — sold just over 90,000 cars in 2016 in the UK....
March 29, 2018
Companies
Vauxhall to cut 250 more jobs in Ellesmere Port
...He said a critical decision was looming as the company decides where to make the new model Astra....
January 8, 2018
World
New Vauxhall boss: UK sales turnround needed to support Ellesmere Port jobs
...Ellesmere Port, Vauxhall’s largest UK plant, makes the Astra family car, both under the Vauxhall brand for the UK market and the Opel brand for European sales....
January 11, 2018
FT Live
Outstanding Directors Exchange
Fostering trust for steadfast leadership
Wednesday, 12 JuneHarvard Club of New York City, West 44th Street, New York, NY, USA
FT AlphavilleIzabella Kaminska
Electric vehicle realities
...The automaker would need manufacturing costs to be cut by about $14,750 — 34 per cent — to make the vehicle competitive with GM’s Opel Astra in France....
August 3, 2017
John Gapper
The chemicals industry has lost its future
...Saudi Aramco is adding to global overcapacity by forming a joint venture with Dow Chemical to build a $20bn manufacturing complex in Jubail....
May 31, 2017
UK economy
Proposed Opel sale raises questions over UK plants
...Opel had been due to make a decision on the allocation of the next Astra model, currently co-produced at Ellesmere Port and in Poland, this year....
February 14, 2017
Companies
Unite secretary McCluskey calls for govt assurances ahead of GM-Peugeot deal
...Ellesmere Port, which builds Astra cars for both GM’s Vauxhall and Opel brands, is seen as especially vulnerable to any cutbacks following a deal, since it exports around 80 per cent of its production to...
February 15, 2017
Brexit
Union demands Nissan-style assurances for Vauxhall UK plants
...The site came close to closure in 2012, until GM agreed to manufacture the next generation of the Astra at the plant....
February 15, 2017
UK economy
Vauxhall plants need ‘new direction’ to survive, says Carlos Tavares
...PSA has committed to honour Opel’s existing job protection agreements, as well as current production plans that include manufacturing the Astra hatchback at Ellesmere Port until the end of the decade....
February 24, 2017
US & Canadian companies
General Motors looks to Peugeot to solve its European problem
...Its UK manufacturing centre at Ellesmere Port near Liverpool, where the Astra is made, exports 80 per cent of its cars to the EU. In Europe, part of the problem the group faces is labour costs....
February 14, 2017
Anjana Ahuja
Plaques, tangles and the mystery of Alzheimer’s disease
...Lilly and Astra Zeneca are partnering on one example codenamed AZD3293. Another Lilly inhibitor, though, has already been abandoned because of liver toxicity....
November 29, 2016
News in-depthEuropean companies
Tension between Paris and Berlin rises over PSA and GM job fears
...Concerns in Britain, where Opel operates under the Vauxhall brand, are primarily around the Ellesmere Port plant, which builds Astra cars for the UK and the continent....
February 19, 2017
US & Canadian companies
GM warns of more cuts in Europe as Brexit bites
...It produced 259,000 cars in Germany, and also has manufacturing sites in Poland, Hungary, Austria and Spain....
October 25, 2016

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