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...Executives from India’s Tata Steel, including chief executive T V Narendran, have flown in for the talks with union leaders in London to discuss plans for the future of the company’s UK operations, which...
...T V Narendran, the Tata Steel chief executive, said last week he did not rule out such a plant, if conditions were right....
...The company’s UK operations have been losing about £1.5mn a day. T V Narendran, Tata Steel’s chief executive, told the Financial Times the status quo was “not sustainable”....
...Chris Williamson of the Community union at Rotherham said he would “do his “utmost to ensure there are no compulsory redundancies”....
...Founded in Stratford-upon-Avon in 1951 by warlock and screenwriter Cecil Williamson, it moved to the Cornish coast in 1960....
...Tata Steel’s chief executive, T V Narendran, warned that time was running short to make the business sustainable given high energy prices....
...But Williamson said high inflation was “not only hitting demand but also limiting manufacturing production and service sector activity in some cases”....
...However, the survey also found that many companies are struggling to keep up with rising demand, which is causing shortages of materials, such as semiconductors and steel, and drove up the selling prices...
...Many eurozone companies are struggling to keep up with rising demand, which is causing shortages of materials such as semiconductors and steel and driving up the selling prices of goods and services....
...At the time of the Lochaber deal, Sturgeon hailed it as a new chapter in Scottish manufacturing....
...“You have to take him at his word,” added Chris Williamson, another member of Community who works at Rotherham....
...At the southernmost tip of Texas, alongside the Gulf of Mexico, a gleaming stainless steel rocket has been rising from the salt marshes....
...Tristram Hunt is director of the V&A and a former MP for Stoke-on-Trent Central....
...(Bloomberg, Politico) Brussels wants to ramp up pharmaceutical manufacturing capacity in the EU to ease vaccine bottlenecks and delays....
...But, he warned, “higher unemployment, companies going bust, as well as plans to further cut back on staff and falling orders, suggest that the current V-shaped recovery could quickly run out of steam”....
...The PMIs’ trajectories might look v-shaped. But in terms of convincing us that we’re in the throes of a v-shaped recovery, they do anything but....
...Overall, about 81 per cent of UK service providers and 75 per cent of manufacturing companies reported a fall in business activity during April, which was overwhelming attributed to the pandemic....
...Manufacturing and services companies across the eurozone shed jobs as they sought to cut capacity due to weaker demand, despite countries’ widespread use of furlough schemes to reduce businesses’ immediate...
...“The problem isn’t the trade deficit,” he said, arguing that intellectual property theft and steel dumping are more immediate problems to be addressed....
...It is harder to make up lost ground in services than it is in manufacturing.” In a short-term downturn, capital expenditures are only delayed....
...signs of a revival in the eastern Scottish city driven by expansion in its health and education sector and a thriving computer games industry — and sealed this year by the opening of a spectacular £81m V&...
...GFG, which is controlled by the family of Sanjeev Gupta, the steel tycoon, announced on Tuesday it had received planning permission from Highland council for what it said would be the UK’s only large scale...
...Edyta Bathgate, a Polish-born manufacturing manager at a company that prepares antipasti for supermarkets, says: “I’ve come across a lot of managers who said they knew what they were thinking and didn’t...
...As steel factories up and down the UK closed and thousands of workers lost their jobs, Chris Williamson feared the worst....
...Liberty said it would triple the Rotherham site’s capacity to melt scrap into liquid steel, making the company the UK’s largest steel recycler....
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