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...Vaughan, associate portfolio manager at Brandywine Global....
...It intends to replace existing manufacturing processes with an electric arc furnace, which makes steel from scrap and requires a much smaller workforce....
...Tumble Tuesday | Shares in some of Britain’s biggest power companies fell sharply yesterday over concerns that the government will hit electricity generators as well as oil and gas companies with a windfall...
...The company’s competitiveness also calls into question the notion that the era of super-cheap manufacturing in China is over....
...The growing market for plant-based meat has meant increasing production for market leaders, helping them to lower manufacturing costs....
...(WSJ) How to balance profits and purpose — FT readers weigh in In a special five-part Company of the Future series, the FT examined the trade-offs companies will have to make to survive an uncertain future...
...The figures underpin the headline statistics for gross domestic product but are rarely explored — though some caution is needed as Nick Vaughan, chief economic adviser at the ONS, told a conference last...
...Peter Dundas and Evangelo Bousis Designer and company president, Dundas How are you spending the summer? PD: We’re on the Cycladic islands. Right now we’re on Naxos....
...Mr Vaughan said the technology would give the UK back leadership of the titanium industry that it lost in the 1990s....
...Metalysis is positioning itself to become the leading titanium powder supplier for 3D printing, also known as additive manufacturing, a technology that big industrial companies are looking at as a means...
...But not all quoted food companies have proved poor investments. Mr Bushnell points to the examples of Cranswick and Hilton Food – from the meat packing arena from which Mr Boparan has emerged....
...“Companies get a huge amount of value through understanding the manufacturing process and this helps them to design and create better products.”...
...“Everyone now realises that commerce and manufacturing is the way forward, not stocks and real estate," he says....
...Manufacturing held up well in the early months of the credit crunch, but now companies are beginning to feel the squeeze....
...rather than as a traditional manufacturing supplier....
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