The UK has dropped out of the top ten global manufacturing nations for the first time, as reported by Make UK. Discover the factors behind this shift and the urgent call for a long-term industrial strategy to revitalise the sector.
    • PolandIsAStateOfMindEnglish
      25·
      2 months ago

      Apparently their main production branches are chemistry products, pharmaceuticals, machinery, some electronics and metals.

      • loathesome dongeaterMAEnglish
        17·
        2 months ago

        I tried to look into it too. The org mentioned (Make UK) has reports for “quarterly outlooks” as they call it but it for reason only mentions percent change per sector rather than total output. I only skimmed it poorly so I could have missed some things. Also I am too dumb to read these things.

        There is a Wikipedia article on “Manufacturing in UK” which says that a significant portion of their output is stuff like cars and airplane parts. Something interesting it mentions is that a lot (maybe all) car companies that started in England have now been bought by foreign entities. For example, Tata (from India) have bought Jaguar which I find mind boggling. There is only one motorcycle company that is proper Bri’ish right now.

    • Nationalgoatism [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      171·
      2 months ago

      Motorcycles, tractors and other machines which require goblin fingers as thin as chop sticks to service because the bolts are in such unnecessarily tight places.