Manufacturing

UK manufacturers had a sunny July with the level of orders across the industry as a whole as high as it has been for 20 months, according to the latest CBI survey figures

Electronic design specialist ML Electronics (MLE) is aiming to dramatically increase its turnover from £1m to £5m within the next three years with plans to provide manufacturing services

Asic and multi-chip module maker MCE-Tewkesbury has made what it describes as a "multi-million package of investments" to improve its custom manufacturing capacity

Yorkshire Forward has invested £6.5m in a manufacturing facility in Rotherham as part of the Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre being created with Boeing

Micron has taken the wraps off a new chip packaging technology that it believes can reduce chip size by 40 to 50 per cent while lowering cost and speeding time to market through the elimination of wire bonding

Export business is holding up for manufacturers and firms are upbeat about demand over the next three months, even though orders stayed unchanged in the quarter to July, according to the latest Quarterly Industrial Trends survey by the CBI

Remploy, the UK Government supported manufacturing firm, is to be reorganised, a process that could lead to the closure of some of its factories

UK wafer production firm IQE has acquired US company EMD, which specialises in epitaxial wafers for wireless products, in a deal worth $16m

UK printed circuit board manufacturer Trackwise has acquired the manufacturing assets of Microwave Components, the Kent-based firm which went into administration last year

Fabless semiconductor companies are still on the rise, and consumer electronics will continue to drive the growth of the chip industry, said Wim Roelandts at Semicon West