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Blogs
Marketing for recruitment: the Gen Z challenge
28 July 2025
Skills shortages are hampering UK manufacturing, with Make UK’s Industrial Strategy Skills Commission report, Skills for Success: The Reforms Essential to Our Economic Future, highlighting that there are currently 55,000 unfilled long-term vacancies in the UK manufacturing sector. This is costing the economy £6 billion in lost output each year. Increased...
Industry Insights
Q and A with Nick Betts, Group Business Development Director at NTG Group
25 July 2025
Based in North East England, NTG Group comprises two specialist engineering companies whose combined strengths create a formidable proposition. Established in 1979 as Newcastle Tool and Gauge, NTG operates from a 45,000 sq ft state-of-the-art facility in Gateshead, UK and specialises in high-precision machining, CNC milling, CNC turning, EDM wire erosion,...
News
A bold new brand for Horizon Works
25 June 2025
We are delighted to unveil the new Horizon Works brand and website! The brand is a bold step forward for Horizon Works, which was founded in 2010 by our Managing Director, Samantha Vassallo. It is built around a modular, shifting logo that reflects our services and the key sectors we support: advanced...
Blogs
From making points to making plans – the new industrial strategy in focus
25 June 2025
On the eve of the launch of the new Industrial Strategy, manufacturing voices were heard loud and clear at the Make UK Manufacturing Dinner and Conference on June 18 and 19, at Sedgefield, County Durham.We were at Hardwick Hall Hotel last week as Drinks Reception Sponsor and Exhibitor - and...
Q&A
Q&A with Simon Green, Chief Executive of Edge Innovation
25 June 2025
Simon Green is a familiar face across North East England’s innovation ecosystem. He founded Edge Innovation - which supports innovation with and across the public, private and charitable sectors - in 2015. He span out the Innovation SuperNetwork and Rural Design Centre. And he set up Northumberland Community Energy in...
Blogs
Marketing for the nuclear renaissance
3 June 2025
The UK’s nuclear sector has a new-found vitality. And it’s driven by the UK Government’s aim to have generated 24GW of new nuclear capacity by 2050, providing 25% of the nation’s electricity. January 2024 saw the Government issue a Civil Nuclear Roadmap, which included a commitment to deploy Small Modular Reactors (SMRs)...
