Annual Manufacturing Report 2018: UK manufacturers confident, but Brexit a deep concern

Posted on 19 Mar 2018 by Jonny Williamson

The Annual Manufacturing Report 2018, published by Hennik Research, says UK manufacturers are poised to take on the world, but are failing to pull the trigger on a bright future because of uncertainties surrounding the outcome of Brexit negotiations and the threatened shortage of skilled workers in the coming decade.

The report’s author, The Manufacturer’s Editorial Director Nick Peters said, “UK manufacturing has come a long way in recent years, as we have seen from its stellar performance in 2017. Manufacturers have bought the argument that only those companies that adopt the very latest Fourth Industrial Revolution digital technologies, known as Industry 4.0, can compete on the…

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