Friday Brief 21/07/2023 (W29)

Good afternoon and welcome to this week’s Friday Brief! We hope you are all enjoying the Summer and have had a successful week.

To begin we would like to let you know that the MTA will be exhibiting at EMO in Hall 8 stand number B51 with the International Pavilions. As the MTA are exhibitors, we are able to offer you guest e-tickets to visit the show (full event tickets are usually Euro 65 or day tickets are Euro 36). As the MTA are exhibitors, we are able to offer you guest e-tickets to visit the show (full event tickets are usually Euro 65 or day tickets are Euro 36). Follow the link in the story to take you straight to the registration page.

The Department for Business and Trade is holding a second round would of industry roundtables on the UKCA regime. The Department for Business and Trade also asks firms to complete a survey on the costs of conformity assessment. Trade associations and their members are asked to complete the survey if they are involved in the manufacture, import, distribution, or selling of manufactured goods. Find more details in the story.

BSI have three new standards awaiting your comments this week. The proposals read: Test code for machine tools — Part 13: Guidelines on acceptance tests for machine tools used as coordinate measuring machines, Industrial automation systems and integration — JT file format specification for 3D visualization and Automation systems and integration — Digital twin framework for manufacturing — Part 5: Part 5: Digital thread for digital twin.

The 13^th International Conference on Compressors and their Systems will be held this September in London. Early bird registration is open until the 6th of August. This conference provides a forum where developments in air, gas and refrigeration compressors, vacuum pumps, expanders, related systems and components will be discussed. Check out more information in the story.

The Friday Brief has been shortlisted as a finalist in the Association Excellence Awards Best Association Newsletter category. We have worked out that the FB has been going for around 15 years now and sending out roughly 50 editions every year that is around 750 editions that have been sent out over the years! Take a look at the story below to find out more.

Whether you’ve been running a business for years or you’re new to management, our Associate Member, Citation have got you covered with their FREE pregnancy guide to manage all aspects of maternity leave. Download the free article below.

Jack Semple, Secretary of EAMA has drawn our attention to a new online portal for accessing grants from central government; you can find out more about this through the story below. Another note from Jack includes an article where we have been asked by the Department for Business & Trade to circulate a survey from the Home Office. It is regarding the role of Responsible persons under the Fire Safety Order 2005 – there is more information on this in the article below.

Jack Semple, Secretary of EAMA attend an event organised by Onward (a centre-right think tank) at which the industry minister Nus Ghani spoke about both the importance of the manufacturing sector and its lack of a “sexy image”. In the article below, he reports on the event and adds some comments on what the Minister had to say.

This week’s economic news article is all about May; we report on the UK manufacturing output and GDP figures, the industrial production figures for Europe and the latest US market trends for machine tools and cutting tools. For the first three of these, the picture is best described as flat with some bright sparks for capital goods, while in the US, the recent trends of falling demand for machine tools (but still at a good level) coupled with a continuing recovery in the tooling market are continuing.

Finally this week, we still have a couple of surveys open for input from MTA and EIA members. The MTA Business Survey for June, which you can find at www.mta.org.uk/mta-business-survey-jun23 will be closing early next week; there is a little more time for the EIA Quarterly Survey but we would encourage you to let us have your input via the online form at https://www.mta.org.uk/eia-quarterly-survey-2nd-quarter-2023.

That concludes the Friday Brief for this week! We hope you have a wonderful weekend and we look forward to ‘seeing’ you again next week!

ECONOMIC NEWS – UK

UK Manufacturing Output , May 2023: Data published by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) last week showed that manufacturing output fell by -0.2% compared to April but thanks to a strong month in March, output in the latest 3 months (March to May 2023) was +0.8% higher than in the previous period (December 2022, […]

Manufacturing sector lacks ‘sexy cachet’ – minister

Jack Semple, Secretary of EAMA reports that industry minister Nus Ghani said this week that manufacturing is “absolutely critical” to the UK economy but “it doesn’t have sexy cachet”. Speaking at an event in Westminster organised by Onward, a leading centre-right think tank, she emphasised the importance of the manufacturing sector, which she said was […]

Fire Safety Order – Responsible Persons Survey

The Home Office invited participate in a survey for Responsible Persons (RPs) under the Fire Safety Order (FSO) 2005. The survey, which is anonymous, will ask questions about you, the buildings you are responsible for, and about your experiences of current and awareness of future fire safety legislation changes. All findings from the survey will […]

New portal for government grants

Jack Semple at EAMA reports that the Cabinet Office is promoting a new UK-wide online portal for accessing central government support, which it says will made it easier for firms to find and obtain grant support. The portal “could save [the taxpayer] up to £270 million through increased efficiency and preventing fraud”, it says. Firms […]

FREE GUIDE | Pregnancy at workplace

Employers can find managing pregnant employees challenging – how does maternity leave work? How much maternity pay are they entitled to? What are the Health & Safety implications? Whether you’ve been running a business for years or you’re new to management, our Associate Member, Citation have got you covered with their FREE pregnancy guide to […]

MTA shortlisted at Association Excellence Awards

Early Bird Registrations for the Compressor Conference

The 13th International Conference on Compressors and their Systems will be held this September in London. Early bird registration is open until the 6th of August. This conference provides a forum where developments in air, gas and refrigeration compressors, vacuum pumps, expanders, related systems and components will be discussed. The program will contain keynote addresses, […]

BSI Standards

Please be advised that a New Work Item Proposal has been loaded to the BSI Standards Development Portal for comment. Any comments received will be submitted to the national committee IST/33 “Information security, cybersecurity and privacy protection” for consideration when deciding the UK response to the associated Standards Development Organisation. 1) Proposal: ISO/PWI TS 230-13, […]

EMO – 18 – 23 SEPTEMBER 2023 – HANNOVER

The MTA will be exhibiting at EMO in Hall 8 stand number B51 with the International Pavilions. Please will you advise whether your company is exhibiting at the show either indepentley or with/as distributors or agents so that we can include you in our promotion at the show. As the MTA are exhibitors, we are […]

UKCA – more roundtables and a survey

UKCA – industry roundtables The Department for Business and Trade is holding a second round would of industry roundtables on the UKCA regime. They will be held from August 2nd to 17th in London, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Southampton, Darlington, Manchester, and Birmingham. You can sign up to attend, here. “We are keen to gain further input […]