Friday Brief 08/12/2023 (W49)

Good morning and welcome to this week’s Friday Brief! Christmas work parties have officially kicked off this week! It’s great to see everyone enjoying the festivities with their colleagues this time of year!

This week we would like to start with an invitation. MTA members are invited to participate at the upcoming Autosport Engineering show which is part of the Autosport International exhibition at a significantly reduced rate. Autosport International combines both a trade and consumer show that takes place annually at the National Exhibition Centre, Birmingham and is attended by 600 exhibitors and 94,000 visitors from 60 different countries. Please take a look at the story for more details.

The Department for Business & Trade (DBT) website offers the opportunity for UK suppliers to promote their product and services to overseas buyers with the endorsement of the UK Government. The website is used by DBT based in the UK and overseas to source UK companies. Click through to the websites in the story to add your company to list and find out more.

An exclusive offer* to provide private medical plans for members of Manufacturing Technologies Association has been arranged with HMCA, including a £50 gift card or £100 off your first-year subscription upon joining a private medical plan. HMCA offer four levels of private medical plans for individuals, family groups and companies as well as dental plans, hospital cash plans, travel plans and vehicle breakdown recovery. Read more about HMCA below.

We have 3 new BSI Standards this week awaiting your comments. The Proposals read, , Industrial automation systems and integration — JT file format specification for 3D visualization — Part 4: Version 3, Occupational health and safety management — Guidelines for remote working and Data quality — Part 119: Application of ISO 8000-115 to transport unit identifiers. Check out the Scopes and purposes in the story below.

The Department for Business and Trade UK Export Academy have launched webinars for new exporters and those looking to developing their knowledge, through their export series of Essentials, Masterclasses, Sectors and Markets. To gain access please click through the link in the story.

CECIMO, the European group for associations of manufacturing technology manufacturers, held its annual Forum meetings this week and we bring you news of the discussions and announcements from that event, including the latest economic outlook, the new president of CECIMO and the winner of the inaugural Machine Tool Innovation Award.

The MTA and Irwin Mitchell will host a one-hour Q&A webinar to cover the main green legal issues and what you should do, for reporting and reducing liabilities. The amount of environmental, climate change and ESG legislation is rising, especially for manufacturers. Join us on Thursday 11th January 2024 at 10.00am to hear from Irwin Mitchell environmental partners Claire Petricca-Riding and Keith Davidson at Irwin Mitchell who will ask your questions. Sign up on the MTA website, you can find the link below.

In a relatively quite week of economic news, the main item is the latest update on European GDP in the 3^rd quarter. Overall, this was flat both compared to the previous quarter and with a year earlier, although there are some variations between countries – most notably, Ireland (which is often distorted by the activities of multi-national companies who have their headquarters there) saw a significant reduction which dragged the overall average down. We also have an update on the manufacturing PMI data, which was released last Friday, covering the data that was reported after our publishing deadline.

Finally, the November edition of the MTA Business Survey is still open for your input – the secure online form is at https://www.mta.org.uk/mta-business-survey-nov23 and, with thanks to those who have already responded, we hope you can spare a couple of minutes to give us your input as we compile this quick overview of the situation across the manufacturing technology spectrum in the UK.

That concludes this week’s newsletter! We hope you have a wonderful full of festivities and we look forward to ‘seeing’ you again next week!

ECONOMIC NEWS

European GDP, 3rd Quarter 2023: Eurostat has issued its third estimate of economic growth (or rather the lack of it) for the 3rd quarter of 2023. They have kept their previous estimate of no change in GDP for the EU as a whole but a quarter-on-quarter fall of -0.1% for the Euro-zone. However, the comparison […]

CECIMO Brussels Forum

Over two days this week, CECIMO held it Autumn meetings in the form of the Brussels Forum. It was opened by Markus Schulte, Head of Cabinet to Iliana Ivanova, European Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education & Youth at the European Commission who highlighted the critical role of manufacturing, and the machine tool sector in […]

JOIN THE UK EXPORT ACADEMY FOR WEBINARS ON INTERNERNATIONAL TRADE

The Department for Business and Trade UK Export Academy have launched webinars for new exporters and those looking to developing their knowledge, through their export series of Essentials, Masterclasses, Sectors and Markets. Members should join the Academy on https://www.great.gov.uk/export-academy/ to gain access to these sources of information. Topics include:

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 AMT/4 “Industrial data and manufacturing interfaces” for consideration when deciding the UK response to the associated Standards Development Organisation. Please visit: https://standardsdevelopment.bsigroup.com/projects/9023-09617 Comment period end […]

HMCA

An exclusive offer* to provide private medical plans for members of Manufacturing Technologies Association has been arranged with HMCA, including a £50 gift card or £100 off your first-year subscription upon joining a private medical plan. If you already have a private medical plan, are you paying too much? You could save money by transferring […]

Add Your Company To The Department For Business & Trade UK Suppliers List

The Department for Business & Trade (DBT) website offers the opportunity for UK suppliers to promote their product and services to overseas buyers with the endorsement of the UK Government. The website is used by DBT based in the UK and overseas to source UK companies Overseas companies can click onto the following website: https://www.great.gov.uk/international/trade/ […]

Autosport International Exhibiting Opportunity

MTA members are invited to participate at the upcoming Autosport Engineering show which is part of the Autosport International exhibition at a significantly reduced rate. Autosport International combines both a trade and consumer show that takes place annually at the National Exhibition Centre, Birmingham and is attended by 600 exhibitors and 94,000 visitors from 60 […]

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