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GKN is planning to shut an automotive factory in Birmingham with the loss of 500 jobs.
The world’s largest seller of electric and hybrid cars will not consider building its first European car factory in the UK because of the impact of Brexit.
Hermann Houser says Britain has no chance of being technologically independent after leaving the EU.
David Bailey looks at the implications of BMW’s decision to stop producing the electric MINI at its Oxford plant and sets out what the decisions tells us about the UK automotive industry post-Brexit.
Brexit and inflation blamed over ‘devastating’ plans to close Llangefni 2 Sisters factory
25/01/2023
Brexit and inflation have been blamed as two of the key factors behind plans to close a poultry factory on Anglesey. / He said the company’s chief executive had cited Brexit and the impact on trading conditions as one of the main causes behind the factory’s potential closure.
With 70 per cent of vans being exported into mainland Europe, tariffs could make the future of the plant unworkable.
Brexit delays have led Perth-based cannabis oil company Voyager to acquire a manufacturing factory in Poland for £1.5 million.
Survey finds majority of factory owners have cut investment, as insolvencies hit six-year high.
Brexit one year on: 'Desperate need' to tackle crippling staff shortages in Scotland's food and drink sector
03/01/2022
There is a "desperate need" to reform immigration rules to address crippling staff shortages in Scotland's food and drink sector, industry leaders have said.
Brexit tariffs could close UK car factories
04/08/2023
One of the world’s biggest carmakers has warned it may be forced to close its UK factories if the government can’t renegotiate part of the Brexit deal with the EU.
New Brexit tariffs on electric car parts threaten the future of Vauxhall’s huge factory in Luton, the plant’s director has warned.
‘Part of the damage done by leaving the EU’, says Hague after firm goes into administration.
The 730 redundancies at a chicken processing plant could be the “first of many” such blows to the Welsh economy the Leader of Anglesey County Council has warned.
Customs checks and border queues cited as leading barriers, as only 29% of firms say sales increased in Q2.
British car factories will be forced to close with the loss of thousands of jobs if the UK government does not renegotiate its Brexit deal immediately, automaker Stellantis has warned.
"As an investor we want a country to be stable," the European president of BYD declared.
A company that praised Brexit as "excellent" for business is now near collapse after the government rejected a £30m ($34m) advance.
Electric car prices set to rise by 10% from 2024: Brexit trade tariff to make them more expensive and delay price parity with petrols and diesels
13/12/2022
Many electric vehicles made and sold in the UK and Europe are set to become more expensive from 2024, which will delay price parity with petrol and diesel cars, it has emerged.
The UK is struggling to build a battery industry—and its new isolation isn't helping.
Although the UK was their first choice, the uncertainty over Brexit forced Tesla to change their plans.
The IHS Markit/CIPS Purchasing Managers’ Index showed a reading of 63.9 in June, down from May’s record high of 65.6.
Manufacturing organisation Make UK said the sector is battling to fill 95,000 vacancies.
The long term future of a major vehicle plant and 1,500 jobs could be put in jeopardy if part of the Brexit treaty is not renegotiated, its plant director has warned.
Fears are growing of Christmas chaos for British businesses and consumers after industry warned of factory shutdowns within weeks as fuel prices spiral upwards.
ISI is set to pull out of the UK to focus on its European operations - despite Brexit being heralded as the 'fishing industry's salvation' by a local MP.
Smoothie maker Innocent Drinks has fallen into the red after splurging on a new purpose-built factory in the EU post-Brexit.
Only the EU member states are being considered to host a new European facility, says CEO Pat Gelsinger.
The boss of Intel says the US chipmaker is no longer considering building a factory in the UK because of Brexit.
Intel says Brexit means it is no longer considering the UK as the site to build a major new chip factory as part of its $95bn (£70bn) global expansion plans.
It is in Former Brexit Voters that the Flame of a Truly Impactful Rejoin Movement is Now Being Kindled
19/06/2023
Many of the leave voters George Llewelyn met in 2021 were dissatisfied Eurosceptics who are now ardent rejoiners. How did it happen?
Jeremy Hunt has offered one of Britain’s biggest car manufacturers half a billion pounds in government subsidies not to go abroad to build a new electric battery “giga-factory”.
Manufacturing job losses 'at six-year high'
01/03/2019
UK manufacturers are cutting jobs at the fastest pace for six years with confidence in the sector hit by Brexit uncertainty, according to a closely-watched survey.
Post-Brexit India deal could cut thousands of jobs in Leave-voting areas, and hike food prices
18/05/2023
British rice milling industry faces wipe-out from part of a trade deal being discussed with India. First proposed by Boris Johnson, it is also predicted to raise consumer food prices and break UK limits on pesticides.
Post-Brexit: Businesses hit by labour shortages call for Brexit rules to be relaxed [4 mins]
02/06/2021
As the UK economy begins the long road to recovery, many businesses are wondering: where have all the workers gone? ... From farms to factories and hospitality to haulage, many industries are warning they won’t be able to bounce back unless Brexit rules on workers are relaxed. We report from Kent.
Radioactive waste to pile up at hospitals, universities and factories due to supply fears
07/04/2019
Ministers told to own up about any risks to health and security, after limits are quietly relaxed. / Radioactive waste will be piled up above normal safety limits at hospitals, universities and factories because of fears that Brexit will disrupt supply chains.
The UK is accused of being ‘asleep at the wheel’ when it comes to industrial policy around new electric car and battery tech.
Carmaking giant urges UK government to renegotiate rules to avoid expensive tariffs.
Rishi Sunak’s government is understood to be lobbying the EU to delay a change in manufacturing rules in the Brexit trade deal after Vauxhall’s parent company warned it could shut its UK factories.
Fake it till you make it has been the guiding maxim of British government policy for national renewal since Brexit.
Trade body Make UK said 90% of businesses felt post-Brexit trading arrangements were still disrupting trade.
British factories slashed jobs in February and braced for Brexit by stockpiling goods at the fastest pace seen in any Group of Seven country since records started in the early 1990s, a survey showed on Friday.
UK factories' growth nears stand-still as new orders fall amid cost of living crisis - with Brexit still a 'thorn in the side' of manufacturers
01/07/2022
Duncan Brock, group director at the Chartered Institute of Procurement & Supply, said Brexit remained a 'thorn in the side' of manufacturers, as supply chain managers continued to report that 'ports and paperwork were their undoing' in June. / 'Some firms also noted that ongoing Brexit-related difficulties and weaker growth had impacted new order intakes from the EU,' the report added.
Rishi Sunak’s government is lobbying the EU to delay a change in manufacturing rules in the Brexit trade deal after the owner of Vauxhall warned it could shut its UK factories.
Ministers were warned of the dangers of the EU trade deadline two years ago. Now, up to 200,000 jobs and £11bn worth of UK car exports could be in jeopardy.
Stellantis, which also owns Citroen, Peugeot and Fiat and employs more than 5,000 people in the UK, says its UK investments were in the balance due to terms of Brexit trade deal.
Stellantis says it can no longer meet trade rules on sourcing of parts in Britain or EU after rise in raw material costs
The owner of the Ellesmere Port Vauxhall motor plant has warned it could close unless the Government renegotiates its Brexit trade deal with the EU.
Vauxhall-maker warns Brexit may close its Luton plant as it marks production of 1.5million Vivaro vans
01/06/2023
Car maker, Stellantis, has warned that Brexit trade renegotiations may be needed for its Luton plant to survive.
One of the world's biggest carmakers has warned it may have to close UK factories if the government does not renegotiate the Brexit deal.
Where are all those Brexit benefits?
20/05/2023
Project Fear has become Project Reality—just look at Britain’s car industry.
Officials have been accused of been "asleep at the wheel" as looming new rules covering electric vehicles approach.
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