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British manufacturers reported weaker orders despite an improving production outlook. The CBI’s October survey showed a sharp reversal in order books, while expected output moved close to stability and anticipated selling prices increased.
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Rheinmetall has opened a specialised weapons factory in Telford, Shropshire. Its UK Gun Hall has begun producing barrels and breeches, with planned peak annual capacity of 245 barrels for tank and artillery systems.
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IPC Mouldings is expanding aerospace production at its Carrickfergus factory. The £1.7 million investment covers equipment, software and factory improvements, creating 16 jobs and supporting a four-year export sales target.
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Renishaw’s latest quarter delivered record revenue as semiconductor demand surged. Group sales reached £251.8 million, while demand for precision encoders and industrial measurement systems prompted further investment in manufacturing capacity.
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Triton has completed its purchase of chemical producer United Initiators. The German manufacturer operates nine production facilities and supplies organic peroxides, persulfates and hydrogen peroxide to industrial customers.
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NVIDIA’s cuDSS sparse solver has reached general availability for developers. The CUDA-X library accelerates sparse linear equations in engineering software, with named integrations covering semiconductor, structural and fluid simulations.
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NVIDIA has expanded European AI factory infrastructure and software plans. Its DSX reference designs and trials address dry cooling, grid-responsive computing and power allocation, with efficiency figures limited to specified conditions.
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The EU and New Caledonia have signed a minerals partnership. Their memorandum covers processing, investment, energy infrastructure and skills, but neither allocates funding nor guarantees future nickel deliveries.
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SCHMID has secured an equipment order supporting Malaysian electronics production. Worth more than €25m, the agreement concerns high-density interconnect manufacturing, while the customer, equipment mix and delivery schedule remain undisclosed.
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Sereact has connected returns handling data with robot software retraining. NVIDIA simulation and Nebius cloud tools generate and test new control policies before supervised trials at selected CEVA Logistics stations.
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