Manufacturing in Britain

[Tango13]

Hooli said:

Tango13 said:

Triumph motorcycles in Hinckley are exporting 75~80% of what they build, they are building bikes that are genuine world beaters and people are buying them because of that.

Aren't all the retro ones built in Thailand?

Who cares about the retro stuff?

[hidetheelephants]

FrankyH said:

It's the same story in all areas. Take shipbuilding for example. As a bare minimum every single Royal Navy ship should be designed and built in a British shipyard. Recently, a contract to build 4 Royal Navy tankers went to Korea.

If you're going to rant get it right; the tankers are RFA not RN, the matelots on board are civvies.

[McFsC]

The chemical manufacturing industry here on Teesside has struggled massively in the last few years but it's starting to see big improvements.

A korean firm ( Lotte ) has bought a plant and is investing £60m on building a new plant and SABIC ( Saudi owned ) spent £400m on a new built plant aswell as purchasing a huge plant from Huntsman which are both now online.

The only gripe from me is why can't these companies be UK owned as they often only invest to get the technology ( patents etc... ) and the research centres to build the same plants abroad.

Another 20 years or so and the decline will really speed up.

There's a huge amount of Biofuel and other associated power/energy creation going on at the minute also.

[cardigankid]

mph1977 said:

what can we do to help manufacturing in Britain ? take out and shoot the leadership of he 'superunions' and Bob Crow ... this isn't the 1970s anymore .

it's interesting how none UK companies can manufacture stuff in the Uk using Uk labour ...

No, the people you would need to shoot are not the Unions, but the politicians and the bankers, in some cases the same thing, and a few others who like buying foreign for its own sake. Like Chief Constables. Do that and its problem solved.

Rolls and Bentley are at least now in the hands of companies who, even if they are not British, are in it for the long term, not a quick pump and dump, which is really what British society is about. it has never been fashionable in this country to get your hands dirty.