Platform for success

摘要

While housing market and bank liquidity worries fill the mainstream press, in the manufacturing economy, specifically the metalcutting engineering sector, things looking pretty good. And as the CBI commented in its most recent Regional Trends Survey (published October): "Over the past three months, manufacturing has seen positive growth in new orders across most UK regions, despite the impact of the global credit squeeze on confidence." And it added: "Demand for UK manufactures this year has been boosted by the eurozone's solid performance. The fall in export optimism in the reflects fears of a loss of momentum as the global credit squeeze dampens growth prospects.