Taking a wider perspective on the broader UK manufacturing sector, ECI Software Solutions’ Shane Taylor explores why AI, data and people power will define the year ahead.

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Situated at the firm’s historic Smeed Dean brickworks, wienerberger UK & Ireland has opened its first concrete tile factory in the South of England.

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Forterra states that its work to decarbonise brickmaking is set to enter a new phase, as plans for the East Coast Hydrogen Pipeline — set to pass near the manufacturer’s Kirton brickworks — pave the way for an expansion of its hydrogen-fuel trials beyond its Measham factory.

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