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Resideo and Honeywell plan to close their neighbouring Motherwell factories, with 207 jobs at risk
Resideo is moving its heating-controls production from Newhouse in Lanarkshire to its plants in Brno and Nagykanizsa. Honeywell proposes to move work from the site next door to other Honeywell sites, including Poole. A Bosch site in Suffolk is going the same way.
The Industrial Brief · 21 October 2026 · 4 min read
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Microsoft pulls out of Nscale's planned data centre in Loughton, Essex
Microsoft was the only announced customer for Nscale's planned site, The Telegraph reported. Neither the paper nor Microsoft has said why it pulled out. Nscale says it is looking at other ways to power the site.
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High-NA is waiting on a bigger photomask
TSMC, Samsung, Intel and ASML have agreed the industry must leave the 6-inch photomask. High-NA already throws away a third of a shift on stitching. 2031 is closer than it looks.
The Industrial Brief · 21 Sept 2026 · 8 min
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Chip plants are going up faster than the technicians to run them
America can pour concrete for chip plants. It cannot yet pour people into them. The shortage is about to set the pace of the industrial build-out.
The Industrial Brief · 18 Sept 2026 · 9 min
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Design changes are still landing after the tools are cut
A drawing that has never met a fixture is still being released as finished. The plants that are on time keep geometry, process and inspection in one file.
The Industrial Brief · 16 Sept 2026 · 8 min
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Most plant simulations never get used on the shift
The useful models cover one bottleneck with live data. A picture of the whole site, last updated at the last improvement workshop, does not run a shift.
The Industrial Brief · 11 Sept 2026 · 8 min
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