08 May 2026 // ENGEL Financial Results, Investing in UK Skills, and Eliminating Short Shots
In today’s brief:
📊 Global Update: The ENGEL Group reports its 2025/26 financial results, highlighting a EUR 1.4 billion revenue. We explore the CEO’s call for a more stable industrial policy in Europe to safeguard long-term investment and competitiveness for UK and European manufacturers.
🎓 Skills & Training: Great Central Plastics invests in its production team through a specialist training programme with ENGEL. The initiative focuses on bridging the gap between theory and practical application to improve process consistency and reduce waste on the shop floor.
🌟 Future Talent: The six finalists for the 2026 Design Innovation in Plastics award complete an intensive training week at FANUC UK’s academy. The course, delivered by Sierra 57 Consult, provides the next generation of designers with critical insights into polymer science ahead of today’s final judging in London.
🛠️ Technical Insight: Alliance Tooling continues its series on injection moulding defects, this time focusing on short shots. The report details how many filling issues can be resolved at the design and tooling stage rather than through processing adjustments alone.
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