Renishaw has appointed Kasim Hussain as its new group general counsel and company secretary. Hussain, who joined Renishaw in July 2024, will lead the group’s legal, compliance and company secretarial functions, including the regional legal and compliance teams. With substantial experience of working in a listed environment, Hussain will provide strategic direction to Renishaw’s board of directors and executive committee. He will also advise the company on all matters of risk and governance. Prior to joining Renishaw, Hussain was group divisional counsel at the FTSE 100 global engineering group, Spirax Group.

More information www.renishaw.com

The MTC (Manufacturing Technology Centre) in Coventry is providing the UK with the capability to disassemble and assemble prototype battery modules and packs based on large-format, high-power/energy density cells. The Hazardous Operations Cell (HazOps) will fill a significant UK gap in enabling high-risk R&D activities. Featuring robotics, machine vision and laser systems, the cell will provide a flexible and remote manufacturing facility for research into hazardous manufacturing processes. Notably, the facility will enable research into highly-automated battery disassembly for the recovery of critical raw materials.

More information www.the-mtc.org

Two leading figures in ‘clean growth’ are calling for a more co-ordinated approach to net zero future skills if the UK is going to reach its target of 480,000 ‘green’ jobs by 2030. Coventry University’s Carl Perrin (associate pro-vice chancellor) and Deepak Farmah (director of the Centre for Advanced Low Carbon Propulsion Systems) have made the rallying call as part of new research that Coventry University is completing to understand the commercial and sector-specific barriers of training and reskilling workforces for the decarbonisation challenge. To gather views, a survey (link below) is now underway.

Take the survey at www.bit.ly/3TfP5Uu