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FURNACE is a digital magazine that champions all that is great about British Industry and beyond.
FURNACE is a quarterly publication that looks at the people that make things and make things happen.
LATEST ARTICLES FROM ISSUE 04
Issue 04 , Opinion
Taking a sledgehammer to engineering stereotypes.
Award-winning chartered electrical engineer Kerrine Bryan challenges perception.
Company Profile , Issue 04 , London Focus
Can-do attitude.
Stu Wilkinson is that rare breed: a fourth-generation London industrialist.
Issue 04 , Photo Story
In the line of beauty.
Alastair Philip Wiper, the Copenhagen-based photographer, loves, lives and breathes manufacturing.
Issue 04 , London Focus , Photo Story
Making An Impact: London’s Factory Buildings.
What makes a great cityscape? Glorious factories, according to Lukas Novotny.
Issue 04 , London Focus
The Future’s Bright, The Future’s Industrial.
A focus on the capital's industrial land.
Issue 04 , London Focus , Opinion
London Industry Needs You.
Mark Brearley makes the argument for keeping factories in the city.
Issue 04 , Sector Profile
Liquid Gold.
The vaping industry may be in its infancy, but it’s already punching above its weight.
Entrepreneur , Issue 04
Dairy Queen.
Razan Alsous talks about her journey from Damascus to ‘Yorkshire Squeaky’.
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Hero Q&A , Issue 03
Meet the engineer behind Ocado.
Mark Fryer’s systems have helped make Ocado the world’s biggest online supermarket.
Entrepreneur , Issue 03
Jennifer Newman designed her first table for her own garden.
Now her furniture sits in the offices of Nokia, Google and Amazon.
Issue 03 , Sector Focus
Where would we be without Data Centres?
As modern life gets more digital, data centres are mushrooming across the globe.
Company Profile , Issue 03
Bespoke, Made-to-order, Handcrafted.
Terms that now apply to that classic Summer’s day stalwart: the Ice Cream Van.
Issue 03 , Sector Focus
Excessive packaging has given itself a bad name.
How can businesses grab this opportunity and deliver a packaging sea-change?
Issue 03 , New Artisan
Face Furniture Fanatic.
How does someone go from being a rock musician to making hand-crafted eyewear?
Expert Commentary , Issue 03
Apprenticeships.
How could the Government’s new apprenticeship levy be better?
Issue 03 , Photo Story
Magicking Ideas into Manufactured Goods.
A London design firm has perfected the art of bringing start-ups’ concepts to market.
Issue 02 , Photo Story
From mountainside to mass production.
Upscaling China’s age-old crafts for a wider audience.
Entrepreneur , Issue 02
Charlie Bigham.
Keeping his cottage-industry ethos when his cottage pie business is booming.
Company Profile , Issue 02
Brompton.
After years of development the city commuter’s friend is going electric.
Issue 02 , Sector Profile
Many Unhappy Returns.
Ingenious advances in reverse logistics coming to the rescue of customer returns.