More evidence that energy costs are hurting UK manufacturing

Via BusinessGreen I see that there is fresh survey evidence that rising and uncertain energy costs are an increasing concern to UK manufacturers.

I have argued before that UK energy policy is placing UK manufacturers at a significant competitive disadvantage to overseas rivals. It is this impact on their cost base which means that they are unable to afford the same prices for secondary material inputs as reprocessors and manufacturers in other parts of the world.

I do wish that the UK reprocessing sector would recognise this as the principal cause of their relative difficulties, rather than consistently trying to push additional costs on to waste producers and harming other productive parts of the economy.