Reuters:A small British manufacturer has become the first company in Europe to raise funds through sukuk, starting off an industry which has struggled to find traction in the wake of debt worries in Islamic finance centre Dubai.

International Innovative Technologies, a maker of industrial milling machines in northeast England, has raised $10 million (6 million pounds) through a private-equity-style sukuk to help develop new products, its legal adviser, Norton Rose, told Reuters...continue