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Red light as global supply chain index hits high risk level for first time
Added: 13 Jun 2022
Global supply chain resilience has reached the ‘high risk’ threshold on the Achilles Index for the …
New visa rules ‘create door to global manufacturing talent’ claim
Added: 31 May 2022
Two newly introduced work permit routes could help allow employees of overseas businesses to work i…
Valve that just keeps going secures new site contract
Added: 31 May 2022
A pressure reducing valve installed at King’s College Hospital, London has operated on a daily basi…
Clean air specialist cleans up on international orders
Added: 31 May 2022
Specialist clean air and containment manufacturer Envair Technology has reported an 18% year-on-yea…
Appointments: New IMechE president and key roles at Schneider, BCAS, Ashtead and ABB
Added: 31 May 2022
Phil Peel has been elected as 137th President of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers as it cele…
North East gas/electricity networks lag on info says watchdog
Added: 30 May 2022
Some 84 percent of all digging projects now preceded by a search for underground pipes and cables, …
Tetra Pak claims fibre-based alternative is a packaging first
Added: 30 May 2022
Tetra Pak is testing a fibre-based barrier that it claims as a first for food carton packages distr…
JM pairs up for green hydrogen ambitions
Added: 29 May 2022
Johnson Matthey is to partner Enapter, a pioneer and commercial leader in electrolyser technology t…
Metso Outotec signs €33 mill Omani deal
Added: 28 May 2022
Metso Outotec has signed a €33 million agreement for the delivery of engineering and key equipment …
Investigation reveals which engineers are most in demand
Added: 28 May 2022
Development, technical and software engineers can look forward to burgeoning employment prospects, …
Ukraine effect could offset food and drink export boom
Added: 28 May 2022
Food and drink statistics for March suggest the sector enjoyed its strongest export levels since Oc…
Energy bosses expect more cyber-attacks but slow to act, warns report
Added: 20 May 2022
More than four-fifths of global professionals working in the power, renewables and oil and gas sect…
Stark Make UK/Infor supply chain survey suggests globalisation has peaked
Added: 17 May 2022
Two years of disruption to global supply chains has transformed the nature of UK manufacturing, sug…
QUB tops UK university food science list with UEA
Added: 17 May 2022
Queen’s University Belfast’s Institute for Global Food Security and School of Biological Sciences h…
Water and energy sector lead on resilience in uncertain times
Added: 17 May 2022
A new index of UK industrial sectors’ resilience to economic disruption has cited the water industr…
UK companies attract nearly one fifth of Europe’s total investment in cleantech
Added: 17 May 2022
The UK has established itself as a leading nation in so-called ‘cleantech’ in a record year for the…
Optimising equipment to extract the best AD performance
Added: 1 Jun 2022
Anaerobic digestion plant performance depends on reliability and getting the most out of the feedst…
Safety and efficiency: collaborators, not competitors
Added: 10 May 2022
Protecting staff should be a priority for all businesses, but how can it be done so that productivi…
Talking factory sense in every language
Added: 1 Jun 2022
Language barriers provide obstacles to safety and efficiency in the industrial workplace but techno…
NCC team claims first after recycling continuous carbon fibres from pressure tanks
Added: 4 May 2022
Engineers at the National Composites Centre in Bristol are hailing a “significant milestone in the …
