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Aggreko completes £4.5 million green expansion

Added: 4 May 2022

Temporary power company Aggreko has completed the £4.5 million sustainably-resourced low-carbon exp…

Mechanical trapped key safety interlocks offer a way round human error in production

Added: 29 Jun 2022

Mechanical trapped key safety interlocks have a vital role in reducing scope for human error and av…

Brewery saved from closure by its commitment to creating opportunity

Added: 20 Apr 2022

A Bristol brewery company forced to close by the pandemic has been saved by the group it helped wit…

‘Three in four manufacturers held back by disconnected data’

Added: 4 Apr 2022

An independent survey of 1,030 UK-based industrial firms reveals a total of 74% of respondents empl…

Multimillion pound UAE sustainability awards open for 2023

Added: 24 Mar 2022

The £2.2 million Zayed Sustainability Prize, the UAE's global award for recognising organisations a…

Chancellor warned pre-Statement: don’t alter R&D credit scheme

Added: 23 Mar 2022

As Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s Spring Statement is being delivered, UK industry is braced for the effe…

Work starts on UK’s largest aluminium packaging site

Added: 22 Mar 2022

Global packaging leader, the US Ball Corporation, has begun work on what will be the largest alumin…

Red light for red diesel warning

Added: 22 Mar 2022

Industrial users of red diesel are being warned to ensure any surplus fuel they hold in storage tan…

Shortages will impact supply chains ‘for years’ 

Added: 8 Mar 2022

Global supply chain resilience has plunged over the last year, with the Ukraine conflict set to mak…

Maersk completes final stage of its new £0.75 million safety training hub

Added: 8 Mar 2022

Maersk Training has now completed the final phase of its £750,000 refurbishment of its Aberdeen tra…

Post-pandemic manufacturers eye private equity opportunities

Added: 8 Mar 2022

Manufacturers are increasingly turning to private equity investment in order to boost their post-pa…

Women entrants help offset lockdown fall in UK engineer numbers

Added: 8 Mar 2022

The number of women in engineering jobs between 2010 and 2021 increased from 562,000 to 936,000 – a…

Precision, service life and accuracy are the valve essentials

Added: 4 May 2022

Accuracy may be key for a continuous control valve, but so is maintaining precision and service lif…

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Assystem announces 450 new jobs on energy transition projects across UK

Added: 22 Feb 2022

Assytem is launching a massive recruitment drive to hire 450 new employees for a spate of low carbo…

UCB open antibody discover lab in Berkshire

Covid demand has pushed UK laboratories ‘to limit’

Added: 22 Feb 2022

A combination of spiralling costs, rising demand and stockpiling strategies has led to ‘empty wareh…

Time-Sensitive Networking: the gamechanger for Industry 4.0

Added: 20 Apr 2022

Christian Bergdahl of HMS Industrial Networks explains why Time-Sensitive Networking is a gamechang…

How policing the ’chain’ gangs became a lot smarter

Added: 20 Apr 2022

Counterfeit products are a greater threat than ever before, warns Domino Printing Sciences' Adem Ku…

The future of food lies in sustainability and that takes engineering

Added: 4 Mar 2022

Engineering knowhow and the latest biotech can solve the dilemma of producing sustainable food and …

Driverless warehouses can combat industry's recruitment dilemmas

Added: 25 Feb 2022

More warehouse and distribution centre operators see driverless forklift truck technology as the so…

Survey raises questions over workplace safety and training

Added: 1 Feb 2022

Nearly one in three respondents to a UK health and safety survey say they have received no workplac…