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Demand to Sunak for manufacturing minister and new industrial strategy
Added: 14 Feb 2023
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak must ensure the Government urgently introduces a new industrial strategy…
Geopolitics shows biggest increase as supply chain disruptor but fails to make Top 10
Added: 13 Feb 2023
Supply chain disruptions caused by geopolitical instability showed a massive increase during 2022, …
Appointments updates from the process sectors
Added: 10 Feb 2023
A selection of some of the recent appointments across the various process sectors...
Eleanor’s pollution fighting backpack wins IET competition
Added: 10 Feb 2023
Huddersfield twelve-year-old Eleanor Wood’s pollution filtering backpack has won her the Instituti…
New academy offers utilities employees digital training
Added: 8 Feb 2023
UK Power Networks has launched a new Digital Academy for the utilities sector offering up to 400 sp…
UK industrial clusters gain from £6 mill award’s raft of decarbonisation projects
Added: 9 Feb 2023
Britain’s largest industrial clusters are the focus of a £6 million award to accelerate decarbonisa…
Strohm scales up operations as it completes plant expansion and plans recruitment drive
Added: 22 Feb 2023
Strohm, the world’s first producer of Thermoplastic Composite Pipes (TCP), has completed its plant…
Boom in entries for new project management degree apprenticeships
Added: 8 Feb 2023
Project management degree apprenticeships have increased 125% in the three years following their in…
Process contract news update...
Added: 6 Feb 2023
Jungheinrich, Decom Engineering, Atkins, Morrison Engineering Services, THREE360 Energy and Fluence…
Babcock Wanson heralds Euro drive with trio of acquisitions
Added: 5 Feb 2023
Babcock Wanson Group has acquired European firms Parat and PBS Power, bringing its total continenta…
Divert ‘wasted’ Apprenticeship Levy to plug digital skills gap says IET
Added: 6 Feb 2023
Two billion pounds of “wasted” Apprenticeship Levy payments should be diverted to engineering firms…
Interest rises as unattended operating systems increase their endurance
Added: 1 Feb 2023
Unattended boiler systems are now longer lasting – a boon in times of onsite staff shortages explai…
Instant access to critical tank data
Added: 31 Jan 2023
Mobile software solutions are enabling more stakeholders to gain immediate, secure access to invent…
Clock ticking to join UK engineering greats with MacRobert Award win
Added: 16 Jan 2023
Time is running out to enter one of the most sought-after prizes in engineering, the annual MacRobe…
Labour and Tory ex-ministers launch engineering apprenticeships inquiry
Added: 16 Jan 2023
Former Labour and Tory ministers Lords Knight and Willetts have launched an inquiry with support fr…
Heat pumps could reduce biogas carbon footprint more than a third, claims research
Added: 17 Jan 2023
Using air-source heat pumps for anaerobic digestion could slash the carbon footprint of the process…
IET veteran Almond becomes new chief executive
Added: 9 Jan 2023
Ed Almond is the new Chief Executive and Secretary (CES) of the Institution of Engineering and Tech…
Industry can solve a major health problem by not taking a stand
Added: 12 Jan 2023
Is it time to revisit the laws on time being spent on our feet during active work hours, wonders Wi…
Manufacturers welcome energy discount but point to Germany
Added: 9 Jan 2023
Industry leaders have responded with relief to the announcement of the Government’s new year-long E…
Top US lab hails its nuclear fusion breakthrough
Added: 14 Dec 2022
US scientists have hailed a landmark achievement in nuclear fusion that could one day transform ene…