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Made Smarter highlights need for manufacturers’ digital drive

Added: 26 Jul 2022

The organisation set up to boost manufacturers’ take up of digital tools is urging small to medium …

Smurfit Kappa Nechells plant hit by massive blaze

Added: 13 Jun 2022

Europe’s biggest producer of packaged paper, Smurfit Kappa, suffered colossal damage as fire ripped…

Digital Process Manufacturing Centre targets Scotland process leaders

Added: 13 Jun 2022

The National Manufacturing Institute Scotland (NMIS) Group, will open a new technology centre in Ay…

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…

Update: Metso to open rubber parts plant in Lithuania 

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 …

Always suit the materials to the industrial application

Added: 9 May 2022

Using operating parts made of high-quality materials is crucial to ensure reliability and stability…

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…

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 …

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…

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…

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…

Bespoke response enables plant to go with the flow

Added: 24 Dec 2021

When a Dutch salt extraction plant ran into production difficulties, Celeros Flow Technology came u…

The safety challenges for rubber and plastic recycling processes

Added: 30 Sep 2021

As rubber and plastic waste continues to grow, The UK is actively seeking alternative uses for thes…

£18.27 million investment boosts Midlands’ advanced ceramics ambitions

Added: 26 Jul 2021

Midlands Industrial Ceramics Group has secured £18.27 million in government funding provided throug…

Heriot-Watt vows £0.6 million laser beam award will transform UK industrial capabilities

Added: 13 Jul 2021

Researchers at the National Robotarium based at Edinburgh’s Heriot-Watt University have secured a £…

WMFTG marks Bredel anniversary with €4 million investment

Added: 13 Jul 2021

Watson-Marlow Fluid Technology Group (WMFTG)has marked the 60th anniversary of its Bredel brand wit…

Biffa keeps an Eye on record recycling target

Added: 5 May 2021

Waste processing giant Biffa has set itself the target of quadrupling plastic recycling capacity at…

Tough pumps bear fruit for lime treatments

Added: 30 Apr 2021

Plants and refineries use lime to remove sulphur dioxide from flue gas output but this can damage d…

Manufacturing Barometer

Cast Metals Federation reports positive attitude to post-pandemic era

Added: 22 Mar 2021

The UK cast metals sector’s trade body has reported a growing mood of optimism among members for th…

How pumping is priming the lithium revolution

Added: 15 Feb 2021

China’s largest lithium battery materials manufacturer turned to Watson-Marlow for Bredel APEX pump…