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Why traditional cyber defences are no longer enough
Added: 17 Dec 2025
Evolving attack techniques are exposing the limits of legacy security tools in engineering and manu…

Take the circular approach to thermal fluid management
Added: 15 Dec 2025
In an era of tightening regulations, rising energy prices and sustainability targets, manufacturers…

MakeUK/BDO survey applauds Q4 growth but says worries ahead
Added: 14 Dec 2025
Make UK issued a relatively upbeat report on UK manufacturing for the final quarter of 2025, with b…

Chemmies salute sector stars on stage at Blackpool
Added: 14 Dec 2025
DSV Air and Sea topped the finalists at this year’s Chemmie Awards hosted by the Chemical Business …

BCAS appoints Hayward as first female president
Added: 10 Dec 2025
Wendy Hayward has made history as the first woman president appointed to head the British Compresse…
In engineers we trust: poll lays bare public support
Added: 14 Dec 2025
Public trust in a variety of once-respected roles is falling but engineers remain one profession in…

The growth of electric boilers in UK industrial process heating
Added: 19 Nov 2025
Driven by government policy, market forces, and the urgency of decarbonisation, industry is rethink…

Back to Basics: checkweighing in food production lines
Added: 19 Nov 2025
Checkweighing plays a role in food manufacturing, meeting regulations, upholding product quality, b…

CBA reports slight improvements but background concerns for chemical sector
Added: 16 Nov 2025
Improvements in third quarter results within the chemicals sector have failed to allay concerns for…

Make UK delivers pre-Budget demand for manufacturing
Added: 16 Nov 2025
Britain’s manufacturers are pre-empting the forthcoming Budget by urging the Government to focus so…

KTP Awards mark 50th year and £2.3 billion value creation
Added: 16 Nov 2025
Innovate UK’s Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) Awards celebrated the scheme’s half century with…

Atlas Group purchases Anglian Compressors
Added: 16 Nov 2025
Anglian Compressors & Equipment, the Cambridgeshire-based compressed air distributor, has been acqu…

Former minister Halfon appointed to key Make UK role
Added: 19 Oct 2025
Make UK has appointed former Tory minister Robert Halfon as its new executive director responsible …

Start-up and college to launch industrial waste-to-feedstock trading platform
Added: 24 Oct 2025
A collaboration between a business startup and a college, aided by a biotech support organisation, …

Innovators saluted at 2025 IET Achievement Awards
Added: 24 Oct 2025
Pioneers in photovoltaics, physical computing, quantum and wearable tech dominated this year’s Inst…

Process news in brief: sector recruitment, expansions, training, appointments, contracts
Added: 25 Oct 2025
Hereford’s New Model Institute for Technology & Engineering (NMITE) is celebrating its largest-ever…

Fifty years of VSDs — and we’re just getting started
Added: 25 Oct 2025
Fifty years ago, an innovation quietly emerged that would go on to transform the way we power moder…

Beyond predictive maintenance: unlocking AI value
Added: 17 Oct 2025
Process industry consideration of AI’s potential tends to focus on predictive maintenance but often…

Acoustic emission testing: the sound approach to plant monitoring
Added: 7 Oct 2025
Breakthroughs in sensor technology and data interpretation are driving the rise of acoustic emissio…

From Paper to Predictive: overcoming cultural barriers in process industry digitalisation
Added: 24 Sep 2025
The technology’s already here, the legislative framework is encouraging process firms to endorse di…