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Half UK manufacturers cyber-attacked in last year, warns Make UK study
Added: 5 May 2021
Half of Britain’s manufacturers have been the victim of cybercrime during the last 12 months, claim…
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…
QMUL opens new life science innovation site
Added: 21 Apr 2021
Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) has announced the opening of its new Queen Mary Enterprise l…
IMechE appoints Space Agency’s Bunn as new chief executive
Added: 20 Apr 2021
UK Space Agency international director Dr Alice Bunn has been appointed as the next chief executive…
Poor Covid tracing ‘losing engineering firms an average of £0.6 million’ claim
Added: 20 Apr 2021
New research claims that engineering companies and employees returning to physical workspaces this …
Schaeffler chosen for UN’s sustainability leaders list
Added: 20 Apr 2021
The United Nations has selected the Schaeffler Group as one of its 50 global sustainability & clima…
Lockdown period sees record rises in component replacements
Added: 7 Apr 2021
Pandemic lockdown has produced an unprecedented demand for improvements to components and replaceme…
Make UK survey predicts 'superdeduction' investment boost for manufacturers
Added: 6 Apr 2021
The introduction of the 'superdeduction' tax incentive is set to provide a sharp boost to investmen…
Siemens steps up industrial network training to plug skills gap
Added: 6 Apr 2021
Siemens has boosted its professional training offering in industrial networks to combat the skills …
Pandemic fails to stop rise in UK manufacturing’s R&D spend
Added: 6 Apr 2021
Research & development spending in the UK manufacturing industry rose 4.4% rise last year despite t…
Robust pumping system avoids lockdown downtime
Added: 19 Apr 2021
WPL’s wastewater treatment technology, selected to withstand seasonal variations in flow, has prove…
Safe seals make for safe plant operations
Added: 3 Aug 2021
Mechanical seals are critical for safe operation in refineries and chemical plants. Ensuring their …
Banging the drum for AODD systems
Added: 18 Aug 2021
Air-operated double-diaphragm (AODD) pumps can be hard to beat for sheer versatility, insists Almat…
Supply chains are key to effective 4.0
Added: 19 Apr 2021
Industry 4.0 gives opportunity for large enterprises to achieve significant cost savings via effici…
2021: The year industry turns the corner on AI
Added: 13 Jul 2021
Capital intensive industries can benefit from accelerated digital strategies to improve efficiencie…
It's IPs that ensures good ideas become good business
Added: 3 Apr 2021
Engineering startups seeking to seeking to turn innovative ideas into commercial reality need to ge…
STEM needs EQ as well as IQ
Added: 18 Aug 2021
Focus on STEM careers doesn’t always include much reference to the need for emotional intelligence.…
EU withdrawal results in the chemical industry paying a heavy price
Added: 24 Mar 2021
The global focus on chemicals has grown, which might be good news for one of the UK’s most successf…
Drop in UK businesses’ patent applications in Europe, reports EPO
Added: 22 Mar 2021
Patent applications filed by UK businesses in Europe fell slightly in 2020, according to data publi…
Coventry seeks to prove where there’s muck, there’s green fuel
Added: 22 Mar 2021
Coventry University researchers are working alongside water utility Severn Trent and the Organics G…
