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Engineering firms switch to ventilators to tackle health crisis
Added: 23 Mar 2020
UK engineering firms are answering the government’s appeal to produce thousands of desperately need…
Rotherham advanced solutions firm gains US foothold
Added: 23 Mar 2020
Plant reliability specialist AVT Reliability has opened its first subsidiary in the USA, following …
Downstream oil and gas have a vital role to play
Added: 18 Mar 2020
As supply and demand pressures increase in tandem with environmental concerns, the downstream oil a…
There's no short cuts to boosting female recruits in the manufacturing supply chain
Added: 18 Mar 2020
The lack of female recruits into the manufacturing supply chain is a brake on talent and needs urge…
Five steps to combat failing CHP engines
Added: 25 Mar 2020
Combined heat and power (CHP) engines that convert biogas into usable energy are vital equipment. B…
Make UK/BDO survey reveals exports slump to lowest level in three years
Added: 17 Mar 2020
Britain’s manufacturers are calling on the Government to work with industry and take whatever steps…
Panic buying customer substitutions 'could impact supply chain safety'
Added: 17 Mar 2020
Customers who buy up substitute products such as paper towel in place of toilet paper could be crea…
EPO reveals ‘significant’ growth for UK patent applications in Europe
Added: 17 Mar 2020
The volume of patent applications filed by UK businesses in Europe has risen ‘significantly’ for th…
Sleaford recognised for commitment to food innovation
Added: 17 Mar 2020
Multiple packaged foods supplier Sleaford Quality Foods (SQF), is celebrating after after winning t…
Pressure grows for Budget boost to manufacturing
Added: 9 Mar 2020
As the Chancellor prepared the first Budget of Boris Johnson’s administration, manufacturing leader…
Coronavirus ‘will increase demand for storage’
Added: 9 Mar 2020
The coronavirus epidemic in the Far East will increase pressure among UK businesses to remedy suppl…
Just a quarter of young people know nuclear is low carbon source
Added: 9 Mar 2020
Barely one in four people aged 18-24 surveyed realise nuclear power is a low carbon source of elect…
NEBOSH calls on world experts for H&S careers guide
Added: 9 Mar 2020
More than 20 of the leading health and safety practitioners working in the global process industrie…
VSDs to lose exemption from tough new Euro motor efficiency rules
Added: 3 Mar 2020
Variable speed drives will be included for the first time in stringent new rules for electric motor…
Severn Trent and partner get £1 mill innovation grant to treat wastewater
Added: 3 Mar 2020
Clean tech company CCm Technologies has been awarded approximately £1 million in government funding…
Expert warns coronavirus impact will heighten need for Industry 4.0 solutions
Added: 3 Mar 2020
The economic disruption caused by global disasters such as the coronavirus outbreak would be tackle…
Nature offers key to producing sustainable chemicals
Added: 25 Feb 2020
Industrial products that currently depend for their creation on chemicals from hydrogen and fossil …
'Engineers fear skills shortages but ignore tax relief that would help'
Added: 25 Feb 2020
Over a third of UK engineers surveyed worry about skills shortages but more than a fifth of their c…
Bilfinger awarded multi-million Hinkley Point C contract
Added: 25 Feb 2020
Hinkley Point C owner EDF has awarded Bilfinger a £58 million contract from for the execution desig…
Materials apprenticeship degree finally makes the grade
Added: 14 Feb 2020
The long-awaited new degree apprenticeship for trainees in materials science across the UK has rece…
