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Women scientists and engineers prominent in New Year Honours list

Added: 31 Dec 2025

Women scientists and engineers have featured strongly among the upper echelons of the 2026 New Year…

Manufacturing Barometer

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 …

Process safety engineer

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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, …

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 …

Engineering bodies highlight STEM gender gaps as exam results revealed

Added: 21 Aug 2025

Engineering leaders have welcomed signs of progress in science and technology uptake among students…

RAEng mourns loss of former chief Sir David Davies

Added: 21 Aug 2025

Former Royal Academy of Engineering president and government adviser Sir David Davies has died at t…

PE news in brief: chemicals supply chain, steel closure, overtime issues

Added: 21 Aug 2025

The Chemical Business Association has reported “cautious optimism” in its Q2 2025 supply chain surv…

Busch co-founder Dr Karl Busch dies aged 96

Added: 22 Jul 2025

Dr Karl Busch, co-founder/owner of global vacuum specialist the Busch Group, has died at the age of…

MacRobert honours groundbreaking organ technology

Added: 16 Jul 2025

An Oxford university spin-out has claimed one of British engineering’s leading awards for its techn…

Steel industry welcome for business secretary’s commitment to sector

Added: 3 Jul 2025

Business secretary Jonathan Reynolds, has “again shown that he is on the side of British industry i…

National Apprenticeship Week

UVAC warns NEETs focus could undermine industrial productivity

Added: 3 Jul 2025

Government focus on reducing the number of young people not in employment, education or training (N…

BP chemicals plant facility

Plaudits for industrial strategy marred by disappointment over chemicals ‘exclusion’

Added: 3 Jul 2025

Chemical Business Association CEO Tim Doggett has expressed “deep disappointment” over the absenceo…