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Vote quickly for 2025 Pump Industry Awards finalists...

Added: 14 Jan 2025

There is now just days left to take part in voting for your category choices in the 2025 Pump Indus…

Defence investment provides ‘milestone’ grant for materials casting project

Added: 14 Jan 2025

Wall Colmonoy has successfully bid for funding from the Defence Technology Exploitation Programme (…

Supply chain offers challenge to UK energy transition, says report 

Added: 14 Jan 2025

Supply chain difficulties remain the main risk to the UK’s energy transition plans, with lack of in…

Siemens marks a century of revolutionising Ireland’s infrastructure

Added: 14 Jan 2025

Global technology company Siemens has celebrated the 100th anniversary of its Irish subsidiary, inc…

TV food scientist reinforces call for better UPF regulation ahead of annual lecture series

Added: 20 Dec 2024

Warning labels and “carefully considered taxes” would provide a start on the improved regulation of…

‘Budget alone cannot account for manufacturing index drop’

Added: 4 Dec 2024

Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ recent Budget has contributed to a fall in the regular CIPS UK Manufactur…

Materials science apprenticeship degree wins funding go ahead

Added: 4 Dec 2024

The University of Birmingham and MTC Training’s new degree apprenticeship in manufacturing engineer…

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Refinery operators urged to focus on efficiency for resilience

Added: 4 Dec 2024

Refinery operators were urged to put efficiency gains under the spotlight in preparation for a slow…

Kenya initiative paves the way for a more secure process cold chain

Added: 4 Dec 2024

More than 130 Kenyan farmers have signed up for a new scheme set up with help from the University o…

Covid’s long tail costing UK productivity billions, claims research

Added: 13 Nov 2024

The effects of ‘long Covid’ may be costing the UK economy billions of pounds as continued illness a…

Lucideon hails AMRICC hydrogen firing breakthrough

Added: 13 Nov 2024

Advanced ceramics research organisation Lucideon says it has achieved the first 100% hydrogen firin…

RVRC seeks to shift net zero focus to industry emissions

Added: 13 Nov 2024

A new initiative sited at the National Manufacturing Institute Scotland (NMIS) plans to focus indus…

2024 Pump Industry Awards nominations deadline looms

Added: 12 Nov 2024

The British Pump Manufacturers Association is urging members not to miss the nominations process fo…

Industrial strategy will boost UK reshoring, say Make UK/RSM survey responders

Added: 23 Oct 2024

Announcement of the Government’s long-term industrial strategy will revive the country’s offshore m…

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UVAC claims funding plans for apprenticeships are ‘major blow’ to engineering

Added: 23 Oct 2024

Plans  to restrict levy funding of level 7 apprenticeships will widen the skills gap, hinder the ec…

QUB secures £6.5 million for supply chain initiative

Added: 23 Oct 2024

Queen's University Belfast has secured £6.25 million funding from UK Research and Innovation, to mo…

UK lagging in AI patent filing race

Added: 23 Oct 2024

The UK ranks eighth in a global list of nations filing AI patents and lags behind leading competito…

News roundup: Industrial strategy, women engineers, RoSPA awards

Added: 16 Oct 2024

CEO of Make UK Stephen Phipson has given an emphatic welcome to the Government’s new industrial str…

Sheffield AMRC and Boeing science-industry partnership wins Bhattacharyya Award

Added: 30 Sep 2024

The University of Sheffield’s Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC) and Boeing have won the…

Government signs deal for Tata furnace go-ahead

Added: 16 Sep 2024

Tata Steel has signed an agreement with the Government for a £500 million funding plan to enable th…