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Ofwat winners share £42 million for innovative projects

Added: 27 May 2025

Sixteen technology pioneers will share Ofwat funding of £42 million to aid development of their inn…

Liverpool AM startup secures £0.7 million-plus in a year

Added: 26 May 2025

Liverpool-based advanced manufacturing startup Atomik-AM has secured financial aid of £0.6 million …

Scientists to scale up production of factory-grade cellulose from cow dung

Added: 26 May 2025

University scientists have created a technique to turn cow dung into manufacturing grade cellulose.

PE News in brief: trade deal, O&G study, appointments and more

Added: 19 May 2025

Process industry organisations gave a positive early response to the announcement of the UK's newly…

Survey reveals why pharma chiefs prefer US to Europe

Added: 14 May 2025

New research from Bayes Business School urges greater cooperation and better incentives from EU mem…

Blackburn opens defoamer plant to take on the world

Added: 13 May 2025

Specialty chemicals company Blackburn Chemicals Limited has opened its new £14 million defoamer fac…

Milk production factory

Pharma sector suffers longest downtime disruptions says report

Added: 2 May 2025

UK and European pharmaceutical firms suffer the longest downtime disruptions of any industrial sect…

Process sectors’ new jobs opportunity: acoustics

Added: 2 May 2025

Workplace safety experts are urging graduates interested in environmental issues to consider a care…

Academics’ toolkit offers digital steer for SMEs 

Added: 2 May 2025

University of East Anglia academics have developed a government-funded toolkit for SME manufacturer…

National Physical Laboratory

Deadline for £50k science and engineering scholarship extended to 10 May

Added: 10 Apr 2025

The deadline to apply for a new £50k scholarship administered by the National Physical Laboratory h…

Europe accused of trailing Middle East on sustainable plastics policy

Added: 10 Apr 2025

The European Union is “stuck in the past” in its attitude to so-called oxo-biodegradable plastics, …

Entrepreneur Jackson is new Digital Catapult chair

Added: 10 Apr 2025

Entrepreneur and academic professor Keith Jackson is the new chair of deep tech accelerator Digital…

ADE warns against two tier approach to net zero

Added: 10 Apr 2025

Factories and business that lie outside government-supported industry clusters are being overlooked…

Trump tariffs add 10% for imports from UK but avoid 20% levied on EU

Added: 3 Apr 2025

Manufacturers and government have reacted with concern to the imposition of a 10% tariff on imports…

Endress+Hauser level and pressure centre chief killed in car crash

Added: 31 Mar 2025

Endress+Hauser Level+Pressure centre managing director Dr Dirk Mörmann has been killed in a car acc…

Defence commitment boosts industry response to spring statement

Added: 27 Mar 2025

Manufacturers have welcomed the defence spending commitments in Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ spring st…

AI pioneer spin-out Polaron wins inaugural £1 million Manchester Prize

Added: 24 Mar 2025

The first ever award of the new £1 million Manchester Prize for UK-led AI breakthroughs has gone to…

Universities fear boost to young apprentices will undermine employee retraining

Added: 20 Mar 2025

A substantial majority of UK universities polled say pending government reform of apprenticeships w…

PFA rules drive massive increase in testing demand says TÜV Rheinland

Added: 20 Mar 2025

Stricter rules on per- and polyfluoroalkyl substance (PFAS) use worldwide has led to a 30% rise in …

Tomlinson Hall leads the pack at 2025 Pump Industry Association awards

Added: 18 Mar 2025

Tomlinson Hall led the field at the 2025 Pump Industry Association awards, winning two out of 10 ca…