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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…

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…

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…

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, …

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…

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…

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…