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NPL’s CERN deal paves the way for solving electricity’s fusion challenge

Added: 6 May 2024

The National Physical Laboratory has signed a memorandum of understanding with the European Laborat…

Manufacturing fall is ‘blip’ not reversal insist commentators

Added: 6 May 2024

A disappointing fall in the latest CIPS UK Manufacturing Purchasing Managers’ Index should not be t…

Flow investment places Leeds at the nuclear cutting edge

Added: 6 May 2024

The University of Leeds has established itself as a UK leader in the application of nuclear technol…

Polymers

Polymer pioneers put north west on the map

Added: 6 May 2024

Work has completed on a project to develop technology for 3D printed polymers for scaled up commerc…

Government award to power up industry’s cutting edge computing

Added: 16 Apr 2024

The Centre for Modelling and Simulation (CFMS) has been awarded £2.4 million of funding from the De…

Fast reactor application makes nuclear and legal history

Added: 16 Apr 2024

Legal history has been made with the first ever attempt to use a legislative procedure specifically…

Petrochem woes compounded by spare parts shortage, claims report

Added: 16 Apr 2024

Spare parts sourcing for cooling, heating, steam and compressed air equipment is becoming more prob…

Global RoSPA win for factory that took workplace safety into the community

Added: 16 Apr 2024

An Indian factory run by an international cosmetics brand has won the Royal Society for the Prevent…

CBA Q4 report shows jump in chemical sector optimism

Added: 25 Mar 2024

Chemical Business Association members have shown a markedly more optimistic view of the sector’s re…

UK tops peers in EPO patent applications

Added: 25 Mar 2024

UK innovators their increased year on year European patent applications by a larger percentage than…

Climate, skills and environment top another successful PIA Awards

Added: 25 Mar 2024

Global climate change, the skills gap and environmental regeneration all featured among this year’s…

Plastic recycling

Europe on course to circular source plastics goals

Added: 25 Mar 2024

Europe is almost half way towards its goal of using a quarter of its plastics from circular sources…

AMRICC opening cements Staffs role as UK materials science centre

Added: 26 Feb 2024

Staffordshire has sealed its centuries-old reputation as the UK’s ceramics capital with the officia…

BP chemicals plant facility

Chemicals and renewables’ lack of appeal leaves recruitment headache

Added: 26 Feb 2024

The renewables and chemicals sectors could be short of thousands of the skilled workers they need u…

2024 Pump Industry Awards Finalists Revealed

Added: 26 Feb 2024

Fifty finalists across eight categories are squaring up for the hotly contested honours at the 2024…

Tomorrow’s big process ideas start in the lab…

Added: 29 Jan 2024

Many of the biggest technological advances in the process industries begin with R&D in the lab. Fin…

Sensor offers new hope to counter ‘forever chemicals’ contamination

Added: 24 Jan 2024

New methods to combat the prevalence of per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) could provide a v…

Made Smarter 4.0 adoption is vital ingredient for manufacturing investment

Added: 24 Jan 2024

Industrial mentoring organisation Made Smarter reports that small to medium sized manufacturers (SM…

Catch up on the science that impacts the process factory floor…

Added: 19 Jan 2024

Lab Horizons, our new sister site and publication, is at the cutting edge of science and industry, …

Days left to join MacRobert’s engineering hall of fame

Added: 11 Jan 2024

The deadline is fast approaching for the final chance this year to enter one of UK engineering's mo…