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Just a quarter of young people know nuclear is low carbon source
Added: 9 Mar 2020
Barely one in four people aged 18-24 surveyed realise nuclear power is a low carbon source of elect…

Pressure grows for Budget boost to manufacturing
Added: 9 Mar 2020
As the Chancellor prepared the first Budget of Boris Johnson’s administration, manufacturing leader…

Severn Trent and partner get £1 mill innovation grant to treat wastewater
Added: 3 Mar 2020
Clean tech company CCm Technologies has been awarded approximately £1 million in government funding…

VSDs to lose exemption from tough new Euro motor efficiency rules
Added: 3 Mar 2020
Variable speed drives will be included for the first time in stringent new rules for electric motor…

Expert warns coronavirus impact will heighten need for Industry 4.0 solutions
Added: 3 Mar 2020
The economic disruption caused by global disasters such as the coronavirus outbreak would be tackle…

Oliver Valves wins record £10 million Middle East order
Added: 3 Mar 2020
Leading manufacturer Oliver Valves has marked its 40 years in business by winning an order in exces…

Nature offers key to producing sustainable chemicals
Added: 25 Feb 2020
Industrial products that currently depend for their creation on chemicals from hydrogen and fossil …

'Engineers fear skills shortages but ignore tax relief that would help'
Added: 25 Feb 2020
Over a third of UK engineers surveyed worry about skills shortages but more than a fifth of their c…

Scotland’s life sciences sector on track to exceed £8 billion target by 2025
Added: 25 Feb 2020
New figures published today by the Scottish Government show company employment in Scotland’s life s…

Bilfinger awarded multi-million Hinkley Point C contract
Added: 25 Feb 2020
Hinkley Point C owner EDF has awarded Bilfinger a £58 million contract from for the execution desig…
Engineering manages year on year salary growth despite Brexit jitters
Added: 14 Feb 2020
Salary levels across the engineering sector continued to grow last year, with 2.1 per cent average …

Poo to food breakthrough could boost farm to fork security
Added: 14 Feb 2020
Phosphate vital for agricultural fertiliser could be produced on an industrial scale from sewage sl…

Materials apprenticeship degree finally makes the grade
Added: 14 Feb 2020
The long-awaited new degree apprenticeship for trainees in materials science across the UK has rece…

Steel industry decarbonisation project secures £1.26 million
Added: 14 Feb 2020
The UK Research and Innovation-funded Centre for Research into Energy Demand Solutions (CREDS), has…

Assystem wins contract for final phase 1 design of ITER project
Added: 11 Feb 2020
Assystem, has won the contract for the final design of phase 1 as well as prototype testing for the…

Wood finalises sale terms for industrial services business
Added: 11 Feb 2020
John Wood Group is selling its industrial services business to technical services provider, Kaefer,…

Government announcement on free ports
Added: 11 Feb 2020
The Government has announced a consultation process for the creation of as many as 10 free ports in…

Voting set to open for finalists of Pump Industry Awards 2020
Added: 11 Feb 2020
Nearly 40 finalists in eight categories will go forward for the vote to decide the winners of the 2…

Women recruits ‘put at risk by PPE clothing designed for men’
Added: 4 Feb 2020
Personal protection equipment (PPE) is failing to adapt to the needs of the growing number of women…

University innovators harness bat power for new pipeline leak solution
Added: 3 Feb 2020
While Bruce Wayne did it in fiction, university engineers and their partners have harnessed the nat…