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'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…
Bessemer bids to improve the innovation investment process
Added: 3 Feb 2020
Government must recognise that innovative ‘hard tech’ companies face greater investment difficultie…
UK slashes oil imports by a fifth in five years
Added: 3 Feb 2020
Britain succeeded in reducing its dependence upon foreign oil by 21% between 2013 and 2018.
Union backs Scotch producers’ demand for end to transatlantic whisky tariffs
Added: 29 Jan 2020
The GMB union has thrown its weight behind demands by the Scotch Whisky Association and its US coun…
ECITB unveils nearly £100 million in industry training investment
Added: 29 Jan 2020
The Engineering Construction Industry Training Board (ECITB) has announced a £90 million investment…
North West calls on Government to develop region as low carbon cluster
Added: 29 Jan 2020
North West industry leaders say £4 billion of investment and 33,000 jobs could be created if Govern…
Visa moves ‘must not block European talent pool’
Added: 29 Jan 2020
Government attempts to overhaul the visa system and ensure a flow of leading scientific talent from…
Food and drink SMEs have chance of £20k worth of tech and innovation facilities
Added: 21 Jan 2020
Lincoln University’s National Centre for Food Manufacturing (NCFM) is offering small business the c…
