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Wind technology to gain multi-million pound training centre

Added: 5 Nov 2019

The Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult has launched a new multi-million pound national Floati…

Oil & gas leaders commit to industry-wide competence measurement

Added: 5 Nov 2019

Leading oil and gas engineering companies have helped embed a Government-sponsored system of compet…

UK engineering firms 'could be missing out on £10 billion R&D funding annually'

Added: 30 Oct 2019

New research claims that UK engineering companies are potentially missing out on more than £10 bill…

Farm’s biomethane ‘first’ brings 24/7 sustainable energy to c10k homes

Added: 30 Oct 2019

Manufacturers of a biomethane plant completed from start to finish in six months says it will provi…

Prince Albert provides £80k for ex-soldier’s pioneering materials PhD work

Added: 30 Oct 2019

PhD student Shaun Smart has been awarded £80,000 to fund his research into a vital area of material…

AFRC and Siemens seal deal to make Scottish factories smarter

Added: 23 Oct 2019

Strathclyde university’s Advanced Forming Research Centre (AFRC) has officially agreed a collaborat…

Make UK conferences spell out impending Brexit implications

Added: 23 Oct 2019

Manufacturers’ organisation Make UK staged two conferences in three days to provide emergency guida…

Facility launch 'a gamechanger for oil and gas measurement'

Added: 22 Oct 2019

TÜV SÜD’s National Engineering Laboratory has announced the launch of its £16 million Advanced Mult…

AEMT announces 2019 finalists shortlist

Added: 22 Oct 2019

A total of 25 finalists have been chosen for the six categories in the annual Association of Electr…

Full steam ahead as Spirax Sarco marks 30 years of driving accreditation

Added: 22 Oct 2019

Steam solutions provider Spirax Sarco is celebrating three decades of providing City & Guilds cours…

Virtual Engineering Centre enables £20million Sellafield savings

Added: 22 Oct 2019

Liverpool University’s Virtual Engineering Centre (VEC), has developed a training tool for Britain’…

Turnover boost sends px surging in list of top performers

Added: 11 Oct 2019

Stockton based engineering and energy company px has leapt 119 places in the Sunday Times Grant Tho…

Electricity prices ‘threaten UK steel's ability to compete with Europe’

Added: 9 Oct 2019

The UK’s steel producers pay two third more than their German counterparts for electricity and 80% …

IMechE boost for engineers graduating from the University of Northampton

Added: 9 Oct 2019

The Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) has confirmed it is re-accrediting the University …

Authority rules against Ecolab and Holchem merger

Added: 9 Oct 2019

Ecolab’s merger with Holchem has been blocked by the Competition & Mergers Authority (CMA).

Relax… you’ve got through the deadliest workplace day of the year

Added: 9 Oct 2019

Superstitious souls might dread the approach of Friday the 13th but engineers who prefer to rely on…

Flexible working emerges as new priority for manufacturing employees

Added: 9 Oct 2019

Automation and agile production methods are contributing to a growing demand among manufacturing st…

Engineers get to voice their thoughts on state of the nation

Added: 9 Oct 2019

The UK’s engineers are invited to share their views on the political, industrial and other challeng…

Drax Power Plant

Drax go-ahead puts Government and Planning Inspectorate at odds

Added: 9 Oct 2019

The Government has announced that it has approved the installation of four new gas fired turbines f…

adi shapes future engineering careers with its fourth intake of pre-apprentices

Added: 8 Oct 2019

Birmingham-based engineering firm adi Group has welcomed a fourth intake to its pioneering pre-appr…