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More than 0.6 million manufacturing jobs gone since crash says GMB union
Added: 13 Nov 2019
A total of 620,000 manufacturing jobs in the UK have disappeared since the 2008 financial crash, th…

City and industry welcome for proposed British Steel deal
Added: 13 Nov 2019
News of negotiations between British Steel and the Chinese Jingye Steel company has been greeted wi…

Sustainable water pioneer wins WES Burt accolade
Added: 5 Nov 2019
Mandy Lester has won the 21st winner of the Women’s Engineering Society’s prestigious Karen Burt Aw…

UKOOG opts for guarded response to Government’s fracking declaration
Added: 5 Nov 2019
The organisation representing the UK onshore oil and gas industry has given a guarded response to t…

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).
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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…