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Tata Steel incurs £1m penalty after toxic substances release
Added: 14 Aug 2017
Tata Steel UK has incurred a £1 million fine following an incident in which toxic and flammable sub…
Lawrence Waterman succeeds Lynda Armstrong as British Safety Council chairman
Added: 7 Aug 2017
Lawrence Waterman has been appointed as the new chairman of the British Safety Council, following L…
Eurofins’ new £4 million laboratory brings testing under one roof
Added: 4 Aug 2017
Work has finished on Eurofins’ new high-tech laboratory site for testing water and pharmaceutical p…
Government hands Amec Foster Wheeler £2.9m nuclear research contract
Added: 3 Aug 2017
The government has appointed Amec Foster Wheeler to lead a £2.9 million nuclear power research prog…
BP records second quarter profits of $684m amid ‘solid’ half-year results
Added: 1 Aug 2017
Oil and gas giant BP has recorded net profits of $684 million (£517m) during the second quarter of …
Reduced demand prompts closure of Staffordshire’s council-run laboratory
Added: 31 Jul 2017
One of the last local authority-run laboratories in England is to be closed with the loss of 16 pos…
UK offshore oil and gas safety record improving says report
Added: 27 Jul 2017
The UK’s offshore oil and gas industry has reported its lowest ever incidence of so-called ‘dangero…
Water treatment firm hit with fine after worker fall
Added: 27 Jul 2017
Icon Process Systems, which manufactures water treatment systems, has been fined after an employee …
Government launches first phase of £246m battery technology challenge
Added: 25 Jul 2017
The government has announced the launch of a £246 million fund designed to establish the UK as a wo…
CBI and EEF reports reveal upturn in UK manufacturing performance
Added: 25 Jul 2017
Reports from the CBI and EEF published this week suggest that manufacturing output in the UK is imp…
GSK pulls out of Ulverston biopharma plans amid major manufacturing shake-up
Added: 19 Jul 2017
Pharmaceutical giant GSK has announced plans to overhaul its manufacturing network in the UK, but s…
Work experience ‘more reliable’ than socio-economic background in chemical engineering, report finds
Added: 17 Jul 2017
Work experience is ‘more reliable’ than socio-economic background when predicting employment potent…
Complexity of UK withdrawing from Euratom made clear by European Commission
Added: 16 Jul 2017
The complexity of the UK withdrawing from Euratom has been made clear by the latest European Commis…
OPITO confirms McDonald as chief executive officer
Added: 13 Jul 2017
OPITO, the international workforce, safety and standards organisation for oil and gas, has appointe…
‘Act now to boost UK food and drink’s global competitiveness’
Added: 10 Jul 2017
Government must act fast to ensure that the food and drink sector in Britain maintains its workforc…
Better leadership needed to avert Buncefield-style disasters, warns ABB
Added: 10 Jul 2017
Better leadership is needed in the process industries to avoid repetition of accidents on the scale…
Sellafield firefighters to strike over pay dispute
Added: 7 Jul 2017
Firefighters at Sellafield nuclear facility will strike later this month after “last ditch” talks o…
EngineeringUK announces new chief executive
Added: 5 Jul 2017
EngineeringUK announced today that Mark Titterington has been appointed as its new chief executive.
Consortium wins £1million to develop new family of antibiotics
Added: 5 Jul 2017
Innovate UK has awarded nearly £1million in funding to a consortium developing a platform for the p…
SPX Flow joint venture workshop to service Iraq’s ‘super giant’ oil fields
Added: 5 Jul 2017
SPX Flow has signed a joint venture agreement with the WTE Wajdi Group Group to service all rotatin…
