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Hermes Award winner announced at Hannover Messe 2017
Added: 24 Apr 2017
This year’s Hermes Award at the annual Hannover Messe show has been won by German firm Schunk for i…
Energy efficiency ‘most important area’ for government to focus on, report finds
Added: 24 Apr 2017
Improving energy efficiency is the “single most important area” for the government to focus on if i…
Election mandate will provide greater certainty for Brexit, says EEF
Added: 18 Apr 2017
Prime minister Theresa May’s announcement of a snap general election for 8 June has received an ear…
Food manufacturer Moy Park fined £200k for engineer laceration
Added: 17 Apr 2017
Food manufacturer Moy Park has been fined £200,000 following an incident in which an engineer suffe…
Fracking ‘not compatible’ with 'preference' for renewable energy, study finds
Added: 11 Apr 2017
Research conducted by Cardiff University suggests fracking is ‘not compatible’ with public preferen…
Duke of York opens manufacturing research centre at Sheffield University
Added: 10 Apr 2017
The Duke of York has today (10 April) opened a collaborative manufacturing research facility at the…
Cadbury launch welcomed as post-Brexit investment in UK food and drink
Added: 10 Apr 2017
Cadbury owner Mondelēz International has sealed its commitment to the UK food and drink industry wi…
Wild Geese Group secures an OPITO safety first
Added: 10 Apr 2017
Training provider Wild Geese Group has become the first company to complete OPITO-approved plant ma…
Essar Oil fined £1.65m for refinery explosion
Added: 6 Apr 2017
Oil and gas firm Essar Oil has been fined £1.65 million following an explosion at its Ellesmere Por…
TUV SUD launches world-leading multiphase flow test facility in Scotland
Added: 5 Apr 2017
Major investment by TUV SUD has enabled the launch of a £16 million Centre of Excellence for subsea…
IMechE: Industry and schools must help boost attitudes to apprenticeships
Added: 5 Apr 2017
The Government must overcome public perception that apprenticeships are a poor alternative to acade…
Schools engineering careers guide shifts 32k copies in a fortnight
Added: 3 Apr 2017
EngineeringUK’s schools guide to STEM career opportunities over the next decade has had a flood of …
Scuoler’s EEF stepdown leaves second key process organisation seeking new leader
Added: 3 Apr 2017
Terry Scuoler’s announcement that he will step down as chief executive of the EEF has left a second…
BP sells Forties pipeline business to Ineos for £200m
Added: 3 Apr 2017
Oil and gas giant BP has sold its entire Forties pipeline business to chemical manufacturer Ineos f…
Article 50: Chemical bodies call for ‘certainty’ as Brexit negotiations begin
Added: 29 Mar 2017
Cefic and the Chemical Industry Association have called for pragmatism ahead of Brexit negotiations…
Hurricane claims ‘largest’ oilfield discovery on UKCS
Added: 27 Mar 2017
Oil exploration firm Hurricane Energy has made what it claims is the "largest undeveloped discovery…
HazardEx honours BPE for dust explosion toolkit
Added: 27 Mar 2017
Chemical and biochemical engineering design firm BPE has won the HazardEx Contribution to Safety aw…
EEF: 'No deal' Brexit will harm manufacturing
Added: 27 Mar 2017
Manufacturers organisation the EEF delivered a warning to prime minister Theresa May that a ‘no dea…
UK digital tech investment outstrips Germany and France combined
Added: 27 Mar 2017
Investment in the UK digital technological sector since 2011 has been 37% higher than France and Ge…
Teen engineers scoop 2017 Big Bang award for safety invention
Added: 27 Mar 2017
Two school students who created a wearable vest that predicts epileptic attacks have been awarded t…
