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Glenmuckloch open cast coal mine

Scotland moves to transform coal mine into energy park

Added: 29 Nov 2016

Plans to create an energy park at the former Glenmuckloch open cast coal mine were given a boost th…

Tata Steel

Tata’s speciality steels business to sell for £100m

Added: 28 Nov 2016

Tata Steel has announced plans to sell its UK-based speciality steels business to Liberty House for…

New report questions value of merging NHS labs

Added: 28 Nov 2016

Independent research organisation MindMetre has questioned the benefits of consolidating pathology …

Stan Higgins

NEPIC chief brands government’s approach to industry ‘disappointing’

Added: 25 Nov 2016

North East of England Process Industry Cluster spokesman Stan Higgins has described the Government’…

Philip Hammond

Autumn Statement confirms major Whitehall investment in STEM

Added: 23 Nov 2016

Chancellor Phillip Hammond has, as expected, delivered a raft of measures in his Autumn Statement d…

Pounds sterling

Autumn Statement 2016: industry implications

Added: 23 Nov 2016

Chancellor Phillip Hammond today unveils his first Autumn Statement since taking office, with expec…

Female engineers achieve their best medal tally at Skills Show

Added: 23 Nov 2016

Six female entrants were among the medal winners for this year’s Skills Show engineering competitio…

Hinkley Point C

EDF calls in Assystem to deliver Hinkley’s nuclear reactors

Added: 22 Nov 2016

French energy major EDF has called in engineering firm Assystem to help build two European Pressuri…

Downing Street promise of £2bn R&D increase applauded by sector

Added: 21 Nov 2016

Science and engineering leaders have been quick to welcome Prime Minister Theresa May’s announcemen…

Students

RAE report warns job prospects for minority graduates need improving

Added: 21 Nov 2016

Employment opportunities for black and minority ethnic engineering students in the six months after…

Paper

Valmet fined £130,000 over worker’s pulping machine injury

Added: 19 Nov 2016

Valmet, which supplies automation and technology equipment to the pulp, paper and energy industries…

Nuclear waste

New nuclear waste disposal research ‘could save millions’

Added: 19 Nov 2016

A team of scientists has completed a body of research on radioactive isotopes, which could be used …

Chemical industry

Minister says maintaining British chemical industry as world leader ‘vital’

Added: 18 Nov 2016

The UK’s role as a world leader in the chemical sector must be maintained after Brexit,  Minister f…

Shale gas fracking

GMB union demands open debate on fracking in UK

Added: 18 Nov 2016

Britain needs an ‘honest and open’ debate on the viability of fracking, said Stuart Fegan, National…

North Sea oil and gas decommissioning to soar by 2025

Added: 16 Nov 2016

North Sea decommissioning in the UK and Norway will continue to grow over the next decade with more…

Pounds sterling

Graduate engineering pay on the increase, says EEF report

Added: 16 Nov 2016

The average pay for engineers in the UK has risen 2% on last year, while graduates’ pay has seen a …

MIT plastic

MIT moves closer to creating biodegradable plastics

Added: 14 Nov 2016

Chemists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have determined the structure of a bact…

Philip Hammond

Autumn Statement: EEF makes its case to the Chancellor

Added: 14 Nov 2016

Chancellor Philip Hammond is being urged to use next week’s Autumn Statement (23 November) as a mea…

Apprentice

Sheffield launches degree-level apprenticeships

Added: 12 Nov 2016

Sheffield and Sheffield Hallam universities have launched a degree-level apprenticeship programme t…

Chemical firm incurs £3m fine following fatal toxic leak

Added: 9 Nov 2016

Cristal Pigment UK has been fined more than £3 million following the release of a toxic vapour clou…