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Report predicts engineering exodus

Added: 4 Jan 2016

The annual Investors in People (IoP) employee sentiment report suggests almost half of those workin…

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Food body to treble apprenticeships

Added: 1 Jan 2016

The Food and Drink Federation (FDF) has pledged to treble apprenticeships and grow value-added food…

North Sea offshore oil and gas

Industry “must learn” from Total leak

Added: 22 Dec 2015

Oil and gas production firm Total has received a “record fine” for a gas release that took place in…

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Green gas industry ‘could quadruple’

Added: 22 Dec 2015

Additional funding for the Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) budget has the potential to increase the …

Drugs

Alliance and Sinclair in pharma deal

Added: 22 Dec 2015

Alliance Pharma has acquired Sinclair IS Pharma for roughly £132 million.

Cuadrilla shale site

Time to “press ahead” with shale

Rob Smith | Added: 21 Dec 2015

The Oil & Gas Authority (OGA) has offered 93 onshore exploration licences across 159 blocks through…

Shale fracking

Shale report highlights benefits

Added: 17 Dec 2015

The Task Force on Shale Gas has published its fourth report, which examines the economic impacts of…

Drax power station

Industry reacts to Paris verdict

Added: 17 Dec 2015

The UK business community has called on the government to support existing technologies, and embrac…

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Government sinks £8.2m into water treatment

Added: 16 Dec 2015

Cranfield University has been awarded £8.2 million to shape the future of UK water treatment and in…

Dow DuPont merger

DuPont and Dow confirm merger

Added: 16 Dec 2015

Dow Chemical Company and DuPont have today announced plans to join forces.

Water rules need 'urgent review'

Added: 16 Dec 2015

A report published by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) suggests European Union (EU)…

Manufacturing Barometer

Manufacturing growth 'faded away'

Added: 7 Dec 2015

A survey published by manufacturers’ organisation EEF says UK manufacturing is facing a difficult e…

SSE Ferrybridge coal power station

IChemE rallies climate change cry

Added: 4 Dec 2015

The Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE) Energy Centre Board has called on governments and po…

NECR 2015 Women's Forum

STEM guidance to 'improve' diversity

Added: 4 Dec 2015

The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) has published guidance to help employers improv…

Microsoft founder, Bill Gates

Billionaires' club to fund clean energy

Added: 3 Dec 2015

Tech billionaires Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg have joined a cast of high-profile executives in a…

Food and drink manufacturing

Manufacturing pace loses momentum

Added: 2 Dec 2015

The UK manufacturing sector experienced a moderate ease in growth during November, the latest Marki…

Paris COP21

CBI calls for global climate plan

Added: 30 Nov 2015

British businesses have joined the call for world leaders to forge a global action plan at the UN C…

Oil rig

Oil & gas firms ‘risking’ $2trn

Added: 30 Nov 2015

A report published by investment think-tank Carbon Tracker suggests major oil and gas firms are ris…

Ebswien sewage plant, Vienna

Sewage gas to power waste plant

Added: 30 Nov 2015

Siemens technology is being used to convert the Ebswien wastewater treatment works in Vienna into a…

White Rose CCS carbon capture Drax

Government scraps CCS funding

Added: 27 Nov 2015

The UK government rocked the industrial sector this week with the news that it had scrapped its £1 …