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Ashtead seals network deal
Added: 14 Mar 2016
Remote tech enables wireless for hard-to-reach regions.

Gender pay reporting ‘demands clarity’
Added: 11 Mar 2016
Manufacturers in the UK are calling for greater clarity on the regulations on gender pay reporting …

Siemens to axe 2,500 oil & gas jobs
Added: 11 Mar 2016
Siemens has announced plans to cut 2,500 jobs from its oil & gas, metals and mining businesses.

Nestlé invests in odour control at Purina plant
Added: 10 Mar 2016
Nestlé confirmed this week it was working on improvements to the processes at its Purina PetCare pl…

Npower cuts UK workforce in bid to reverse losses
Added: 9 Mar 2016
Npower has announced plans to slash 2,400 jobs in a two-year turnaround programme designed to rever…

Thames Water fined £380k for polluting stream
Added: 9 Mar 2016
Thames Water has been fined £380,000 for polluting a rural stream in Buckinghamshire over a series …

Public backs women as engineers
Added: 8 Mar 2016
A survey conducted by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) suggests almost 80% of the p…

EDF finance chief quits over Hinkley Point
Added: 7 Mar 2016
French utility EDF has confirmed the resignation of its chief financial officer Thomas Piquemal ami…

Manufacturing slide starts to ‘bottom out’
Louisa Hearn | Added: 7 Mar 2016
The manufacturing sector’s ride into negative territory may be coming to an end, says a quarterly s…

'Urgent rethink' on energy storage key to cutting power bills
Added: 3 Mar 2016
A new Carbon Trust report has revealed that the introduction of more efficient energy storage syste…

Carbon nanotubes could extend nuclear reactor life
Added: 3 Mar 2016
Research conducted by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) suggests small amounts of car…

Enzyme study tackles biofuel efficiency
Added: 2 Mar 2016
A team of researchers has made a ‘significant step’ in understanding the processes naturally-occurr…

Mars recalls chocolate bars over plastic contamination fears
Added: 1 Mar 2016
Food group Mars has issued a Europe-wide recall of some of its chocolate products, following the di…

UK scientists seek to unlock biorefining processes
Added: 29 Feb 2016
A new collaborative research project has been launched to improve the biorefining processes behind …

Didcot power station collapses
Rob Smith | Added: 23 Feb 2016
A major incident has been declared following the partial collapse of a building at Didcot A power s…

Food and drink sector eyes fresh opportunities
Added: 23 Feb 2016
Many UK food and drink manufacturers are set to splash out on product and technological innovation …

North Sea tax breaks ‘critical for competitiveness’
Added: 23 Feb 2016
Pressures on the North Sea have prompted industry body Oil & Gas UK to lobby for a significant perm…

DuPont and Dow flesh out merger plans
Added: 22 Feb 2016
DuPont and Dow Chemical Company have announced the new corporate structure that is likely to result…

Industry app store ‘opens to everyone’
Added: 22 Feb 2016
GE has opened its cloud-based Predix platform to all developers, following a soft launch in October…

Bovine biomass could ‘revolutionise’ renewables
Added: 22 Feb 2016
A team of UK researchers at Harper Adams University is looking at how fungi found in a cow’s stomac…