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Iceland ready-meals

Research boost for ready-meals

Added: 26 Nov 2015

Industrial gas supplier BOC has begun a two-year project to develop a cooking and cooling system ai…

Ineos Grangemouth

Sales slide hits chemical sector

Added: 25 Nov 2015

The Chemical Industries Association (CIA) warned last week that the UK must ”urgently address” its …

BP Gulf oil spill fund dries up

Shell fined over North Sea spill

Added: 24 Nov 2015

Oil and gas firm Shell has been fined £22,500 after it was found to have breached offshore petroleu…

Shale fracking

Cuadrilla forced to plug shale well

Added: 24 Nov 2015

Hydraulic fracturing (fracking) firm Cuadrilla has stopped exploration at its Becconsall shale gas …

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Apprenticeships future still unclear

Added: 24 Nov 2015

British businesses have called on the government to clarify its impending plans regarding the futur…

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Pfizer agrees $160bn merger

Added: 23 Nov 2015

Pfizer has signed a $160 billion (£105bn) merger deal with Irish pharmaceuticals developer Allergan.

GE and Emerson give biophrama boost FlexFactory

GE and Emerson in biopharma deal

Added: 20 Nov 2015

GE Healthcare’s Life Sciences business and Emerson Process Management have joined forces to improve…

Manufacturing Barometer

£92m for manufacturing hubs

Added: 20 Nov 2015

Universities and science minister Jo Johnson has today announced £92 million worth of investment fo…

North Sea offshore oil and gas

Decommissioning sector ramps up

Added: 19 Nov 2015

The UK Continental Shelf (UKCS) is likely to see decommissioning expenditure of £16.9 billion by 20…

SSE Ferrybridge coal power station

UK coal-fired plants to close

Added: 18 Nov 2015

The UK’s coal-fired power stations will be shut down within the next ten years, energy secretary Am…

Quantum research on show

Quantum research in the spotlight

Added: 18 Nov 2015

UK research teams last week demonstrated how study of the quantum realm is helping to advance measu…

Think tank targets drinking water standard

Think tank targets water standard

Added: 18 Nov 2015

A new think-tank has been founded by manufacturers and trade organisations to drive a European syst…

Chemical industry

UK still lags in innovation stakes

Added: 17 Nov 2015

The UK has once again failed to make an appearance on a list of the world’s top 100 most innovative…

Carlsberg

Carlsberg to slash workforce

Added: 13 Nov 2015

Carlsberg announced plans to cut 2000 jobs this week as it revealed a DKr4.499bn (£425m) net loss i…

Pharma

Biopharma centre improves capability

Added: 12 Nov 2015

Life sciences firm Novasep has provided a biologics centre with protein purification technology.

Energy efficient technologies aren't always implemented

UK relegated in energy index

Added: 11 Nov 2015

A fall in the UK’s energy equity has resulted in the loss of its ‘AAA’ energy score, the annual Ene…

Fracking fluid an 'outstanding achievement'

Non-toxic fracking fluid scoops award

Added: 10 Nov 2015

An energy-saving, non-toxic hydraulic fracturing (fracking) fluid was declared the overall winner a…

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Cogent extends safety strategy

Added: 10 Nov 2015

Industry body Cogent Skills has updated its process safety management competence programme.

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Amec Foster inks graphene deal

Added: 9 Nov 2015

Amec Foster Wheeler has been appointed the preferred engineering partner to Applied Graphene Materi…

Forty-nine per cent of industry representatives claim skills shortages are their main barrier to gro

Engineering tops career poll

Added: 9 Nov 2015

More people would encourage a young person to become an engineer than a doctor, accountant or banke…