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Honeywell expands chemicals footprint

Honeywell expands chemicals footprint

Added: 23 Oct 2015

Honeywell has bought Sigma-Aldrich’s research chemicals business in a bid to expand its portfolio o…

Exiling excellence

Graduate skills causing concern

Added: 22 Oct 2015

The majority of employers in the UK are unsatisfied with graduates, a new report suggests.

EDF Hinkley Point C nuclear power wide

UK poised for nuclear future

Added: 21 Oct 2015

Hinkley Point C will go ahead after EDF Energy and China General Nuclear Corporation (CGN) confirm …

Keady power station

Keadby power station to reopen

Added: 20 Oct 2015

Energy provider SSE has announced it will bring its 735MW gas-fired power station at Keadby, North …

Water research, Sheffield University lab

UK water research gets £3.9m boost

Added: 20 Oct 2015

A new £3.9million research project has been established to help meet the UK’s future needs for a cl…

Tata Newport foundary

Call for 'urgent' action on UK steel

Added: 19 Oct 2015

The UK government has laid out its strategy to assist the ailing steel sector following a crisis su…

Linde gas plant

Linde opens pilot synthesis gas plant

Added: 19 Oct 2015

Linde has invested €5 million (£3.7 million) in a new plant that will produce low-emission synthesi…

Algae-power under the microscope

Algae-power under the microscope

Added: 16 Oct 2015

A new high-tech facility in Munich will investigate whether the cultivation of algae can provide a …

Electricity transmission

Winter blackout fears allayed

Added: 15 Oct 2015

National Grid has published its annual Winter Outlook report, which looks at the energy margins ava…

GE's Predix software

GE opens app store for industry

Added: 12 Oct 2015

GE said it aimed to create the world’s largest app marketplace for industry as it opened up its Pre…

KP Snacks engineering workshop

Girls get a taste of food engineering

Added: 12 Oct 2015

Female students have been given a glimpse into food engineering by KP Snacks, as part of an industr…

Ineos Jim Ratcliffe

Ineos acquires North Sea assets

Added: 12 Oct 2015

Oil and gas exploration and production firm Ineos Upstream has acquired all UK North Sea gas fields…

White Rose CCS carbon capture Drax

Urgent call for CCS funding

Added: 7 Oct 2015

Targets for lowering carbon emissions from industry will remain out of reach without carbon dioxide…

EDF apprentice trainee skills2

Quotas to boost women in engineering

Added: 7 Oct 2015

Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) president Naomi Climer has called on employers to i…

Gardner Denver's Simmern facility

Gardner Denver sinks £7m into new plant

Added: 7 Oct 2015

Gardner Denver is investing over £7 million in a new centre at its Simmern production site in Germa…

Nuclear plants facing cyber threat

Added: 5 Oct 2015

Vulnerabilities within nuclear plants are putting the industry at risk of cyber attacks, a report p…

Kerry Group

Kerry opens food innovation hub

Added: 5 Oct 2015

Kerry Group has opened a €100m (£74m) global technology and innovation centre in Ireland.

Substation

Electricity supply a 'waste' of energy

Added: 5 Oct 2015

More than half of the energy used to supply the UK’s electricity is wasted before it ever reaches c…

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Girls ‘not smart enough’ for science

Added: 2 Oct 2015

Almost a third (32%) of girls aged 11-16 do not think they are clever enough to become scientists, …

Severn Trent Water

Severn Trent fined for sewage leak

Added: 29 Sep 2015

Severn Trent Water has been fined £480,000 after a series of incidents that caused raw sewage to le…