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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…

A drilling ship Polar Pioneer in Dutch Harbor, Alaska

Shell pulls out of Alaska

Added: 29 Sep 2015

Oil and gas firm Shell has announced it will abandon drilling operations off the coast of Alaska.

Solvay chemicals plant, US

Chemical firm solves PET ‘puzzle’

Added: 28 Sep 2015

A process that allows all grades of PET (plastics) to be recycled will soon be commercialised by a …

White Rose CCS carbon capture Drax

Drax abandons CCS project

Added: 25 Sep 2015

Energy firm Drax has announced it will end further investment in the 426MW White Rose carbon captur…

United Utilities reservoir

Utility counts cost of water bug

Added: 23 Sep 2015

United Utilities revealed today that water quality issues suffered in Lancashire last month would c…

Estover CHP, Northumberland

Pharma firms go green

Added: 23 Sep 2015

A new renewable energy plant located in Cramlington, Northumberland will have an annual generating …

Åsgard subsea compression

Subsea gas plant is world first

Added: 22 Sep 2015

The world’s first subsea gas compression plant has officially come online, its developer Statoil ha…

Amazon

Amazon UK to supply industry and labs

Added: 22 Sep 2015

Amazon today launched an online industrial and scientific supply store in the UK, which it says wil…

EDF Hinkley Point C nuclear power wide

Osborne announces £2bn Hinkley deal

Added: 21 Sep 2015

Chancellor George Osborne has today announced a £2 billion guarantee with China for the development…

Northumbrian Water Group's treatment works

Utilities splash-out on upgrades

Added: 18 Sep 2015

Water supply and treatment utility Yorkshire Water has announced a £100 million mechanical contract…