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Verder acquires Ponndorf pumps
Added: 13 Jul 2015
Positive displacement pumps manufacturer Verder has acquired German pumps company Ponndorf Gerätete…
Increase in engineering applicants
Added: 9 Jul 2015
Higher education authority UCAS has released figures that suggest more applicants are choosing to s…
Summer Budget: Industry response
Added: 8 Jul 2015
Chancellor George Osborne presented his 2015 summer Budget to Parliament earlier today but drew a m…
Food industry cuts water use
Added: 7 Jul 2015
Major food and drink manufacturers have cut their water usage by almost a quarter, according to fin…
Budget ‘should prioritise productivity’
Added: 6 Jul 2015
Manufacturing trade body EEF says the government must focus on growth and productivity in its summe…
Report highlights platform removal
Added: 1 Jul 2015
A report looking at the cost-efficient decommissioning and removal of offshore oil and gas platform…
NEL invests £1m in flow meter facility
Added: 1 Jul 2015
Oil & Gas consultancy NEL is investing £1 million to create the UK’s only flow meter calibration fa…
Energy associations plan merger
Added: 1 Jul 2015
The Association for Decentralised Energy (ADE) and the UK Demand Response Association (UKDRA) have …
Nuclear supply scheme launched
Added: 30 Jun 2015
Leaders of the nuclear industry will gather in London today to launch an initiative to broaden the …
Second Blackpool shale gas site refused
Added: 29 Jun 2015
Lancashire County Council today refused Cuadrilla planning permission to develop a shale gas site i…
Sewerage deaths show toxic gas threat
Added: 24 Jun 2015
Multiple deaths in sewer networks this month show why it is vital for workers to pay attention to s…
MIT chip harvests IoT potential
Added: 23 Jun 2015
An ultralow-power chip developed by engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) im…
Few parents think girls like engineering
Added: 23 Jun 2015
Just 7% of parents think that engineering appeals to their daughters, according to research publish…
Obsolete stock poses "critical risk"
Added: 22 Jun 2015
Obsolete storeroom stock is posing a ‘critical risk’ to UK manufacturing productivity, according to…
Air leaks ‘costing’ UK industry
Added: 16 Jun 2015
Compressed air leaks are costing UK industry thousands of pounds every year, according to fluid pow…
Report backs CCS tax break for oil industry
Added: 16 Jun 2015
The government must introduce tax breaks and other fiscal incentives to encourage the use of Carbon…
Split planning decision for Blackpool shale
Added: 16 Jun 2015
Lancashire County Council planning officers yesterday recommended that one of Cuadrilla’s proposed …
Industry meets to expand plant shutdowns
Added: 15 Jun 2015
Representatives from the process industries will meet in London this week to discuss how to grow th…
Innovative process starts at sewage plant
Added: 10 Jun 2015
Nottingham’s Stoke Bardolph wastewater treatment works is close to completing a three-stage biologi…
Productivity harming manufacturing growth
Added: 10 Jun 2015
Majority of SMEs worried about productivity, while research claims that industrial standards could …
