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Make UK Manufacturer of the Year celebrates hat trick of wins
Added: 15 Feb 2023
Notts-based Swiftool Precision Engineering walked away with a hat trick of wins after scooping Manu…

Demand to Sunak for manufacturing minister and new industrial strategy
Added: 14 Feb 2023
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak must ensure the Government urgently introduces a new industrial strategy…

Geopolitics shows biggest increase as supply chain disruptor but fails to make Top 10
Added: 13 Feb 2023
Supply chain disruptions caused by geopolitical instability showed a massive increase during 2022, …

Eleanor’s pollution fighting backpack wins IET competition
Added: 10 Feb 2023
Huddersfield twelve-year-old Eleanor Wood’s pollution filtering backpack has won her the Instituti…

Appointments updates from the process sectors
Added: 10 Feb 2023
A selection of some of the recent appointments across the various process sectors...

Process business news briefs update...
Added: 10 Feb 2023
Contracts, appointments, partnerships, new builds and refurbishments from the likes of Schneider El…

UK industrial clusters gain from £6 mill award’s raft of decarbonisation projects
Added: 9 Feb 2023
Britain’s largest industrial clusters are the focus of a £6 million award to accelerate decarbonisa…

Sunak shuffle: strategic sense or rearranging the deckchairs?
Added: 8 Feb 2023
From a political perspective, prime minister Rishi Sunak’s predicted mini-reshuffle is either far s…

QE Prize for Engineering goes to record breaking energy pioneers
Added: 8 Feb 2023
The 2023 Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering has been shared between four academics for their dev…

New academy offers utilities employees digital training
Added: 8 Feb 2023
UK Power Networks has launched a new Digital Academy for the utilities sector offering up to 400 sp…

Boom in entries for new project management degree apprenticeships
Added: 8 Feb 2023
Project management degree apprenticeships have increased 125% in the three years following their in…

Divert ‘wasted’ Apprenticeship Levy to plug digital skills gap says IET
Added: 6 Feb 2023
Two billion pounds of “wasted” Apprenticeship Levy payments should be diverted to engineering firms…

Process contract news update...
Added: 6 Feb 2023
Jungheinrich, Decom Engineering, Atkins, Morrison Engineering Services, THREE360 Energy and Fluence…

Babcock Wanson heralds Euro drive with trio of acquisitions
Added: 5 Feb 2023
Babcock Wanson Group has acquired European firms Parat and PBS Power, bringing its total continenta…

Heat pumps could reduce biogas carbon footprint more than a third, claims research
Added: 17 Jan 2023
Using air-source heat pumps for anaerobic digestion could slash the carbon footprint of the process…

Labour and Tory ex-ministers launch engineering apprenticeships inquiry
Added: 16 Jan 2023
Former Labour and Tory ministers Lords Knight and Willetts have launched an inquiry with support fr…

Clock ticking to join UK engineering greats with MacRobert Award win
Added: 16 Jan 2023
Time is running out to enter one of the most sought-after prizes in engineering, the annual MacRobe…

IET veteran Almond becomes new chief executive
Added: 9 Jan 2023
Ed Almond is the new Chief Executive and Secretary (CES) of the Institution of Engineering and Tech…

Manufacturers welcome energy discount but point to Germany
Added: 9 Jan 2023
Industry leaders have responded with relief to the announcement of the Government’s new year-long E…

Top US lab hails its nuclear fusion breakthrough
Added: 14 Dec 2022
US scientists have hailed a landmark achievement in nuclear fusion that could one day transform ene…