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Mokveld acquires meter maker
Added: 19 May 2015
Dutch valves manufacturer Mokveld Valves has acquired Norwegian flow measurement specialist Abbon f…
Carbon Trust cooks up savings
Added: 13 May 2015
Results from industry trials conducted by the Carbon Trust demonstrate that improved ventilation in…

Lontra wins grant for ‘BladeAir’ project
Added: 13 May 2015
Midlands firm Lontra has secured a £250,000 grant from Innovate UK to develop a prototype of its Bl…

Key industry ministers appointed to cabinet
Added: 12 May 2015
The government’s new-look all-Conservative cabinet will meet at Downing Street later today, with Pr…

Decommissioning in the spotlight
Added: 6 May 2015
ABB study aims to identify most efficient strategies to promote circular economy.
Honeywell opens cyber security lab
Added: 6 May 2015
Industrial test facility to bolster development of technological solutions.
Women 'take advantage' of careers scheme
Added: 5 May 2015
Nearly 200 women have completed a programme designed to help overcome barriers to career progressio…
Dungeness in £30m maintenance shutdown
Added: 30 Apr 2015
EDF Energy will tomorrow take one of the two nuclear reactors at Dungeness B power station in Kent …
Fouling project seeks industry partner
Added: 28 Apr 2015
Research project will cut the cost of industrial fouling clean-up by 50%, its developers claim.

BP refining profits double
Added: 28 Apr 2015
BP today announced downstream oil & gas pre-tax profits of $2.2 billion (£1.44bn) for the first thr…
Female focus at engineering event
Added: 27 Apr 2015
A major focus of The National Engineering & Construction Recruitment Exhibition (NECR) 2015 looked …

Bioplastics scale-up project starts
Added: 22 Apr 2015
Researchers from industry and academia have begun a £3 million project to scale-up the production o…
Skills initiative reaches milestone
Added: 20 Apr 2015
The Science Industry Partnership (SIP) has surpassed 2,000 people being trained across the chemical…

Amec FW wins nuclear decommissioning role
Added: 16 Apr 2015
The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) has awarded Amec Foster Wheeler a contract to provide d…
Engineering education centre launched
Added: 16 Apr 2015
University College London (UCL) has today launched the UCL Centre for Engineering Education which i…

Lib Dems to double innovation spend
Added: 15 Apr 2015
Party’s manifesto supports Catapult Centres, while Ukip promises to scrap STEM subject tuition fees.

Oil prices driving Shell-BG merger
Added: 15 Apr 2015
Shell’s proposed £47 billion takeover of BG Group could be the first of many oil & gas mergers and …

Skills concern over Tory manifesto
Added: 14 Apr 2015
The Conservative Party launched its manifesto for the general election today and immediately drew c…

Labour manifesto focuses on industry
Added: 13 Apr 2015
The Labour Party was today the first of the major political parties to launch its manifesto for the…
Semta pioneers STEM initiative
Added: 9 Apr 2015
Employer-led skills body Semta has launched the STEM Exchange in an effort to bring further educati…