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North Sea offshore oil and gas

Mokveld acquires meter maker

Added: 19 May 2015

Dutch valves manufacturer Mokveld Valves has acquired Norwegian flow measurement specialist Abbon f…

Food machine

Carbon Trust cooks up savings

Added: 13 May 2015

Results from industry trials conducted by the Carbon Trust demonstrate that improved ventilation in…

Lontra founder Steve Lindsey

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…

David Cameron 10 Downing Street

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…

North Sea offshore oil and gas

Decommissioning in the spotlight

Added: 6 May 2015

ABB study aims to identify most efficient strategies to promote circular economy.

HMI

Honeywell opens cyber security lab

Added: 6 May 2015

Industrial test facility to bolster development of technological solutions.

Women in Work figures

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 B nuclear power station

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 …

check valve before and after cleaning.

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 chief executive Bob Dudley

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…

Lucy Ackland at NECR 2015

Female focus at engineering event

Added: 27 Apr 2015

A major focus of The National Engineering & Construction Recruitment Exhibition (NECR) 2015 looked …

CPI Industrial Biotecnology

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…

Lab professional

Skills initiative reaches milestone

Added: 20 Apr 2015

The Science Industry Partnership (SIP) has surpassed 2,000 people being trained across the chemical…

Dounreay birds eye view

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…

Exiling excellence

Engineering education centre launched

Added: 16 Apr 2015

University College London (UCL) has today launched the UCL Centre for Engineering Education which i…

Nick Clegg

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.

Shell prelude FLNG3

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 …

David Cameron

Skills concern over Tory manifesto

Added: 14 Apr 2015

The Conservative Party launched its manifesto for the general election today and immediately drew c…

Ed Miliband

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…

Engineering skills shortage

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…