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Engineering exams face axe

Added: 5 Jun 2014

Exams in engineering are to be scrapped by 2017 under proposals announced yesterday.

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Honeywell launches project workflow tool

Added: 5 Jun 2014

Honeywell Process Solutions (HPS) this week launched its latest project workflow tool.

Dominion Cove Point LNG

Shale LNG “expensive” says IEA

Added: 4 Jun 2014

The cost of bringing US shale gas into Europe as Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) is likely to be more e…

MT Energie AD plant

Energy efficiency competition progresses

Added: 4 Jun 2014

Three firms complete design stage in the Energy Technology Institute (ETI) £2.8m waste to energy co…

EDF Hinkley Point C nuclear power wide

UK “risks losing” nuclear industry

Added: 2 Jun 2014

Better government support is needed to reinvigorate the UK nuclear supply chain, says think-tank re…

Nuclear engineers

Industrial wireless blackout warning

Added: 30 May 2014

Negotiations over a European standard for industrial wireless devices threaten to render vital plan…

IMechE president Mark Hunt

Engineering is “male” profession

Added: 28 May 2014

A public poll suggests engineering is still widely considered a “male” profession.

The Pump Centre conference

Alfa Laval makes acquisition

Added: 28 May 2014

Pumps firm acquires marine and offshore pumping systems company.

Shale drilling illustration

Streamlined planning for shale development

Added: 28 May 2014

The Government today announced proposals to speed up the development of shale oil and gas in the UK…

Oil & gas facility showing pipework

Pipework firm in acquisition deal

Added: 23 May 2014

An investment company has announced the acquisition of specialist pipework engineering firm Haycock…

GGS GasClam monitoring Blackpool shale gas site

Shale gas suppliers team up

Added: 21 May 2014

Two environmental services firms currently working with Cuadrilla today announced a joint venture t…

Shale fracking

Cuadrilla confirms Blackpool fracking plans

Added: 20 May 2014

Shale oil & gas developer Cuadrilla yesterday confirmed it intends to submit planning applications …

Pharmaceutical industry must focus on manufacturing

Pfizer ends pursuit of AstraZeneca

Added: 20 May 2014

US Pharmaceuticals firm Pfizer has had its final proposal to acquire AstraZeneca rejected by the co…

Cyber security

Manufacturers "ignoring" cyber threat

Added: 15 May 2014

Manufacturing businesses are putting their online safety at risk by ignoring cyber-security, new da…

Ineos Grangemouth

Grangemouth shale imports win planning

Added: 15 May 2014

Ineos’ plans to build a storage tank for US shale gas imports at its Grangemouth petrochemicals fac…

EDF apprentice trainee skills2

Scale of gender pay gap revealed

Added: 14 May 2014

Women in engineering sectors typically earn 25% less than men by the age of 40, a new survey has fo…

Wood

Energy probe “creates uncertainty”

Added: 14 May 2014

The government was yesterday accused of introducing further uncertainty into the UK energy market a…

Solvay chemicals plant, US

Ineos must sell Runcorn sites

Added: 13 May 2014

The European Commission has granted clearance to chemicals firms Ineos and Solvay for their propose…

Drax biomass storage domes

Fuel shortage forces Drax co-firing

Added: 13 May 2014

Drax’s second unit to convert to biomass is now operational, but only on a co-firing basis with coa…

Nestle apprenctice at work Jordan Phillips

Plastics and food drive production growth

Added: 9 May 2014

Manufacturing was the strongest area of UK production growth, with process industries such as plast…