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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…

Ed Miliband

Election skills

Added: 6 May 2015

Following tomorrow’s general election, key engineering issues such as skills shortages look set to …

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 …

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…

Weltec AD

Weltec builds on biogas success

Added: 8 Apr 2015

Weltec Biopower is building a 500-kW anaerobic digestion plant for vegetable producer Gilfresh Prod…

Ineos Grangemouth

Funding for Grangemouth CCS

Added: 27 Mar 2015

The UK and Scottish governments today announced joint funding for a proposed Carbon Capture and Sto…

David Cameron meets apprentices at BAE Systems

PM launches degree apprenticeships

Added: 12 Mar 2015

Prime Minister David Cameron has announced plans to rollout nine freely available degree apprentice…

Buncefield2

Process safety: barely begun

Added: 11 Mar 2015

Ten years on from the Buncefield explosion, only small steps have been taken to establish a process…

Manufacturing Barometer

Manufacturers to boost technology spend

Added: 24 Feb 2015

More than half of all small and medium sized (SME) manufacturers in England are planning to invest …

White Rose CCS carbon capture Drax

Critical decade for CCS success

Added: 13 Feb 2015

The UK is entering a critical decade for the delivery of a low carbon economy by 2050, with Carbon …

United Utilities training centre

Water utility tackles skills shortage

Added: 12 Feb 2015

Water firm United Utilities has invested £1.5 million in a new technical training centre located at…

Titan Enterprises

Ultrasonic water meter trialled by Titan

Added: 6 Feb 2015

Titan Enterprises has built an ultrasonic water meter technology demonstrator using its Atrato flow…

Stan Higgins

Gone from the wind – industrial CCS

Added: 4 Feb 2015

Almost half of the emissions that need to be captured to battle climate change come from the proces…

Dungeness B nuclear power station

Dungeness nuclear plant life to be extended

Added: 20 Jan 2015

EDF Energy today announced plans to extend the operational life of Dungeness B nuclear power plant …

Steve Donnelly and MIAMI

Data study fuels nuclear safety

Added: 20 Jan 2015

Engineers at the University of Huddersfield are using electron microscopy to ensure the safety of t…

Students in the design phase of their degrees

Investment boost for engineering talent

Added: 15 Jan 2015

The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) is investing £1.2 million in up and coming engi…

money trees skills wealth

A wealth of opportunity

Added: 14 Jan 2015

Chemical engineering graduates earn some of the best salaries in the country. But does this stop th…

Sellafield nuclear facility

Sellafield: too big to be private

Added: 14 Jan 2015

Energy and climate change secretary Ed Davey made a startling admission yesterday as he informed pa…

Pilz safety relays receive nuclear approval

Amec Areva team loses Sellafield role

Added: 13 Jan 2015

The government this morning confirmed that Nuclear Management Partners (NMP), a consortium of Amec …

SIHI Isochem modular chemical pump

Flowserve buys Dutch pump manufacturer

Added: 8 Jan 2015

Pumps and valves manufacturer Flowserve yesterday confirmed it had completed its acquisition the Ne…