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Manufacturing Barometer

Manufacturing loses momentum

Added: 1 Jun 2015

Figures released today suggest manufacturing is growing at a slower rate than expected, though CIPS…

David Cameron 10 Downing Street

Manufacturers want EU referendum

Added: 26 May 2015

UK manufacturers have called for a referendum on European Union (EU) membership to take place by au…

Atlas Copco Z compressor

Compressing costs

Added: 20 May 2015

New energy-efficient technologies mean compressors needn’t cost the earth.

SSE Ferrybridge coal power station

Ferrybridge power station to close

Added: 20 May 2015

SSE has announced it will shut its Ferrybridge coal-fired power station in West Yorkshire next year…

Business secretary Sajid Javid

Government crackdown on late payments

Added: 20 May 2015

Newly-appointed business secretary Sajid Javid yesterday used his first speech to promise the gover…

Cory biogas facility

Biogas grid worries fuel consultation

Added: 19 May 2015

Distribution trade body Energy Networks Association (ENA) has issued a consultation to gather indus…

EI

Energy Institute awards competition

Added: 19 May 2015

The EI Awards competition is calling for entries from all sectors of the global energy sector. Any …

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…