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Make UK delivers pre-Budget demand for manufacturing
Added: 16 Nov 2025
Britain’s manufacturers are pre-empting the forthcoming Budget by urging the Government to focus so…

Process news in brief: sector recruitment, expansions, training, appointments, contracts
Added: 25 Oct 2025
Hereford’s New Model Institute for Technology & Engineering (NMITE) is celebrating its largest-ever…

Fifty years of VSDs — and we’re just getting started
Added: 25 Oct 2025
Fifty years ago, an innovation quietly emerged that would go on to transform the way we power moder…

Start-up and college to launch industrial waste-to-feedstock trading platform
Added: 24 Oct 2025
A collaboration between a business startup and a college, aided by a biotech support organisation, …

Beyond predictive maintenance: unlocking AI value
Added: 17 Oct 2025
Process industry consideration of AI’s potential tends to focus on predictive maintenance but often…

From Paper to Predictive: overcoming cultural barriers in process industry digitalisation
Added: 24 Sep 2025
The technology’s already here, the legislative framework is encouraging process firms to endorse di…
Seven decades of sustainable success
Added: 8 Sep 2025
Endress+Hauser has always prided themselves on supporting their customers with their ‘first serve, …

RAEng mourns loss of former chief Sir David Davies
Added: 21 Aug 2025
Former Royal Academy of Engineering president and government adviser Sir David Davies has died at t…

PE news in brief: chemicals supply chain, steel closure, overtime issues
Added: 21 Aug 2025
The Chemical Business Association has reported “cautious optimism” in its Q2 2025 supply chain surv…

Busch co-founder Dr Karl Busch dies aged 96
Added: 22 Jul 2025
Dr Karl Busch, co-founder/owner of global vacuum specialist the Busch Group, has died at the age of…

Steel industry welcome for business secretary’s commitment to sector
Added: 3 Jul 2025
Business secretary Jonathan Reynolds, has “again shown that he is on the side of British industry i…

Liverpool AM startup secures £0.7 million-plus in a year
Added: 26 May 2025
Liverpool-based advanced manufacturing startup Atomik-AM has secured financial aid of £0.6 million …

Scientists to scale up production of factory-grade cellulose from cow dung
Added: 26 May 2025
University scientists have created a technique to turn cow dung into manufacturing grade cellulose.

Why do we measure surface energy?
Added: 22 May 2025
Wettability is a prerequisite for adhesion and bonding, so understanding surface energy is critical…

PE News in brief: trade deal, O&G study, appointments and more
Added: 19 May 2025
Process industry organisations gave a positive early response to the announcement of the UK's newly…

Blackburn opens defoamer plant to take on the world
Added: 13 May 2025
Specialty chemicals company Blackburn Chemicals Limited has opened its new £14 million defoamer fac…

Europe accused of trailing Middle East on sustainable plastics policy
Added: 10 Apr 2025
The European Union is “stuck in the past” in its attitude to so-called oxo-biodegradable plastics, …

Entrepreneur Jackson is new Digital Catapult chair
Added: 10 Apr 2025
Entrepreneur and academic professor Keith Jackson is the new chair of deep tech accelerator Digital…

Trump tariffs add 10% for imports from UK but avoid 20% levied on EU
Added: 3 Apr 2025
Manufacturers and government have reacted with concern to the imposition of a 10% tariff on imports…

Defence commitment boosts industry response to spring statement
Added: 27 Mar 2025
Manufacturers have welcomed the defence spending commitments in Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ spring st…