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Tata’s speciality steels business to sell for £100m
Added: 28 Nov 2016
Tata Steel has announced plans to sell its UK-based speciality steels business to Liberty House for…
MIT moves closer to creating biodegradable plastics
Added: 14 Nov 2016
Chemists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have determined the structure of a bact…
Sheffield launches degree-level apprenticeships
Added: 12 Nov 2016
Sheffield and Sheffield Hallam universities have launched a degree-level apprenticeship programme t…
EU imposes steel dumping tariffs on China
Added: 7 Oct 2016
The European Commission has moved to impose provisional anti-dumping tariffs on imports of hot-roll…
Sheffield to open £2m nanomaterials lab
Added: 6 Oct 2016
A £2 million laboratory is opening at the University of Sheffield on Friday, which will help scient…
Oxford opens nanomaterials research centre
Added: 15 Sep 2016
A new research centre located at the University of Oxford’s Harwell Campus will focus on the study …
Welsh firm takes Hinkley steel order
Added: 8 Sep 2016
Welsh steel firm Express Reinforcements has been chosen to supply 200,000 tonnes of reinforced stee…
Funding carbon capture an ‘urgent priority’
Added: 28 Jul 2016
Carbon Capture & Storage (CCS) is essential to meeting the global warming limits established in the…
Manufacturers fear ‘Brexit’ fallout as trading outlook weakens
Added: 19 Jul 2016
Business confidence among UK manufacturers has tumbled following the vote to exit the EU, according…
Smart plastics to ‘sense’ equipment failure
Added: 14 Jul 2016
Igus, a German developer of specialist plastics, has unveiled new products to add Industry 4.0 capa…
Graduate innovators given helping hand
Added: 13 Jul 2016
The Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng) has awarded four enterprise fellowships to graduate entrep…
UK Steel unveils Brexit blueprint
Added: 8 Jul 2016
UK Steel has published a Brexit manifesto outlining measures the government should consider to aver…
Brexit branded a ‘gamble’ for UK manufacturing
Added: 22 Jun 2016
The head of the national trade union centre (TUC) and the chief of Britain’s manufacturing employer…
BASF splashes $3.2bn on Chemetall
Added: 21 Jun 2016
BASF has bought a German-based surface treatment business from US specialty chemicals company, Albe…
‘Brexit’ no silver bullet warns UK Steel
Added: 16 Jun 2016
The director of UK Steel, Gareth Stace, said this week that Britain would be better able to prevent…
Crystal ‘clears up’ nuclear waste
Added: 13 Jun 2016
Researchers from the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and the US have discovered a n…
SABIC joins Teesside carbon capture collective
Added: 9 Jun 2016
Teesside Collective has added another industrial heavyweight to its group of companies working to d…
Tata Steel completes sale of European unit
Added: 1 Jun 2016
Tata Steel UK has announced completion of the sale of its Long Products Europe business to Greybull…
New IChemE president to redraw strategy
Added: 31 May 2016
The Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE) will undergo a thorough review of governance and str…
Collaborative group proposes natural carbon use
Added: 19 Apr 2016
Academics and industry representatives have joined forces to develop a new model for decarbonisatio…
