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Election analysis: What’s the effect for Brexit and the process industries?
Added: 9 Jun 2017
The hung parliament that has resulted from the general election has increased uncertainty over the …
More than £0.3 mill in R&D on offer to engineering innovators
Added: 30 May 2017
Seven engineering innovators will have the chance to share £350,000 of R&D support in a competition…
Academies: Brexit will see multi-million pound gap in STEM research support
Added: 24 May 2017
Britain’s departure from the European Union will leave a significant gap in support for the country…
Report warns half of all Scots jobs to be automated by 2030
Added: 8 May 2017
Nearly one in two jobs in Scotland are at risk of automation by the end of the next decade, suggest…
Materials regulation could bring £4bn benefit to UK, says study
Added: 24 Apr 2017
Modernising composite materials regulations could bring more than £4 billion worth of benefit to th…
EPSRC invests £4.7m in self-healing materials
Added: 20 Mar 2017
The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) has invested £4.7 million in the dev…
Bristol uni develops nuclear battery ‘powered by waste’
Added: 30 Nov 2016
Researchers at the University of Bristol have created a nuclear-powered battery that uses nuclear w…
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…
