All Materials

Industry strategy can't wait for Westminster
Added: 3 Sep 2018
Government and industry appear to occupy two parallel universes when it comes to the subject of 29 …

Thickness profile measurement system provides Liberty from manual approach
Added: 18 Jul 2018
Liberty Speciality Steel produces high value, precision-engineered alloy and stainless steel produc…

How holistic analytics saved a company from losing business worth millions
Added: 20 Jun 2018
Honeywell expertise helped save one client business worth $20 million a year by rapidly identifying…

University launches £7.5 million Northern Ireland advanced manufacturing technology site
Added: 14 Jun 2018
Queen’s University Belfast has opened a new £7.5 million state-of-the-art advanced manufacturing te…

Sine pumps optimise high viscosity resin delivery
Added: 24 May 2018
One of the world’s largest wind turbine manufacturers, Enercon, relies on its pumps to deliver prot…

Green light for employer-led materials science apprenticeship degree
Added: 11 May 2018
The Institute for Apprenticeships has approved the development of the occupational standard for the…

Investing in pumps modernisation is essential for survival
Added: 8 May 2018
It’s a bald reminder to anyone who assesses a product’s overall cost purely on the basis of its pri…

Lavender marks retirement with handover to staff
Added: 23 Apr 2018
Lavender International chief Dave Lavender has stepped down after 40 years at the forefront of his …

Enzyme breakthrough could revolutionise plastic recycling
Added: 17 Apr 2018
Scientists experimenting with an enzyme that helps bacteria digest plastic have engineered a faster…

Emerson Global Users Exchange EMEA 2018, The Hague
Added: 9 Apr 2018
Size, as they say, isn’t everything. Yet, with 1600 attendees from more than 50 countries and aroun…

BSC International Safety Awards nominees announced
Added: 19 Mar 2018
Organisations from the process sectors are strongly represented in this year’s British Safety Counc…

EPSRC awards Huddersfield University £1.5m to expand materials research
Added: 20 Feb 2018
The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) has awarded the University of Hudder…

Tata Steel ‘no comment’ on reports of new Port Talbot investment
Added: 13 Feb 2018
Tata Steel has refused to comment on reports that it is planning to commit millions of pounds to he…

Xylem chief takes over as BPMA head
Added: 4 Dec 2017
Xylem Water Solutions managing director Duncan Lewis has officially taken over as the president of …

EEF issues pre-Budget challenge to Hammond
Added: 7 Nov 2017
EEF chief executive Terry Scuoler has called on Chancellor Philip Hammond to agree a fiscal package…
‘Human-robot collaboration needed to counter 0.6 million job threat’
Added: 1 Nov 2017
An estimated 0.6 million UK jobs will disappear in one industrial sector alone over the next 20 yea…

Spirax Sarco solves metal refiner's carbon efficiency challenge
Added: 31 Oct 2017
The precious metal refining industry notoriously consumes significant amounts of heat and chemicals…

Industry 4.0: the antidote to supply chain disruption
Added: 31 Oct 2017
Industry 4.0 and smart use of data is not disrupting the supply chain, says LLamasoft’s Michael Wal…

Business dissatisfaction with UK infrastructure reaches record levels
Added: 24 Oct 2017
Record numbers of UK companies are dissatisfied with the rate of improvement to the country’s infra…

BEIS secretary Clarke to headline EEF manufacturing conference
Added: 24 Oct 2017
Greg Clarke, Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy has been confirmed as …