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Manufacturing Barometer

£92m for manufacturing hubs

Added: 20 Nov 2015

Universities and science minister Jo Johnson has today announced £92 million worth of investment fo…

Additive manufacturing

Additive manufacturing: new frontiers

Added: 10 Nov 2015

From humble beginnings, additive manufacturing has evolved into a process that impacts almost every…

Graphene impression

Amec Foster inks graphene deal

Added: 9 Nov 2015

Amec Foster Wheeler has been appointed the preferred engineering partner to Applied Graphene Materi…

Tata Steel Scunthorpe works

EU agrees to crisis steel meeting

Added: 30 Oct 2015

EU ministers have agreed to hold an emergency meeting on the UK steel crisis following an appeal fr…

SSE Ferrybridge coal power station

Multifuel power plant wins approval

Added: 28 Oct 2015

A second multifuel power station situated at Ferrybridge, West Yorkshire has been approved for cons…

Manufacturing Barometer

Manufacturing hinders UK growth

Added: 27 Oct 2015

The UK economy grew between July and September despite a lack of manufacturing production, statisti…

Tata Newport foundary

Call for 'urgent' action on UK steel

Added: 19 Oct 2015

The UK government has laid out its strategy to assist the ailing steel sector following a crisis su…

White Rose CCS carbon capture Drax

Urgent call for CCS funding

Added: 7 Oct 2015

Targets for lowering carbon emissions from industry will remain out of reach without carbon dioxide…

Solvay chemicals plant, US

Chemical firm solves PET ‘puzzle’

Added: 28 Sep 2015

A process that allows all grades of PET (plastics) to be recycled will soon be commercialised by a …

Cyber security

Hacked off?

Added: 22 Sep 2015

Microsoft’s new operating system (OS) Windows 10 was officially launched in July. But how has it af…

Amazon

Amazon UK to supply industry and labs

Added: 22 Sep 2015

Amazon today launched an online industrial and scientific supply store in the UK, which it says wil…

Pharmaceutical industry must focus on manufacturing

Skills support impacting SMEs

Added: 15 Sep 2015

Small and medium sized enterprises (SME) are building a competitive advantage through training and …

Manufacturing Barometer

Scrap ineffective green taxes, says EEF

Added: 14 Sep 2015

A report published by manufacturers’ organisation EEF calls on the government to scrap the Carbon F…

Navdeep Singh Dhillon

Breakthrough in plant efficiency

Added: 10 Sep 2015

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have revealed new analysis that coul…

Batteries

Materials boost for energy storage

Added: 25 Aug 2015

Funding to develop advanced materials for future energy storage technologies has been announced.

Manufacturing Barometer

UK manufacturers boast innovation

Added: 24 Aug 2015

Manufacturers in the UK are using innovation to deliver productivity improvements and export growth…

Graphene impression

Graphene given recycling boost

Added: 10 Aug 2015

Engineers at the Graphene Flagship have demonstrated a recyclable technique that yields cost-effect…

Spritam

FDA approves 3D-printed drug

Added: 5 Aug 2015

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has broken ground by approving the manufacture of the wor…

Sheet metal

Metal flow 'boosts' manufacturing

Added: 28 Jul 2015

Researchers at Purdue University, US have discovered a new type of metal deformation and a way to s…

National Grid control centre

In demand

Added: 9 Jul 2015

With plant closures outstripping the supply of new electricity generating capacity, last month saw …