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Manufacturing growth 'faded away'
Added: 7 Dec 2015
A survey published by manufacturers’ organisation EEF says UK manufacturing is facing a difficult e…
Manufacturing pace loses momentum
Added: 2 Dec 2015
The UK manufacturing sector experienced a moderate ease in growth during November, the latest Marki…
Sewage gas to power waste plant
Added: 30 Nov 2015
Siemens technology is being used to convert the Ebswien wastewater treatment works in Vienna into a…
£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: new frontiers
Added: 10 Nov 2015
From humble beginnings, additive manufacturing has evolved into a process that impacts almost every…
Amec Foster inks graphene deal
Added: 9 Nov 2015
Amec Foster Wheeler has been appointed the preferred engineering partner to Applied Graphene Materi…
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…
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 hinders UK growth
Added: 27 Oct 2015
The UK economy grew between July and September despite a lack of manufacturing production, statisti…
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…
Urgent call for CCS funding
Added: 7 Oct 2015
Targets for lowering carbon emissions from industry will remain out of reach without carbon dioxide…
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 …
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 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…
Skills support impacting SMEs
Added: 15 Sep 2015
Small and medium sized enterprises (SME) are building a competitive advantage through training and …
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…
Breakthrough in plant efficiency
Added: 10 Sep 2015
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have revealed new analysis that coul…
Materials boost for energy storage
Added: 25 Aug 2015
Funding to develop advanced materials for future energy storage technologies has been announced.
UK manufacturers boast innovation
Added: 24 Aug 2015
Manufacturers in the UK are using innovation to deliver productivity improvements and export growth…
Graphene given recycling boost
Added: 10 Aug 2015
Engineers at the Graphene Flagship have demonstrated a recyclable technique that yields cost-effect…
