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Manufacturing Barometer

Productivity harming manufacturing growth

Added: 10 Jun 2015

Majority of SMEs worried about productivity, while research claims that industrial standards could …

Gas detection

Have a safe summer

Added: 3 Jun 2015

So summer is here, and there’s more than whiff of safety issues in the air.

Dust explosion short course at the Wolfson Centre

New hazards: COMAH 2015

Added: 3 Jun 2015

The introduction of new COMAH regulations will see many smaller firms affected by the rules for the…

Manufacturing Barometer

Manufacturing loses momentum

Added: 1 Jun 2015

Figures released today suggest manufacturing is growing at a slower rate than expected, though CIPS…

David Cameron 10 Downing Street

Manufacturers want EU referendum

Added: 26 May 2015

UK manufacturers have called for a referendum on European Union (EU) membership to take place by au…

Atlas Copco Z compressor

Compressing costs

Added: 20 May 2015

New energy-efficient technologies mean compressors needn’t cost the earth.

Business secretary Sajid Javid

Government crackdown on late payments

Added: 20 May 2015

Newly-appointed business secretary Sajid Javid yesterday used his first speech to promise the gover…

EI

Energy Institute awards competition

Added: 19 May 2015

The EI Awards competition is calling for entries from all sectors of the global energy sector. Any …

David Cameron 10 Downing Street

Key industry ministers appointed to cabinet

Added: 12 May 2015

The government’s new-look all-Conservative cabinet will meet at Downing Street later today, with Pr…

Ed Miliband

Election skills

Added: 6 May 2015

Following tomorrow’s general election, key engineering issues such as skills shortages look set to …

Robert Ferris

Big challenges for nanomaterials

Added: 22 Apr 2015

Emerson Process Management’s Robert Ferris looks at the challenges faced by nanomaterials providers…

CPI Industrial Biotecnology

Bioplastics scale-up project starts

Added: 22 Apr 2015

Researchers from industry and academia have begun a £3 million project to scale-up the production o…

Ed Miliband

Labour manifesto focuses on industry

Added: 13 Apr 2015

The Labour Party was today the first of the major political parties to launch its manifesto for the…

George Osborne at the Manufacturing Technology Centre

Muted march of the makers

Added: 1 Apr 2015

This government came into power promising that it would rebalance the economy towards manufacturing…

Chocolate manufacturing plant

Manufacturing orders fall, says CBI

Added: 24 Mar 2015

Manufacturers’ order book levels have fallen this month, according to a survey by the CBI.

BASF plastics research

BASF carbon-fibre plastics study ends

Added: 9 Mar 2015

New processes and techniques for manufacturing thermoplastics strengthened by carbon fibres have be…

Chocolate manufacturing plant

Manchester launches manufacturing strategy

Added: 2 Mar 2015

Advanced materials, chemicals and food & drink processing are all set to play a role in a strategy …

Manufacturing Barometer

Manufacturers to boost technology spend

Added: 24 Feb 2015

More than half of all small and medium sized (SME) manufacturers in England are planning to invest …

Robert Langer

Follow your heart, says prize winner

Added: 5 Feb 2015

Winner of the 2015 Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering Robert Langer has advised students to foll…

Stan Higgins

Gone from the wind – industrial CCS

Added: 4 Feb 2015

Almost half of the emissions that need to be captured to battle climate change come from the proces…