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PE Roundup 6 July – Challenging stats, major investment, mixed family firm fortunes and more...
Added: 5 Jul 2023
UK manufacturing jobs experienced growth in multiple regions and nations. Make UK's Annual Manufact…

PE Roundup 1 July – Steel warning, sustainable progress, young winners, new contracts, appointments
Added: 29 Jun 2023
DG of UK Steel Gareth Stace warned that almost 23 million tonnes of non-EU steel could flood the UK…

Your guide through the safety compliance jungle
Added: 14 Jun 2023
The Association of Electrical and Mechanical Trades’ Peter Rawlinson provides us with some guidance…

Bath says graphene research offers industrial disinfectant breakthrough
Added: 13 Jun 2023
Researchers at the University of Bath say they have developed a new graphene based process that can…

Science department fires £2 million award for Digital and HVM Catapults
Added: 13 Jun 2023
The new Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) has awarded £2 million jointly to …

New explosion-proof pump from KNF
Added: 31 May 2023
Strict regulations are in place for the processing and distribution of explosive gases. KNF meets c…

Green engineering roles increased 55% in five years says report
Added: 24 May 2023
Demand for engineers is likely to grow faster than for most professions, thanks to the UK’s increas…

PE Roundup 24 May: Is falling manufacturing employment a benefit?
Added: 24 May 2023
Falling manufacturing employment numbers could be a positive rather than a negative sign suggested …

PE roundup 7 May: EU financing, patents boost, major contracts, project launch, investment
Added: 6 May 2023
TÜV SÜD National Engineering Laboratory has secured £0.95 million from Horizon Europe to build the …

PE roundup 18 April: output, appointments, orders, certification, awards
Added: 18 Apr 2023
Lontra’s new 60,000sq ft smart factory manufacturing centre in Doncaster (see pic) has manufactured…

PE roundup 3 Apr: Innovator deadline, markets, safety, upskilling, supply chain, incentives...
Added: 3 Apr 2023
Nine out of ten engineers working in UK manufacturing report that business has been negatively impa…

PE roundup 27 March: BCAS, Schneider Electric, Avantium, Engineering UK, Wood, AMRC
Added: 27 Mar 2023
Digital collaboration, key appointments, contracts, new builds, anniversaries, contracts... process…

Process roundup: Endress+Hauser, TÜV SÜD, Unibloc, Siemens, MTC
Added: 9 Mar 2023
The Super Deduction Tax Break introduced in April 2021 to help kickstart the post-Covid economy and…

Process roundup: Thales, Confederation of British Metalforming, Sparck Technologies, MHA
Added: 3 Mar 2023
Global company Thales announced it will be hiring 12,000 new employees internationally, including m…

Strohm scales up operations as it completes plant expansion and plans recruitment drive
Added: 22 Feb 2023
Strohm, the world’s first producer of Thermoplastic Composite Pipes (TCP), has completed its plant…

Process roundup: Bühler, Celeros, AEMT, Tesvolt, Sulzer and more
Added: 20 Feb 2023
An update on some of the latest process industry and manufacturing developments including new build…

Geopolitics shows biggest increase as supply chain disruptor but fails to make Top 10
Added: 13 Feb 2023
Supply chain disruptions caused by geopolitical instability showed a massive increase during 2022, …

Eleanor’s pollution fighting backpack wins IET competition
Added: 10 Feb 2023
Huddersfield twelve-year-old Eleanor Wood’s pollution filtering backpack has won her the Instituti…

Appointments updates from the process sectors
Added: 10 Feb 2023
A selection of some of the recent appointments across the various process sectors...

UK industrial clusters gain from £6 mill award’s raft of decarbonisation projects
Added: 9 Feb 2023
Britain’s largest industrial clusters are the focus of a £6 million award to accelerate decarbonisa…