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Industry urges renewed focus on manufacturing and skills

Added: 4 Aug 2024

Manufacturing Technology Centre (MTC) CEO Dr Graham Hoare has described the news that the UK has fa…

New hub aims to fast-track UK digital supply chain

Added: 4 Aug 2024

Digital Catapult has launched its Digital Supply Chain Hub platform designed to enable strategic co…

Favourable response to Labour win but industry leaders demand action

Added: 9 Jul 2024

Labour’s parliamentary victory appears to have been greeted generally favourably within the process…

Join distillation expert Henry Kister in London

Added: 4 Jul 2024

Renowned distillation expert Henry Kister will be delivering the highly sought-after Practical Dist…

Manufacturing fall is ‘blip’ not reversal insist commentators

Added: 6 May 2024

A disappointing fall in the latest CIPS UK Manufacturing Purchasing Managers’ Index should not be t…

Polymers

Polymer pioneers put north west on the map

Added: 6 May 2024

Work has completed on a project to develop technology for 3D printed polymers for scaled up commerc…

Process safety engineer

Managing process safety in the round

Added: 1 May 2024

High hazard process safety needs a holistic approach that acknowledges competencies degrade over ti…

Government award to power up industry’s cutting edge computing

Added: 16 Apr 2024

The Centre for Modelling and Simulation (CFMS) has been awarded £2.4 million of funding from the De…

Global RoSPA win for factory that took workplace safety into the community

Added: 16 Apr 2024

An Indian factory run by an international cosmetics brand has won the Royal Society for the Prevent…

UK tops peers in EPO patent applications

Added: 25 Mar 2024

UK innovators their increased year on year European patent applications by a larger percentage than…

Plastic recycling

Europe on course to circular source plastics goals

Added: 25 Mar 2024

Europe is almost half way towards its goal of using a quarter of its plastics from circular sources…

New small-scale mixers from Silverson Machines

Added: 24 Mar 2024

Silverson Machines is launching new mixer variants at this year's CHEMUK show. These models complem…

Viewpoint: Working safely with heat transfer fluids in plastics manufacture

Added: 13 Mar 2024

Plastics and polymers are vital materials in manufacturing. Global Heat Transfer’s Clive Jones expl…

Retrofitting ageing pump systems offers energy savings and compliance

Added: 12 Mar 2024

Retrofits to outdated heating, cooling and water systems enable cost savings on the road to sustain…

AMRICC opening cements Staffs role as UK materials science centre

Added: 26 Feb 2024

Staffordshire has sealed its centuries-old reputation as the UK’s ceramics capital with the officia…

2024 Pump Industry Awards Finalists Revealed

Added: 26 Feb 2024

Fifty finalists across eight categories are squaring up for the hotly contested honours at the 2024…

Days left to join MacRobert’s engineering hall of fame

Added: 11 Jan 2024

The deadline is fast approaching for the final chance this year to enter one of UK engineering's mo…

Viewpoint: Working safely with heat transfer fluids in plastics manufacture

Added: 10 Jan 2024

Plastics and polymers are vital materials in manufacturing. Global Heat Transfer’s Clive Jones expl…

Case study: Pumps prove vital to decarbonisation and environmental materials

Added: 9 Jan 2024

Peristaltic pumps help decontaminate water at Cornish Metals’ new treatment plant in a former mine …

BCAS appoints Rohan as new president

Added: 20 Dec 2023

The British Compressed Air Society (BCAS) has appointed Steven Rohan as its new president in succes…