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David Cameron

Skills concern over Tory manifesto

Added: 14 Apr 2015

The Conservative Party launched its manifesto for the general election today and immediately drew c…

Stan Higgins

Low oil price destabilising process industries

Added: 8 Apr 2015

Despite low feedstock costs, overall instability caused by oil price fluctuations is bad for the pr…

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…

Ineos Grangemouth

Funding for Grangemouth CCS

Added: 27 Mar 2015

The UK and Scottish governments today announced joint funding for a proposed Carbon Capture and Sto…

Nestle apprenctice at work Jordan Phillips

Faltering fightback

Added: 25 Mar 2015

Much was made by George Osborne in last week’s budget about an apparent renaissance in UK manufactu…

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.

Buncefield fire

Safety: a ticking timebomb

Added: 11 Mar 2015

Later this year the process industry will mark an anniversary it would prefer to forget: 10 years s…

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Process safety: barely begun

Added: 11 Mar 2015

Ten years on from the Buncefield explosion, only small steps have been taken to establish a process…

Ineos Upstream chief executive Gary Haywood

Ineos acquires IGas shale sites

Added: 10 Mar 2015

Ineos has today announced a deal to acquire a 50% interest in seven IGas shale gas licences in the …

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…

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Prized profession

Added: 4 Mar 2015

The biggest prize you can win as an engineer is the chance to positively impact the lives of billio…

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 …

BP chemicals plant facility

Growth boost for chemicals firm

Added: 25 Feb 2015

Chemoxy, a speciality chemicals manufacturer based in Teesside, has been granted £20 million in fun…

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…

Robert Langer

Chemical engineer wins Queen's prize

Added: 3 Feb 2015

Chemical engineer and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) professor Robert Langer has today…

Biofuel processing

Biofuel processing 'improved'

Added: 27 Jan 2015

Researchers at the University of Minnesota and Rice University have developed a computational scree…

Teesside process industry cluster CCS

Teesside industrial CCS plan launched

Added: 26 Jan 2015

Firms including BOC and Amec Foster Wheeler gathered in Westminster yesterday to launch their plans…

Intertek lab

Petroleum testing lab reopens after flood

Added: 20 Jan 2015

Product testing firm Intertek has reopened its Immingham Docks Laboratory after a tidal surge and w…