All Pharma & Bio
Integration or bust
Added: 3 Sep 2014
The UK’s chemical industry may be sleepwalking into further decline due to the lack of industry lea…
Energy efficiency spend to rise, says Siemens
Added: 3 Sep 2014
More than two thirds of UK manufacturers are planning to increase investment in energy management o…
Increased production squeezes innovation
Added: 4 Aug 2014
Manufacturers’ spending on innovation is slowing as firms attempt to manage rising output levels, a…
Just 6% of engineers are women
Added: 31 Jul 2014
On average just 6% of engineers in the UK are female, with the highest proportions occuring in the …
Innovation spend hits 25-year high
Added: 23 Jul 2014
The number of manufacturers planning to invest in product and process innovation is at its highest …
Pharma firms to offer up compounds
Added: 23 Jul 2014
Seven pharmaceuticals companies are offering up their deprioritised compounds to UK researchers.
Foreign investment up in process sectors
Added: 21 Jul 2014
Nearly a fifth of all foreign investment in the UK is going to projects in the process sectors, acc…
Process champions moved in reshuffle
Added: 15 Jul 2014
Two key allies of the process industries were today removed from their posts by Prime Minister Davi…
Diverting disaster
Added: 10 Jul 2014
In the wake of an industrial disaster, updating plant safety technology is often the first port of …
Pharma leads manufacturing fall
Added: 9 Jul 2014
UK manufacturing has suffered biggest fall in output since January 2013, with pharmaceuticals among…
Sector growth drives pump uptake
Added: 2 Jul 2014
The food & beverage and pharmaceutical sectors are helping sustain the positive displacement pump m…
Energy failures threaten firms
Added: 10 Jun 2014
Certification body says organisations are exposed to financial risk if they fail to improve energy …
Pfizer ends pursuit of AstraZeneca
Added: 20 May 2014
US Pharmaceuticals firm Pfizer has had its final proposal to acquire AstraZeneca rejected by the co…
Scale of gender pay gap revealed
Added: 14 May 2014
Women in engineering sectors typically earn 25% less than men by the age of 40, a new survey has fo…
Plastics and food drive production growth
Added: 9 May 2014
Manufacturing was the strongest area of UK production growth, with process industries such as plast…
Chancellor launches spending consultation
Added: 28 Apr 2014
Chancellor unveils plans to boost science, research and innovation expenditure in the UK.
Welcome tonic
Added: 23 Apr 2014
A series of recent investment announcements has shown pharmaceuticals to be one of the key growth s…
Happily ever after?
Added: 8 Apr 2014
Today marks the end of support for Microsoft’s Windows XP operating system - but what effect will i…
A dose of growth
Added: 2 Apr 2014
After decades of focussing on research & development in pursuit of the next blockbuster drug, big p…
GSK employs F1 data analysis
Added: 27 Mar 2014
Pharmaceuticals firm GlaxoSmithKline is employing Formula 1 style data analysis to improve its drug…
