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EDF apprentice trainee skills2

Review calls for young engineers

Added: 4 Nov 2013

The Perkins Review will highlight the need to attract more young people to careers within the engin…

The Cambridge MBA offers scholarship for process engineers

Added: 14 Oct 2013

Watch this interview with past LyondellBasell Cambridge MBA Scholarship recipient, now part of a le…

Portable GC-MS

Portable GC-MS for onsite “lab analysis”

Added: 2 Oct 2013

Quantitech has launched a unique portable gas chromatograph toroidal ion trap mass spectrometer (GC…

David Willetts

£400m for science and engineering studies

Added: 30 Sep 2013

Today the government announced a £400 million investment to boost science and engineering study in …

Chocolate manufacturing plant

Manufacturing orders hit new high

Added: 19 Sep 2013

UK manufacturing order levels are now at their highest level since the financial crisis, according …

Biomass

Biofuels firm hiring for industrial upscale

Added: 19 Sep 2013

French biofuels company Global Bioenergies today announced its latest management hire as it begins …

Lab to manufacturing research scheme

Move to boost lab and manufacturing links

Added: 19 Sep 2013

The Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) has announced a fellowship scheme to s…

Bionic handling assistant

Brave new world: Industry 4.0 technology

Added: 17 Sep 2013

Wireless devices are common in all workplaces these days, including process plants. But what would …

Invensys Wonderware screengrab

Wonderware backed in merger clash

Added: 13 Sep 2013

A top Invensys executive has sung the praises of the firm’s Wonderware software ahead of its potent…

Invensys Foxboro Evo DCS

Invensys launches new Foxboro DCS

Added: 11 Sep 2013

Invensys yesterday launched the latest version of its Foxboro distributed control system (DCS), cal…

EDF apprentice trainee skills2

£2m investment for engineering talent

Added: 10 Sep 2013

The Institution of Engineering and Technology today announced a £2 million scholarship investment f…

Honeywell advanced virtualisation

Advanced virtualisation

Added: 4 Sep 2013

Recently, Honeywell has introduced a premium platform for Experion virtualisation solutions.

Ronnie Leten 2

Atlas Copco to buy Edwards for £1bn

Added: 19 Aug 2013

Sweden’s Atlas Copco this morning announced it had agreed a deal to acquire UK vacuum pump manufact…

Wireless communication

Wireless devices communicate without batteries

Added: 14 Aug 2013

Engineers from the University of Washington have designed a wireless communication system that allo…

Cell adhesion

Biofactories of the future

Added: 7 Aug 2013

Scaling-up synthetic biology from the lab bench to the process plant presents both challenges and o…

Cultured beef

Scientists unveil first lab-grown burger

Added: 5 Aug 2013

Dutch food scientists cooked and ate the first ever lab-grown burger on Monday afternoon.

Invensys control room

Threat to Schneider's Invensys takeover

Added: 2 Aug 2013

Schneider’s proposed £3.4 billion takeover of Invensys is still under threat of being beaten by a b…

Bara PPMA Robot2

Process automation market to hit $124bn

Added: 1 Aug 2013

Revenues in the global process automation market are expected to grow at a rate of over 6% per year…

Schneider CEO Jean-Pascal Tricoire 2

Schneider acquires Invensys for £3.4bn

Added: 31 Jul 2013

UK-based Invensys today accepted an offer from France’s Schneider Electric to acquire the company f…

Siemens CEO Joe Kaeser

Siemens names Kaeser as new CEO

Added: 31 Jul 2013

Siemens today replaced CEO Peter Loescher with the company’s chief financial officer Joe Kaeser.