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Sewer plant

Tackling water I&I with 'hifi' data

Added: 10 Mar 2026

Following publication of the Environment Agency’s stringent new requirements for reporting on sewer…

Assessing options for electrifying industrial heating

Added: 10 Mar 2026

Industrial heat demand amounts to more than 20 per cent of global energy consumption, therfore deca…

Investment gives 10 times boost to Grangemouth biorefinery production

Added: 10 Mar 2026

Scottish firm Celtic Renewables has won £16.23 million in public and private funding to scale its p…

uk steel edf energy

UK Steel backs select committee’s decarbonisation criticisms

Added: 10 Mar 2026

UK climate ambitions cannot be met unless energy intensive industries are able to remain competitiv…

Lift off for space careers as UKSA launches 50-placement scheme

Added: 23 Feb 2026

Fifty placements in the UK space sector are up for grabs as a new internship programme opened for a…

Cross-border project aims to boost Irish SME digitalisation

Added: 23 Feb 2026

An Ireland-wide initiative has been launched to speed digitalisation north and south of the border.

What rising raw material prices mean for electronics

Added: 23 Feb 2026

Upstream volatility impacts design and procurement teams warns Chris Withers, who explains how engi…

Coventry scores a double at manufacturer awards

Added: 23 Feb 2026

Coventry’s Evtec Automotive scored double gold at Make UK’s Manufacturing Awards ceremony with wins…

The five 2026 trends impacting CNC machining

Added: 23 Feb 2026

Data, automation, and hybrid technologies are reshaping precision manufacturing, says Dominique Gal…

Apprentices

Apprenticeships plunge as levy pot swells says Make UK

Added: 11 Feb 2026

Apprenticeship starts in the manufacturing and engineering sectors have plunged 40% over the last n…

Siemens factory

PMI figures show fourth month of increase for manufacturers

Added: 11 Feb 2026

UK industry performed strongly at the start of the year with the latest CIPS manufacturing purchasi…

Digital Catapult takes a deeper dive in the South West with new office

Added: 11 Feb 2026

Deep tech innovation body Digital Catapult has opened a new west of England office located at Brist…

Cyberhawk drone2

NMITE advances into drone tech with Army’s aid

Added: 27 Jan 2026

The New Model Institute for Technology and Engineering (NMITE) is inviting applications for its rec…

CBA chief: chemical industry ‘openly questioning’ Government commitment

Added: 27 Jan 2026

Chemicals firms are “openly questioning” whether the Government is capable of creating the conditio…

Water Discovery Challenge II braces for flood of entries

Added: 27 Jan 2026

Entry is open for the second Water Discovery Challenge and the opportunity to share in up to £7.5 m…

Partners’ pioneering PPE materials use waste to tackle waste

Added: 12 Jan 2026

A university famed for its expertise in polymer chemistry has teamed up with a midlands-based firm …

Process news in brief: Apprenticeships, contracts, awards, appointments

Added: 12 Jan 2026

The Manufacturing Technology Centre (MTC) has appointed new non-executive board members from Whiteh…

Uncertainty hints at a surer path to clean fusion energy

Added: 8 Jan 2026

UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) is working with a pioneering AI company in an effort to reduce t…

Process news in brief: appointments, acquisitions, partnerships, expansions

Added: 5 Jan 2026

CEO of INEOS Olefins & Polymers Europe Rob Ingram is the new president of Plastics Europe, the pan-…

Why traditional cyber defences are no longer enough

Added: 17 Dec 2025

Evolving attack techniques are exposing the limits of legacy security tools in engineering and manu…