All Industry 4.0

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 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…

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…

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…

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…