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Entries invited for new look Chemical Industry Awards

Added: 29 Jan 2025

Submissions have opened for this year’s Chemical Industry Awards, with opportunities for inclusion …

Jungheinrich wins EcoVadis Platinum sustainability award for fourth year

Added: 29 Jan 2025

Corporate social responsibility rating agency EcoVadis has awarded its Platinum sustainability cert…

Water

Ofwat banks on innovation by doubling innovation fund to £0.4 billion

Added: 28 Jan 2025

Ofwat Innovation Fund will double to £0.4 billion to boost support to projects that transform the w…

Electrification: a powerful path to decarbonising cement production

Added: 27 Jan 2025

Coolbrook CEO Joonas Rauramo explains how even the most carbon-intensive of process sectors can cut…

Defence investment provides ‘milestone’ grant for materials casting project

Added: 14 Jan 2025

Wall Colmonoy has successfully bid for funding from the Defence Technology Exploitation Programme (…

Supply chain offers challenge to UK energy transition, says report 

Added: 14 Jan 2025

Supply chain difficulties remain the main risk to the UK’s energy transition plans, with lack of in…

TV food scientist reinforces call for better UPF regulation ahead of annual lecture series

Added: 20 Dec 2024

Warning labels and “carefully considered taxes” would provide a start on the improved regulation of…

Materials science apprenticeship degree wins funding go ahead

Added: 4 Dec 2024

The University of Birmingham and MTC Training’s new degree apprenticeship in manufacturing engineer…

Kenya initiative paves the way for a more secure process cold chain

Added: 4 Dec 2024

More than 130 Kenyan farmers have signed up for a new scheme set up with help from the University o…

Lead, don’t follow in the robotics revolution

Added: 3 Dec 2024

From the laboratory to the factory floor, it is possible for the UK to lead in the use of autonomou…

AI’s got your back

Added: 21 Nov 2024

Artificial intelligence isn’t after your job, only the mundane and time- consuming element you’d be…

Covid’s long tail costing UK productivity billions, claims research

Added: 13 Nov 2024

The effects of ‘long Covid’ may be costing the UK economy billions of pounds as continued illness a…

Lucideon hails AMRICC hydrogen firing breakthrough

Added: 13 Nov 2024

Advanced ceramics research organisation Lucideon says it has achieved the first 100% hydrogen firin…

Shining light on the vital global role performed by pumps

Added: 13 Nov 2024

In the drive to ensure energy efficiency and sustainability in industry and beyond, says Luboš Mich…

RVRC seeks to shift net zero focus to industry emissions

Added: 13 Nov 2024

A new initiative sited at the National Manufacturing Institute Scotland (NMIS) plans to focus indus…

2024 Pump Industry Awards nominations deadline looms

Added: 12 Nov 2024

The British Pump Manufacturers Association is urging members not to miss the nominations process fo…

Industrial strategy will boost UK reshoring, say Make UK/RSM survey responders

Added: 23 Oct 2024

Announcement of the Government’s long-term industrial strategy will revive the country’s offshore m…

QUB secures £6.5 million for supply chain initiative

Added: 23 Oct 2024

Queen's University Belfast has secured £6.25 million funding from UK Research and Innovation, to mo…

Apprentice

UVAC claims funding plans for apprenticeships are ‘major blow’ to engineering

Added: 23 Oct 2024

Plans  to restrict levy funding of level 7 apprenticeships will widen the skills gap, hinder the ec…

News roundup: Industrial strategy, women engineers, RoSPA awards

Added: 16 Oct 2024

CEO of Make UK Stephen Phipson has given an emphatic welcome to the Government’s new industrial str…