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Schaeffler purchase heralds drive for growth in linear tech
Added: 10 Aug 2022
Schaeffler has signed an agreement to acquire global manufacturer and supplier of linear technology…

Businesses urged to enter Innovate UK competition as deadline looms
Added: 10 Aug 2022
Process companies are being invited to take part in an Innovate UK programme designed to boost comp…

Award-winning NMITE chief to quit next month
Added: 10 Aug 2022
The high-profile president and chief executive of NMITE, the New Model Institute for Technology and…

Antipodean collaboration to kick cybercrime off shop floor
Added: 26 Jul 2022
Technology and manufacturing innovators from the UK and Australia are creating a map of security ri…

Made Smarter highlights need for manufacturers’ digital drive
Added: 26 Jul 2022
The organisation set up to boost manufacturers’ take up of digital tools is urging small to medium …

Aniline breakthrough promises cleaner, greener production
Added: 24 Jul 2022
A ‘cleaner, greener’ method of producing anilines – frequently used in the production of manufactur…

Automation enables firm to drive contract storage ambitions
Added: 13 Jul 2022
Britain’s largest bottling and storage independent wanted to ramp up its customer supply. Automatio…

UK launches first centre to boost critical materials supply chains
Added: 10 Jul 2022
Britain’s inaugural data centre for critical material supply has been launched at the British Geolo…

Search on for successor as IET interim president takes over
Added: 10 Jul 2022
Interim Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) chief executive and secretary Ed Almond has…

Rolls-Royce unveils nuclear SMR site shortlist
Added: 10 Jul 2022
Six areas in the north of England, East Midlands and Wales are in the running to house Roll-Royce’s…
Senseye acquisition boosts Siemens’ predictive presence
Added: 28 Jun 2022
Southampton-based AI solutions provider Senseye has been bought by Siemens, in a move that will fur…

Carlsberg seals deal for consumer test of PEF bottles
Added: 28 Jun 2022
Brewing giant Carlsberg has signed a deal with a renewable chemistry company to trial the use of PE…

COP president Sharma hails Africa cold chain initiative
Added: 26 Jun 2022
Cabinet minister and COP26 president Alok Sharma has voiced his support for a UK-backed African ini…

Digital Process Manufacturing Centre targets Scotland process leaders
Added: 13 Jun 2022
The National Manufacturing Institute Scotland (NMIS) Group, will open a new technology centre in Ay…

Talking factory sense in every language
Added: 1 Jun 2022
Language barriers provide obstacles to safety and efficiency in the industrial workplace but techno…

Appointments: New IMechE president and key roles at Schneider, BCAS, Ashtead and ABB
Added: 31 May 2022
Phil Peel has been elected as 137th President of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers as it cele…

New visa rules ‘create door to global manufacturing talent’ claim
Added: 31 May 2022
Two newly introduced work permit routes could help allow employees of overseas businesses to work i…

JM pairs up for green hydrogen ambitions
Added: 29 May 2022
Johnson Matthey is to partner Enapter, a pioneer and commercial leader in electrolyser technology t…

Energy bosses expect more cyber-attacks but slow to act, warns report
Added: 20 May 2022
More than four-fifths of global professionals working in the power, renewables and oil and gas sect…

Stark Make UK/Infor supply chain survey suggests globalisation has peaked
Added: 17 May 2022
Two years of disruption to global supply chains has transformed the nature of UK manufacturing, sug…