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Biffa keeps an Eye on record recycling target
Added: 5 May 2021
Waste processing giant Biffa has set itself the target of quadrupling plastic recycling capacity at…
Chemicals sector finds Brexit's sunlit uplands hard to REACH
Added: 28 Apr 2021
Brexit’s sunlit uplands are proving difficult to access and, for one sector at least, the blame for…
Chemical pumping proves its worth in the wider world
Added: 28 Apr 2021
As our March/April edition went to press, the Government was releasing early details of its legisla…
Procurement, the vital link in the supply chain
Added: 21 Apr 2021
Procurement is often the weak link in the supply chain, warns Nick McGrane of K3 Syspro. It needn’t…
QMUL opens new life science innovation site
Added: 21 Apr 2021
Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) has announced the opening of its new Queen Mary Enterprise l…
Schaeffler chosen for UN’s sustainability leaders list
Added: 20 Apr 2021
The United Nations has selected the Schaeffler Group as one of its 50 global sustainability & clima…
IMechE appoints Space Agency’s Bunn as new chief executive
Added: 20 Apr 2021
UK Space Agency international director Dr Alice Bunn has been appointed as the next chief executive…
Supply chains are key to effective 4.0
Added: 19 Apr 2021
Industry 4.0 gives opportunity for large enterprises to achieve significant cost savings via effici…
Wearables bring agility to post-Covid logistics
Added: 7 Apr 2021
Logistics and supply chain managers may need to prepare for the next crisis on the horizon. Agility…
Make UK survey predicts 'superdeduction' investment boost for manufacturers
Added: 6 Apr 2021
The introduction of the 'superdeduction' tax incentive is set to provide a sharp boost to investmen…
Siemens steps up industrial network training to plug skills gap
Added: 6 Apr 2021
Siemens has boosted its professional training offering in industrial networks to combat the skills …
Pandemic fails to stop rise in UK manufacturing’s R&D spend
Added: 6 Apr 2021
Research & development spending in the UK manufacturing industry rose 4.4% rise last year despite t…
It's IPs that ensures good ideas become good business
Added: 3 Apr 2021
Engineering startups seeking to seeking to turn innovative ideas into commercial reality need to ge…
Drop in UK businesses’ patent applications in Europe, reports EPO
Added: 22 Mar 2021
Patent applications filed by UK businesses in Europe fell slightly in 2020, according to data publi…
Coventry seeks to prove where there’s muck, there’s green fuel
Added: 22 Mar 2021
Coventry University researchers are working alongside water utility Severn Trent and the Organics G…
Make UK broker service aims to ease customs headaches
Added: 22 Mar 2021
UK manufacturing firms facing complex post-Brexit customs declarations are in line to benefit from …
Listen for emission and you reap the benefits
Added: 10 Mar 2021
Acoustic emission testing detects incipient defects in pressure equipment and reduces the risk of f…
A simple answer to engineering’s talent gap?
Added: 10 Mar 2021
This week marked International Women’s Day – as good a time as any to return to the ongoing issue o…
New energy efficiency law ‘could extend product life by a decade’
Added: 10 Mar 2021
Tough new energy efficiency legislation to save on millions of tonnes of electrical waste were anno…
Digital is the future we can't ignore
Added: 24 Feb 2021
MRPeasy’s Karl Heinrich Lauri asks: Can a smaller manufacturer looking to survive and prosper in th…
