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Innovators saluted at 2025 IET Achievement Awards

Added: 24 Oct 2025

Pioneers in photovoltaics, physical computing, quantum and wearable tech dominated this year’s Inst…

Beyond predictive maintenance: unlocking AI value

Added: 17 Oct 2025

Process industry consideration of AI’s potential tends to focus on predictive maintenance but often…

From Paper to Predictive: overcoming cultural barriers in process industry digitalisation

Added: 24 Sep 2025

The technology’s already here, the legislative framework is encouraging process firms to endorse di…

Seven decades of sustainable success

Added: 8 Sep 2025

Endress+Hauser has always prided themselves on supporting their customers with their ‘first serve, …

Engineering bodies highlight STEM gender gaps as exam results revealed

Added: 21 Aug 2025

Engineering leaders have welcomed signs of progress in science and technology uptake among students…

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How AI can transform legacy oil and gas operations

Added: 3 Aug 2025

The oil and gas sector is undergoing seismic change. As part of the broader transition toward susta…

Unravelling those digital buzzwords for the food sector

Added: 16 Jul 2025

Artificial Intelligence has become a buzzword but is often misunderstood and misrepresented in its …

BP chemicals plant facility

Plaudits for industrial strategy marred by disappointment over chemicals ‘exclusion’

Added: 3 Jul 2025

Chemical Business Association CEO Tim Doggett has expressed “deep disappointment” over the absenceo…

Wasteful packaging – industry’s Achilles heel

Added: 3 Jun 2025

To mark the recent World Environment Day, ABB’s Stefan Floeck called for less headline grabbing and…

Ofwat winners share £42 million for innovative projects

Added: 27 May 2025

Sixteen technology pioneers will share Ofwat funding of £42 million to aid development of their inn…

Liverpool AM startup secures £0.7 million-plus in a year

Added: 26 May 2025

Liverpool-based advanced manufacturing startup Atomik-AM has secured financial aid of £0.6 million …

Academics’ toolkit offers digital steer for SMEs 

Added: 2 May 2025

University of East Anglia academics have developed a government-funded toolkit for SME manufacturer…

Process sectors’ new jobs opportunity: acoustics

Added: 2 May 2025

Workplace safety experts are urging graduates interested in environmental issues to consider a care…

Milk production factory

Pharma sector suffers longest downtime disruptions says report

Added: 2 May 2025

UK and European pharmaceutical firms suffer the longest downtime disruptions of any industrial sect…

National Physical Laboratory

Deadline for £50k science and engineering scholarship extended to 10 May

Added: 10 Apr 2025

The deadline to apply for a new £50k scholarship administered by the National Physical Laboratory h…

Europe accused of trailing Middle East on sustainable plastics policy

Added: 10 Apr 2025

The European Union is “stuck in the past” in its attitude to so-called oxo-biodegradable plastics, …

ADE warns against two tier approach to net zero

Added: 10 Apr 2025

Factories and business that lie outside government-supported industry clusters are being overlooked…

Entrepreneur Jackson is new Digital Catapult chair

Added: 10 Apr 2025

Entrepreneur and academic professor Keith Jackson is the new chair of deep tech accelerator Digital…

Endress+Hauser level and pressure centre chief killed in car crash

Added: 31 Mar 2025

Endress+Hauser Level+Pressure centre managing director Dr Dirk Mörmann has been killed in a car acc…

AI pioneer spin-out Polaron wins inaugural £1 million Manchester Prize

Added: 24 Mar 2025

The first ever award of the new £1 million Manchester Prize for UK-led AI breakthroughs has gone to…