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There's no short cuts to boosting female recruits in the manufacturing supply chain
Added: 18 Mar 2020
The lack of female recruits into the manufacturing supply chain is a brake on talent and needs urge…

EPO reveals ‘significant’ growth for UK patent applications in Europe
Added: 17 Mar 2020
The volume of patent applications filed by UK businesses in Europe has risen ‘significantly’ for th…

Sleaford recognised for commitment to food innovation
Added: 17 Mar 2020
Multiple packaged foods supplier Sleaford Quality Foods (SQF), is celebrating after after winning t…

Just a quarter of young people know nuclear is low carbon source
Added: 9 Mar 2020
Barely one in four people aged 18-24 surveyed realise nuclear power is a low carbon source of elect…

Pressure grows for Budget boost to manufacturing
Added: 9 Mar 2020
As the Chancellor prepared the first Budget of Boris Johnson’s administration, manufacturing leader…

Severn Trent and partner get £1 mill innovation grant to treat wastewater
Added: 3 Mar 2020
Clean tech company CCm Technologies has been awarded approximately £1 million in government funding…

VSDs to lose exemption from tough new Euro motor efficiency rules
Added: 3 Mar 2020
Variable speed drives will be included for the first time in stringent new rules for electric motor…

Expert warns coronavirus impact will heighten need for Industry 4.0 solutions
Added: 3 Mar 2020
The economic disruption caused by global disasters such as the coronavirus outbreak would be tackle…

Nature offers key to producing sustainable chemicals
Added: 25 Feb 2020
Industrial products that currently depend for their creation on chemicals from hydrogen and fossil …

Bilfinger awarded multi-million Hinkley Point C contract
Added: 25 Feb 2020
Hinkley Point C owner EDF has awarded Bilfinger a £58 million contract from for the execution desig…

'Engineers fear skills shortages but ignore tax relief that would help'
Added: 25 Feb 2020
Over a third of UK engineers surveyed worry about skills shortages but more than a fifth of their c…

Scotland’s life sciences sector on track to exceed £8 billion target by 2025
Added: 25 Feb 2020
New figures published today by the Scottish Government show company employment in Scotland’s life s…

Scaling up efficiency and sustainability with AkzoNobel
Added: 18 Feb 2020
Siemens has helped ensure the entire manufacturing process at paint giant AkzoNobel’s state-of-the-…

A new era beckons for the food and drink sector
Added: 14 Feb 2020
A recent article in the press drew a comparison between the modern fast food sector and the clothin…
Engineering manages year on year salary growth despite Brexit jitters
Added: 14 Feb 2020
Salary levels across the engineering sector continued to grow last year, with 2.1 per cent average …

Poo to food breakthrough could boost farm to fork security
Added: 14 Feb 2020
Phosphate vital for agricultural fertiliser could be produced on an industrial scale from sewage sl…

Materials apprenticeship degree finally makes the grade
Added: 14 Feb 2020
The long-awaited new degree apprenticeship for trainees in materials science across the UK has rece…

Small process innovations can create great advances
Added: 14 Feb 2020
In this age of disruption, there’s a tendency to regard innovation in terms of monumental, eye-catc…

Steel industry decarbonisation project secures £1.26 million
Added: 14 Feb 2020
The UK Research and Innovation-funded Centre for Research into Energy Demand Solutions (CREDS), has…

Electrification is spreading and that will increase the focus on power quality
Added: 12 Feb 2020
Electrical engineers can expect substantial challenges in the years ahead, warns REO UK’s Steve Hug…