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Drax Power Plant

Drax go-ahead puts Government and Planning Inspectorate at odds

Added: 9 Oct 2019

The Government has announced that it has approved the installation of four new gas fired turbines f…

adi shapes future engineering careers with its fourth intake of pre-apprentices

Added: 8 Oct 2019

Birmingham-based engineering firm adi Group has welcomed a fourth intake to its pioneering pre-appr…

Deadline looms for top engineering women’s award nominations  

Added: 2 Oct 2019

With just days to go before the nominations close, the annual FDM everywoman in Technology Awards a…

Fuchs aims for lubricants top spot with giant new automated site

Added: 2 Oct 2019

Fuchs Lubricants has begun work on a £5 million fully-automated raw materials warehouse with 4,000 …

Engineers who work remotely ‘earn nearly 50% more’ claim

Added: 2 Oct 2019

Remote working may not only become increasingly common for engineers but potentially more lucrative…

ProGlove investment cites UK as Europe’s biggest growth market

Added: 24 Sep 2019

Industrial wearables giant ProGlove has identified the UK as the key growth market for its European…

Royal stamp of approval for Tomlinson Hall's century

Added: 24 Sep 2019

Pump distributor and manufacturer Tomlinson Hall celebrated its centenary in business with a visit …

Assystem joins Northern Powerhouse Partner Programme

Added: 24 Sep 2019

Assystem, the world’s third largest nuclear engineering firm, has become an official partner in the…

IT/OT convergence: greater accuracy, agile responses and happy stakeholders

Added: 18 Sep 2019

Novotek’s George Walker explains how, as with smartphones, modern industrial firms’ IT and OT opera…

Siemens puts its money where its mouth is with Digital Academy pilot launch

Added: 17 Sep 2019

Six undergraduates have won £3,000 annual sponsorship and the chance of a three months paid placeme…

Process innovators win Queen’s Awards for breakthroughs and exports

Added: 17 Sep 2019

Three process industry firms are celebrating this week being among 200 companies to receive a Queen…

Nuclear engineers

Engineering salaries show rise despite business uncertainty

Added: 17 Sep 2019

Engineering pay increased year on year for August, with salaries for new roles in the industry up 1…

Michele Windsor on the overlooked element for effective industrial logistics

Added: 11 Sep 2019

While we know reliable power is essential for effective logistics, we tend to ignore the role of ba…

Ion Science stays on target to achieve £20 million turnover in anniversary year

Added: 10 Sep 2019

The world’s largest manufacturer of volatile organic compounds (VOC) monitors, Cambridge-based Ion …

Schaeffler supplies its largest-ever spherical plain bearing

Added: 10 Sep 2019

Schaeffler has produced the largest spherical plain bearing in the company’s history  – a monster w…

Pounds sterling

Financial jargon a ‘brake on manufacturing growth’

Added: 10 Sep 2019

Small to medium sized manufacturing enterprises are missing out on access to better finance because…

'Interesting times' beckon for pharma and biotech

Added: 4 Sep 2019

The scale of pharmaceutical counterfeiting can be staggering to behold – whether in terms of the nu…

Patent sense for pumps and pharmaceuticals

Added: 4 Sep 2019

The area where pumps intersects with pharma and biotech is thriving and growing. Patent application…

Company claims another first for automated gas filling plants

Added: 3 Sep 2019

The company that created the first full automated gas filling plant has launched a rival site now b…

Emerson maintenance reliability management consulting

Manufacturing unprepared for supply chain legal changes, warns consultancy

Added: 2 Sep 2019

Nearly two thirds of engineering, manufacturing and tech business responding to a survey say they a…