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Ten ways to work smarter and increase output
Added: 6 Mar 2019
Improving efficiency and optimising performance is a constant concern for the process industries. W…
UK manufacturing celebrates engineering apprentices as NAO releases damning Levy report
Added: 6 Mar 2019
As manufacturing firms and trainers are marking National Apprenticeship Week by celebrating the UK'…
Let's make apprenticeships work for everyone
Added: 4 Mar 2019
It's National Apprenticeship Week from today until 8 March – EU Automation’s Jonathan Wilkins highl…
Yorkshire Water puts its toe in the water for transparency
Added: 4 Mar 2019
Utility company Yorkshire Water has released details of its ethnic pay gap and vowed to publish mos…
INEOS announces £1 billion investment in UK oil and petrochemicals
Added: 27 Feb 2019
INEOS has announced a slew of investments in the British process industries totalling more than £1 …
Funders seek Brexit opportunity from process industries
Added: 26 Feb 2019
A leading SME finance platform claims that UK energy companies are likely to benefit from a growth …
Scottish lifesciences secure record equity
Added: 26 Feb 2019
Scotland’s life sciences companies raised £85 million of equity investment during the last 12 month…
Pump Industry Awards 2019 – pick your winner
Added: 20 Feb 2019
With a total of 37 finalists included in the shortlist of Pump Industry Awards entries for the seve…
EEF changes name to Make UK then delivers a Brexit broadside
Added: 20 Feb 2019
Manufacturers’ association the EEF announced a historic change of name – rebranding itself Make UK …
Royal Academy of Engineering trustees nominate McDonald for first Scottish president
Added: 18 Feb 2019
University of Strathclyde principal and vice-chancellor professor Jim McDonald has been nominated f…
If you want to get ahead, be a chemical engineer…
Added: 15 Feb 2019
Chemical engineering provides a significant boost to social mobility, according to a survey of youn…
Ensuring your diesel-fuelled generators are compliant
Added: 13 Feb 2019
Emissions legislation doesn’t spell the end of the diesel-fuelled generator, says Jason Harryman of…
Swansea to lead multimillion steel research initiative
Added: 12 Feb 2019
Wales is to host a £35 million new initiative between research bodies, universities and business to…
Parliamentary water group chair calls for end to five-year focus
Added: 12 Feb 2019
The chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Water Group has criticised the focus on five-year plans, s…
Pump choice enables a tougher approach to waste processing
Added: 11 Feb 2019
When recycling rules got more demanding, one waste management firm decided on a tougher approach to…
Minister hails Drax carbon capture breakthrough
Added: 11 Feb 2019
Energy minister Claire Perry said the new Drax Power station’s pilot bioenergy carbon capture and s…
Landmark BPMA agreement with Lancaster University
Added: 7 Feb 2019
British Pump Manufacturers Association (BPMA) representatives have signed a co-operation agreement …
Chester to offer UK’s first IChemE-accredited degree apprenticeship
Added: 1 Feb 2019
The University of Chester’s Faculty of Science and Engineering and major employers in the region ha…
Manufacturing confidence dip blamed on Brexit stockpiling
Added: 1 Feb 2019
Pre-Brexit stockpiling has been blamed for a rapid fall in export prospects and a contraction in Br…
Report warns of ‘scant progress’ in UK engineering education after five years
Added: 31 Jan 2019
The author of the first Government-commissioned review into engineering education has warned that “…
