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Harnessing AR and VR is key for training the UK’s millennial workforce

Added: 16 Jan 2019

Our workforce is increasingly tech savvy so it makes sense, says Honeywell’s Sudhir Kamath, to inco…

Deadline approaches for MacRobert Award for engineering innovation

Added: 16 Jan 2019

Entrants have until the end of this month to apply for one of British engineering’s most prestigiou…

Pumps to sustain a business and the environment

Added: 16 Jan 2019

On a remote farm, sustainability is a business as well as an environmental choice and it has to wor…

Brexit, cyber and skills – the stuff of UK manufacturers’ nightmares

Added: 15 Jan 2019

Cyber threats and Brexit concerns top the list of industrial risks cited by UK process firms in the…

Organisations combine to lead on composites design

Added: 15 Jan 2019

Two of the leading organisations behind the development of engineering innovation and high quality …

Food sector will have a substantial diet of change to digest

Added: 14 Jan 2019

If every process firm in the UK food and drink sector qualified as a so-called ‘top quartile perfor…

Avoid generator fuel tank contamination and unnecessary downtime

Added: 14 Jan 2019

The introduction of bio-content in fuel creates potential for generator contamination issues. Steve…

The year ahead – five tech trends that will define manufacturing in 2019

Added: 10 Jan 2019

It is perhaps an understatement to suggest that 2018 has been marred by uncertainty – from the ling…

Predict and solve bulk materials handling problems with the Wolfson Centre

Added: 8 Jan 2019

The Wolfson Centre for Bulk Solids Handling Technology, based at the University of Greenwich, has r…

North East companies pump up training provision

Added: 8 Jan 2019

Pumps companies in the north east have joined forces to help improve facilities at one of the secto…

The food waste menace in our factories… human beings

Added: 7 Jan 2019

The second biggest cause of food loss in manufacturing has been revealed in a new study to be human…

Top engineering figures honoured for their contribution

Added: 3 Jan 2019

Leading figures in the process engineering sector are among those who received New Year honours for…

At its facility in Glasgow, Sartorius Stedim Biotech now offers a complete range of chemistry testing services.

Chemical engineering pay dips but gender gap closes among young

Added: 20 Dec 2018

Chemical engineering salaries dropped slightly over the last year in Britain but there are signs th…

Alderley's £10 mill development to address UK's lab space shortage

Added: 17 Dec 2018

The UK’s largest single site bioscience campus, Alderley Park, is to be expanded by 50,000 sq ft af…

Cooperation and engagement promote ongoing safety improvements for Dow

Added: 17 Dec 2018

Covering some 550 hectares, Stade is Dow Chemical Company’s largest German production site. Every y…

How an industrial setback produced a heat transfer solution

Added: 10 Dec 2018

An industrial accident caused serious damage to a plant but opened the way for a redesign of proces…

London domination of STEM jobs ‘could threaten regions’ ability to benefit from tech growth’

Added: 10 Dec 2018

Nine of the 10 fastest growing occupations in the UK during the period to 2024 will be tech jobs, s…

Wood wins Dungeness A contract

Added: 10 Dec 2018

Leading engineering and project consultancy Wood group has been awarded the contract to remove radi…

AR and VR are the key to 21st century process training

Added: 6 Dec 2018

Our workforce is increasingly tech savvy so it makes sense, says Honeywell’s Sudhir Kamath, to inco…

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Anglian trounces Google, Apple and Ikea as best firm to work for

Added: 5 Dec 2018

It's official: the best large firm to work for in Britain in 2019 is a process industry company.