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MacRobert honours groundbreaking organ technology
Added: 16 Jul 2025
An Oxford university spin-out has claimed one of British engineering’s leading awards for its techn…

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 …

UVAC warns NEETs focus could undermine industrial productivity
Added: 3 Jul 2025
Government focus on reducing the number of young people not in employment, education or training (N…

Steel industry welcome for business secretary’s commitment to sector
Added: 3 Jul 2025
Business secretary Jonathan Reynolds, has “again shown that he is on the side of British industry i…

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 …

Scientists to scale up production of factory-grade cellulose from cow dung
Added: 26 May 2025
University scientists have created a technique to turn cow dung into manufacturing grade cellulose.

Why do we measure surface energy?
Added: 22 May 2025
Wettability is a prerequisite for adhesion and bonding, so understanding surface energy is critical…

PE News in brief: trade deal, O&G study, appointments and more
Added: 19 May 2025
Process industry organisations gave a positive early response to the announcement of the UK's newly…

Survey reveals why pharma chiefs prefer US to Europe
Added: 14 May 2025
New research from Bayes Business School urges greater cooperation and better incentives from EU mem…

Dairy ‘bible’ launches new edition with eye on sustainability
Added: 14 May 2025
Tetra Pak’s latest edition of the Dairy Processing Handbook includes new chapters focussing on resp…

Blackburn opens defoamer plant to take on the world
Added: 13 May 2025
Specialty chemicals company Blackburn Chemicals Limited has opened its new £14 million defoamer fac…

Process sectors’ new jobs opportunity: acoustics
Added: 2 May 2025
Workplace safety experts are urging graduates interested in environmental issues to consider a care…

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…

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…

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…

Trump tariffs add 10% for imports from UK but avoid 20% levied on EU
Added: 3 Apr 2025
Manufacturers and government have reacted with concern to the imposition of a 10% tariff on imports…