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Survey reveals nearly half of pharma companies can’t make use of their own data
Added: 31 May 2021
Almost one in two pharmaceutical European and US companies surveyed (48%) say their competitiveness…

TÜV SÜD unveils verification service to meet post-Brexit machinery rules
Added: 19 May 2021
TÜV SÜD UK has launched an audit service to help users to verify before final purchase that newly a…

Queen Elizabeth Prize launches search for next winner of £500,000 award
Added: 19 May 2021
Applications have opened for the next a competition for one of the most presitigious and lucrative …

Deadline for NMITE engineer applicants’ chance of bursary aid
Added: 19 May 2021
Prospective engineers wanting to join this year’s New Model Institute for Technology and Engineerin…

Landia chopper pumps provide effluent solution twice over
Added: 5 May 2021
Landia’s expertise in treating effluent and waste provided answers for two food producers and their…

Technician Janet goes for gold with Invertek's two millionth VFD
Added: 5 May 2021
Variable frequency drives (VFD) manufacturer Invertek Drives has marked the production of its two m…

Queen’s award for engineering company that grew export sales five times in three years
Added: 5 May 2021
Engineering company Chelburn Precision has won the Queen’s Award for International Trade, after its…

Chemicals sector finds Brexit's sunlit uplands hard to REACH
Added: 28 Apr 2021
Brexit’s sunlit uplands are proving difficult to access and, for one sector at least, the blame for…

Why it pays to take your tools to the repair shop
Added: 21 Apr 2021
Updating or repairing an injection mould tool can be complex yet helps extend lifespan and quality …

Procurement, the vital link in the supply chain
Added: 21 Apr 2021
Procurement is often the weak link in the supply chain, warns Nick McGrane of K3 Syspro. It needn’t…

QMUL opens new life science innovation site
Added: 21 Apr 2021
Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) has announced the opening of its new Queen Mary Enterprise l…

IMechE appoints Space Agency’s Bunn as new chief executive
Added: 20 Apr 2021
UK Space Agency international director Dr Alice Bunn has been appointed as the next chief executive…

Schaeffler chosen for UN’s sustainability leaders list
Added: 20 Apr 2021
The United Nations has selected the Schaeffler Group as one of its 50 global sustainability & clima…

Lockdown period sees record rises in component replacements
Added: 7 Apr 2021
Pandemic lockdown has produced an unprecedented demand for improvements to components and replaceme…

Make UK survey predicts 'superdeduction' investment boost for manufacturers
Added: 6 Apr 2021
The introduction of the 'superdeduction' tax incentive is set to provide a sharp boost to investmen…

Siemens steps up industrial network training to plug skills gap
Added: 6 Apr 2021
Siemens has boosted its professional training offering in industrial networks to combat the skills …

Pandemic fails to stop rise in UK manufacturing’s R&D spend
Added: 6 Apr 2021
Research & development spending in the UK manufacturing industry rose 4.4% rise last year despite t…

It's IPs that ensures good ideas become good business
Added: 3 Apr 2021
Engineering startups seeking to seeking to turn innovative ideas into commercial reality need to ge…

Drop in UK businesses’ patent applications in Europe, reports EPO
Added: 22 Mar 2021
Patent applications filed by UK businesses in Europe fell slightly in 2020, according to data publi…

Coventry seeks to prove where there’s muck, there’s green fuel
Added: 22 Mar 2021
Coventry University researchers are working alongside water utility Severn Trent and the Organics G…