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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…
Cast Metals Federation reports positive attitude to post-pandemic era
Added: 22 Mar 2021
The UK cast metals sector’s trade body has reported a growing mood of optimism among members for th…
Listen for emission and you reap the benefits
Added: 10 Mar 2021
Acoustic emission testing detects incipient defects in pressure equipment and reduces the risk of f…
A simple answer to engineering’s talent gap?
Added: 10 Mar 2021
This week marked International Women’s Day – as good a time as any to return to the ongoing issue o…
Sulzer expertise helps bring water to Saudi's growing population
Added: 1 Mar 2021
Sulzer delivered nearly 300 pump packages for Saudi Arabia’s west coast satellite desalination proj…
Digital is the future we can't ignore
Added: 24 Feb 2021
MRPeasy’s Karl Heinrich Lauri asks: Can a smaller manufacturer looking to survive and prosper in th…
CIPD report shows encouraging rise in employer recruitment plans
Added: 23 Feb 2021
The number of employers saying they intend to boost jobs has risen for the second quarter, says the…
