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Government award to power up industry’s cutting edge computing

Added: 16 Apr 2024

The Centre for Modelling and Simulation (CFMS) has been awarded £2.4 million of funding from the De…

Fast reactor application makes nuclear and legal history

Added: 16 Apr 2024

Legal history has been made with the first ever attempt to use a legislative procedure specifically…

Global RoSPA win for factory that took workplace safety into the community

Added: 16 Apr 2024

An Indian factory run by an international cosmetics brand has won the Royal Society for the Prevent…

Finding answers for those energy saving questions

Added: 12 Apr 2024

Just when you thought pressures could not get any greater, in comes another top-down mandate to red…

Patents pending

Added: 28 Mar 2024

Exciting advances in agritech will impact the food and drink sector. They also open up new regulato…

News Analysis: Pinch points

Added: 28 Mar 2024

In today’s joined-up world, far-away conflicts impact business at home. As with critical industries…

UK tops peers in EPO patent applications

Added: 25 Mar 2024

UK innovators their increased year on year European patent applications by a larger percentage than…

Climate, skills and environment top another successful PIA Awards

Added: 25 Mar 2024

Global climate change, the skills gap and environmental regeneration all featured among this year’s…

Plastic recycling

Europe on course to circular source plastics goals

Added: 25 Mar 2024

Europe is almost half way towards its goal of using a quarter of its plastics from circular sources…

Viewpoint: Working safely with heat transfer fluids in plastics manufacture

Added: 13 Mar 2024

Plastics and polymers are vital materials in manufacturing. Global Heat Transfer’s Clive Jones expl…

Cheese

Pioneering UV pasteurisation aims to cut cost with greener approach

Added: 12 Mar 2024

Dairy pasteurisation has traditionally been a costly business for manufacturers, involving intricat…

A positive charge

Added: 27 Feb 2024

Although seen as a negative if essential investment, is it time to view cyber protection as a busin…

Not tomorrow but now

Added: 27 Feb 2024

Though much talk about AI is in the future tense, it is already embedded in many areas, including i…

AMRICC opening cements Staffs role as UK materials science centre

Added: 26 Feb 2024

Staffordshire has sealed its centuries-old reputation as the UK’s ceramics capital with the officia…

BP chemicals plant facility

Chemicals and renewables’ lack of appeal leaves recruitment headache

Added: 26 Feb 2024

The renewables and chemicals sectors could be short of thousands of the skilled workers they need u…

2024 Pump Industry Awards Finalists Revealed

Added: 26 Feb 2024

Fifty finalists across eight categories are squaring up for the hotly contested honours at the 2024…

Tomorrow’s big process ideas start in the lab…

Added: 29 Jan 2024

Many of the biggest technological advances in the process industries begin with R&D in the lab. Fin…

Sensor offers new hope to counter ‘forever chemicals’ contamination

Added: 24 Jan 2024

New methods to combat the prevalence of per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) could provide a v…

Made Smarter 4.0 adoption is vital ingredient for manufacturing investment

Added: 24 Jan 2024

Industrial mentoring organisation Made Smarter reports that small to medium sized manufacturers (SM…

Days left to join MacRobert’s engineering hall of fame

Added: 11 Jan 2024

The deadline is fast approaching for the final chance this year to enter one of UK engineering's mo…