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Jo Tipa

New nuclear skills academy chief to start in December as Llewellyn departs

Added: 27 Oct 2017

Jo Tipa, operations manager at the National Skills Academy Nuclear (NSAN), has been appointed as ma…

Business dissatisfaction with UK infrastructure reaches record levels

Added: 24 Oct 2017

Record numbers of UK companies are dissatisfied with the rate of improvement to the country’s infra…

BEIS secretary Clarke to headline EEF manufacturing conference

Added: 24 Oct 2017

Greg Clarke, Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy has been confirmed as …

Welsh firm plays part in Chernobyl’s revival

Added: 24 Oct 2017

Pontypool company Flamgard Calidair is making a key contribution to the demolition of the radioacti…

Register for Siemens’ free workplace digitalisation advice

Siemens | Added: 17 Oct 2017

Five minutes’ expert advice before taking decisions is useful – so how helpful would 45 minutes be?…

Emerson’s Paradigm takeover will boost position in exploration software

Added: 17 Oct 2017

Emerson has positioned itself as the largest independent provider of exploration and production sof…

Chemicals giant Bayer sells seeds business to BASF for €5.9bn

Added: 13 Oct 2017

German chemicals manufacturer Bayer has sold a number of its crop seeds business units to BASF for …

Kids Schools Skills2

Tomorrow’s Engineers launches skills partnership for English schools

Added: 12 Oct 2017

Tomorrow’s Engineers and education provider STEM Learning have launched a skills partnership design…

Amec Foster Wheeler takeover provides North Sea entry for WorleyParsons

Added: 11 Oct 2017

Amec Foster Wheeler’s North Sea oil and gas maintenance business arm is to be sold to WorleyParsons…

Antibiotics

Quantum dots trigger antibiotic treatment boost, research finds

Added: 5 Oct 2017

Research by the University of Colorado at Boulder suggests light-activated nanoparticles could be u…

How digitalisation can enhance your plant: Siemens’ free webinar

Added: 3 Oct 2017

Digitalisation is impacting the workplace but what businesses want to know is: how much of it actua…

Sheffield Uni AMRC deal creates manufacturing centre in Oman

Added: 19 Sep 2017

The University of Sheffield’s Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre has launched a project with Om…

Show Preview: Northern Manufacturing & Electronics 2017

Added: 19 Sep 2017

Northern Manufacturing & Electronics, the North’s industrial technology and electronics show, retur…

Decontamination equipment: the importance of staff training

Added: 18 Sep 2017

You can’t handle hazardous materials without the right tools but managers need to ensure the people…

Autodesk webinar focuses on new product development

Autodesk, Inc. | Added: 11 Sep 2017

Software specialist Autodesk is holding a free webinar on 2 November at 11am entitled ‘Improving ne…

Viewpoint: more science teachers spells STEM success

Added: 5 Sep 2017

To fill the STEM shortfall in UK industry, you don’t start with university – you begin with schools…

Premier Oil North Sea platform

OPITO commissions major survey on North Sea labour market

Added: 4 Sep 2017

Robert Gordon University’s Oil and Gas Institute will carry out a major analysis of the UK Continen…

Amec Foster Wheeler secures key nuclear waste contracts worth £4 million

Added: 23 Aug 2017

Amec Foster Wheeler has won two contracts worth £4 million from LLW Repository, the company respons…

Jacopa’s commitment to training is recognised with SME of the Year nomination

Jacopa Ltd | Added: 22 Aug 2017

Wastewater treatment specialist Jacopa has been rewarded for its “exceptional commitment to learnin…

Eurofins’ new £4 million laboratory brings testing under one roof

Added: 4 Aug 2017

Work has finished on Eurofins’ new high-tech laboratory site for testing water and pharmaceutical p…