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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…

Reduced demand prompts closure of Staffordshire’s council-run laboratory
Added: 31 Jul 2017
One of the last local authority-run laboratories in England is to be closed with the loss of 16 pos…

UK offshore oil and gas safety record improving says report
Added: 27 Jul 2017
The UK’s offshore oil and gas industry has reported its lowest ever incidence of so-called ‘dangero…

CBI and EEF reports reveal upturn in UK manufacturing performance
Added: 25 Jul 2017
Reports from the CBI and EEF published this week suggest that manufacturing output in the UK is imp…

Work experience ‘more reliable’ than socio-economic background in chemical engineering, report finds
Added: 17 Jul 2017
Work experience is ‘more reliable’ than socio-economic background when predicting employment potent…

OPITO confirms McDonald as chief executive officer
Added: 13 Jul 2017
OPITO, the international workforce, safety and standards organisation for oil and gas, has appointe…

‘Act now to boost UK food and drink’s global competitiveness’
Added: 10 Jul 2017
Government must act fast to ensure that the food and drink sector in Britain maintains its workforc…
Better leadership needed to avert Buncefield-style disasters, warns ABB
Added: 10 Jul 2017
Better leadership is needed in the process industries to avoid repetition of accidents on the scale…

EngineeringUK announces new chief executive
Added: 5 Jul 2017
EngineeringUK announced today that Mark Titterington has been appointed as its new chief executive.

SPX Flow joint venture workshop to service Iraq’s ‘super giant’ oil fields
Added: 5 Jul 2017
SPX Flow has signed a joint venture agreement with the WTE Wajdi Group Group to service all rotatin…

News viewpoint: how the General Election result will affect the process sectors
Added: 4 Jul 2017
The hung parliament that has emerged diminishes the likelihood of a hard Brexit, but brings other p…

Lucideon to host materials drying process webinar
Added: 4 Jul 2017
International, independent materials technology company Lucideon is hosting a webinar entitled ‘Opt…

Skills shortage ‘costs UK industry £2 billion a year’
Added: 3 Jul 2017
Britain’s burgeoning skills shortage is already costing the country £2 billion in recruitment costs…

Myth-busting film marks Women in Engineering Day
Added: 23 Jun 2017
SSE is marking International Women in Engineering Day with a film that aims to counter some of the …
Process leaders demand Brexit scrutiny and safeguards after Queen's Speech
Added: 21 Jun 2017
Early responses from process industry leaders to the Queen’s Speech outlining the Government’s appr…

UK Power Networks CEO Scarsella to chair Energy & Skills Partnership
Added: 19 Jun 2017
UK Power Networks CEO Basil Scarsella has been appointed as the new chair of the Energy & Utilities…

IET young engineers competition to inspire next generation
Added: 13 Jun 2017
The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) is hosting a competition designed to inspire th…