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Walder returns to Rockwell Automation
Added: 12 Jun 2012
London – Rockwell Automation has appointed Martin Walder to lead its ‘industry focused’ teams in; o…

UK public sees engineering sector as 'low-skilled'
Added: 11 Jun 2012
London – Most UK adults believe the country’s industrial sector is important, but many regard manuf…

New leader for Dow in Europe
Added: 11 Jun 2012
Midland, Michigan - Heinz Haller, executive vice president and chief commercial officer of Dow, has…

Student capture and storage
Added: 25 May 2012
The UK is training just over a third of the 30,000 new graduates needed to bridge the skills gap in…

Rio Tinto teams up with Imperial College
Added: 18 May 2012
Rio Tinto and Imperial have announced scholarships to support the training of engineers

UK 'game' aids Saudi Arabia's largest steel maker
Added: 17 May 2012
Warrington, UK – Saudi Arabia’s largest steel manufacturer, Hadeed, is rolling out an intensive wor…

Manchester students net IChemE sustainability prize
Added: 10 May 2012
Manchester, UK – A project to turn corn waste into succinic acid has earned an international sustai…

STEM gap-year numbers bounce back
Added: 23 Apr 2012
London – Companies are reporting a big increase in working gap-year applications from science, tech…

Imperial College London opens carbon capture plant
Added: 19 Apr 2012
London – Imperial College London has officially opened a carbon capture pilot plant within the chem…

New safety training standard for oil & gas industry
Added: 18 Apr 2012
London – A new oil and gas industry training standard, designed to improve safety at offshore works…

Engineering skills in high demand as infrastructure investment hits record level
Added: 12 Mar 2012
London - Demand for engineering skills is continuing to defy the otherwise weak jobs market, buoyed…

UK manufacturing good ... but at the wrong things
Added: 12 Mar 2012
London – Amid the coalition government’s drive – or, as its business secretary Vince Cable describe…

Stop-start water cycle blocks technology flow
Added: 8 Mar 2012

London – ?After a slow start to the current Asset Management Plan - AMP5 (2010-15) - suppliers have…

Apprentices success story to end?
Added: 8 Mar 2012
London – T?ime is running out for the Tees Valley Apprenticeship Programme (TVAP) in the North East…

Skills shortages are a number one concern
Added: 13 Feb 2012
Skills shortages are now the no. 1 issue for the process industries worldwide, industry leaders rep…

Skills overhaul boosts productivity at BASF
Added: 6 Feb 2012
BASF has reported significant improvements in productivity following a National Skills Academy Proc…

BP increasing graduate recruitment by 50%
Added: 2 Feb 2012
London – BP is increasing its annual UK graduate recruitment by 50%, to nearly 250 graduates, in 20…

UK chemical engineering course applications up 12%
Added: 31 Jan 2012
London – Chemical engineering degree courses have attracted 11,890 applications, 12.4% more than th…

3D software helps Aberdeen start-up
Added: 26 Jan 2012
Aberdeen, UK – When Aberdeen-based Liberty Drilling Equipment (LDE) was founded in October 2010, it…

System integrators in demand in India
Added: 25 Jan 2012
London – Manufacturing companies in India are increasingly turning to system integrators to impleme…