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Research boost for ready-meals
Added: 26 Nov 2015
Industrial gas supplier BOC has begun a two-year project to develop a cooking and cooling system ai…
Small and potentially mighty
Added: 20 Nov 2015
Big data, the industrial internet of things, smart integration and the cloud are all buzzwords we c…

UK coal-fired plants to close
Added: 18 Nov 2015
The UK’s coal-fired power stations will be shut down within the next ten years, energy secretary Am…

Amec Foster inks graphene deal
Added: 9 Nov 2015
Amec Foster Wheeler has been appointed the preferred engineering partner to Applied Graphene Materi…

Utility combats odour issues
Added: 9 Nov 2015
Yorkshire Water has developed a £30 million action plan to tackle odours from its Saltend wastewate…

South West Water hit with sewage fine
Added: 4 Nov 2015
South West Water was fined £214,000 by Plymouth Crown Court last week after sewage leaked into the …

Food workshop envisions future
Added: 28 Oct 2015
The Food and Drink Federation (FDF) will host a workshop next month that aims to deliver a step-cha…

UK water research gets £3.9m boost
Added: 20 Oct 2015
A new £3.9million research project has been established to help meet the UK’s future needs for a cl…
Battle stations: industrial cyber crime
Rob Smith | Added: 19 Oct 2015
As computer hackers set sight on industrial targets, cyber security experts are throwing their weig…

GE opens app store for industry
Added: 12 Oct 2015
GE said it aimed to create the world’s largest app marketplace for industry as it opened up its Pre…

Urgent call for CCS funding
Added: 7 Oct 2015
Targets for lowering carbon emissions from industry will remain out of reach without carbon dioxide…

Gardner Denver sinks £7m into new plant
Added: 7 Oct 2015
Gardner Denver is investing over £7 million in a new centre at its Simmern production site in Germa…

Low-cost capacitance level switch
Added: 6 Oct 2015
Endress+Hauser has launched the Minicap FTC260/262, an easy-to-install, low-cost capacitance level …

Kerry opens food innovation hub
Added: 5 Oct 2015
Kerry Group has opened a €100m (£74m) global technology and innovation centre in Ireland.

Electricity supply a 'waste' of energy
Added: 5 Oct 2015
More than half of the energy used to supply the UK’s electricity is wasted before it ever reaches c…

Severn Trent fined for sewage leak
Added: 29 Sep 2015
Severn Trent Water has been fined £480,000 after a series of incidents that caused raw sewage to le…

Hot spot: thermal monitoring technology
Added: 28 Sep 2015
Food manufacturers use thermal monitoring technology to control a wide variety of their processes. …

Utility counts cost of water bug
Added: 23 Sep 2015
United Utilities revealed today that water quality issues suffered in Lancashire last month would c…

Amazon UK to supply industry and labs
Added: 22 Sep 2015
Amazon today launched an online industrial and scientific supply store in the UK, which it says wil…

Maintenance slump a 'critical risk'
Added: 17 Sep 2015
A new study has revealed a downward slide for maintenance budgets among UK manufacturers, putting t…