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New site will boost FES manufacturing operation and staff

Added: 13 Mar 2018

Engineering firm FES has boosted its staff by 40% with the opening of a new manufacturing plant in …

Aveva focuses on importance of strong communication in major projects

Added: 1 Mar 2018

Aveva’s new white paper examines the value of strong communication throughout the project cycle.

Tata Steel

Tata Steel fined £1.4m following maintenance worker death

Added: 21 Feb 2018

Tata Steel was fined £1.4 million in February following the death of 26-year-old maintenance engine…

robot

Wood handed contract to bring space tech to nuclear decommissioning

Added: 20 Feb 2018

The Government has awarded energy services firm Wood Group funding worth around £1.5 million to mak…

Bilfinger streamlines UK businesses to target new markets

Added: 6 Feb 2018

Global engineering company Bilfinger has merged two of its core UK businesses, saying it would make…

Apex automated inventory

Apex technology provides a lift for JCB supply chain

Added: 22 Jan 2018

With operations running 24 hours a day, leading equipment manufacturer JCB frequently ran into sign…

Philip Hammond

Process industry awaits outcome of first Autumn Budget

Added: 21 Nov 2017

As Chancellor Philip Hammond delivers the UK’s first Autumn Budget in 20 years, process industry le…

TLV Euro Engineering presents Steam System Optimization Program

Added: 20 Nov 2017

TLV Euro Engineering has introduced the Steam System Optimization Program (SSOP) in order to help c…

We must help MPs understand the importance of the process industries

Added: 6 Nov 2017

There is, we know, a substantial job of work to do in terms of enabling the rest of the United King…

Robotic arm

‘Human-robot collaboration needed to counter 0.6 million job threat’

Added: 1 Nov 2017

An estimated 0.6 million UK jobs will disappear in one industrial sector alone over the next 20 yea…

Industry 4.0: the antidote to supply chain disruption

Added: 31 Oct 2017

Industry 4.0 and smart use of data is not disrupting the supply chain, says LLamasoft’s Michael Wal…

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 …

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?…

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…

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…

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…

NORTH SEA OIL GAS RIG

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…

Cuadrilla shale site

UKOOG – Government must act to protect gas reserves

Added: 22 Jun 2017

The UK will become increasingly reliant upon imported gas if it does not embark on a strategy to bo…

Longannet power station

Industry leaders call for UK to lead on energy transition after Trump pull out

Added: 2 Jun 2017

Industry bodies reacted with dismay to US president Donald Trump’s intention to withdraw his countr…

More than £0.3 mill in R&D on offer to engineering innovators

Added: 30 May 2017

Seven engineering innovators will have the chance to share £350,000 of R&D support in a competition…