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Water research, Sheffield University lab

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…

Tata Newport foundary

Call for 'urgent' action on UK steel

Added: 19 Oct 2015

The UK government has laid out its strategy to assist the ailing steel sector following a crisis su…

cyber hack security

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…

White Rose CCS carbon capture Drax

Urgent call for CCS funding

Added: 7 Oct 2015

Targets for lowering carbon emissions from industry will remain out of reach without carbon dioxide…

Severn Trent Water

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…

United Utilities reservoir

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…

Condition monitoring

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…

GlaxoSmithKline R&D

GSK teams up with Siemens

Added: 16 Sep 2015

Siemens has signed a global deal with GlaxoSmithKline to supply automation equipment and services t…

Wessex Water

Wessex Water lifts boil notice

Added: 14 Sep 2015

Wessex Water has lifted a ’boil water’ notice affecting 250 of its customers in the Somerset area.

Neway

Gleam team

Added: 2 Sep 2015

Neway, an industrial cleaning specialist based in the north west of England, completed maintenance …

Food and drink sector

'Bouyant' outlook for food sector

Added: 25 Aug 2015

Growth in the UK food and drink manufacturing sector is forecast to rise between 3-4% over the next…

United Utilities reservoir

Ultraviolet rig zaps water utility bug

Added: 20 Aug 2015

United Utilities has deployed ultraviolet rigs to help kill off the final traces of a bug affecting…

Cereal drying plant

UK trails in food waste study

Added: 14 Aug 2015

The UK has been named as the worst-performing region in a European study on food waste.

Condition monitoring

Hidden assets

Added: 11 Aug 2015

When it comes to protecting assets, monitoring those hard-to-reach places need not be a hit and mis…

Waste water treatment plant

Water industry scores with service

Added: 7 Aug 2015

Water companies enjoy a better reputation with the public than other utilities, according to a rece…

Drax

Energy data reveals renewables surge

Added: 4 Aug 2015

The Department of Energy & Climate Change (DECC) published its annual Digest of UK Energy Statistic…

Food machine

Food industry feels the pinch

Added: 3 Aug 2015

A recent survey of UK food manufacturers reveals that optimism has slightly cooled since last year,…

GE

Cleanroom for silicon processing

Added: 29 Jul 2015

GE Measurement & Control has announced a new clean room for silicon processing at its manufacturing…

Water Industry

Payback time for the water industry

Added: 22 Jul 2015

Water utilities in Europe are tackling the problem of aging infrastructure by focusing on innovatio…

Drax Power Plant

Blackout fears amid plant closures

Added: 17 Jul 2015

Winter blackouts are increasingly likely as the UK’s energy capacity margin falls to 1.2% - its low…