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Internet of Things research hub for UK
Added: 2 Jun 2015
The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) has today opened a competition to de…
Manufacturing loses momentum
Added: 1 Jun 2015
Figures released today suggest manufacturing is growing at a slower rate than expected, though CIPS…
Ferrybridge power station to close
Added: 20 May 2015
SSE has announced it will shut its Ferrybridge coal-fired power station in West Yorkshire next year…
Government crackdown on late payments
Added: 20 May 2015
Newly-appointed business secretary Sajid Javid yesterday used his first speech to promise the gover…
Carbon Trust cooks up savings
Added: 13 May 2015
Results from industry trials conducted by the Carbon Trust demonstrate that improved ventilation in…
Dungeness in £30m maintenance shutdown
Added: 30 Apr 2015
EDF Energy will tomorrow take one of the two nuclear reactors at Dungeness B power station in Kent …
BP refining profits double
Added: 28 Apr 2015
BP today announced downstream oil & gas pre-tax profits of $2.2 billion (£1.44bn) for the first thr…
Silo design best practice for bulk materials
Added: 22 Apr 2015
The costs associated with commissioning overruns or troubleshooting poor plant performance are reco…
Sea Change
Added: 22 Apr 2015
Plummeting oil prices have added further impetus to the Wood Review’s call for greater production e…
Amec FW wins nuclear decommissioning role
Added: 16 Apr 2015
The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) has awarded Amec Foster Wheeler a contract to provide d…
Manufacturing orders fall, says CBI
Added: 24 Mar 2015
Manufacturers’ order book levels have fallen this month, according to a survey by the CBI.
North Sea emergency simulated
Added: 24 Mar 2015
The emergency services and RAF were among those working with Oil & Gas industry representatives las…
Industry wasting £1.4bn on lighting
Added: 24 Mar 2015
An estimated 75% of UK industrial lighting installations don’t meet current industry design standar…
Safety: a ticking timebomb
Added: 11 Mar 2015
Later this year the process industry will mark an anniversary it would prefer to forget: 10 years s…
Process safety: barely begun
Added: 11 Mar 2015
Ten years on from the Buncefield explosion, only small steps have been taken to establish a process…
Don’t dismiss process safety
Added: 11 Mar 2015
Hundreds of safety incidents still occur every year in the process industries, showing that old les…
Manufacturers voice ‘Industry 4.0’ concern
Added: 23 Feb 2015
Manufacturing trade body EEF has published research which suggests that 80% of manufacturers in the…
Maintenance on the move
Added: 18 Feb 2015
How are the current crop of maintenance management systems keeping up with the push for increased m…
Why motors break down
Added: 11 Feb 2015
There are many reasons why electric motors fail, but some are much more common than others, says Eu…
Dungeness nuclear plant life to be extended
Added: 20 Jan 2015
EDF Energy today announced plans to extend the operational life of Dungeness B nuclear power plant …
