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MakeUK/BDO survey applauds Q4 growth but says worries ahead
Added: 14 Dec 2025
Make UK issued a relatively upbeat report on UK manufacturing for the final quarter of 2025, with b…
Chemmies salute sector stars on stage at Blackpool
Added: 14 Dec 2025
DSV Air and Sea topped the finalists at this year’s Chemmie Awards hosted by the Chemical Business …
BCAS appoints Hayward as first female president
Added: 14 Dec 2025
Wendy Hayward has made history as the first woman president appointed to head the British Compresse…
In engineers we trust: poll lays bare public support
Added: 14 Dec 2025
Public trust in a variety of once-respected roles is falling but engineers remain one profession in…
CBA reports slight improvements but background concerns for chemical sector
Added: 16 Nov 2025
Improvements in third quarter results within the chemicals sector have failed to allay concerns for…
KTP Awards mark 50th year and £2.3 billion value creation
Added: 16 Nov 2025
Innovate UK’s Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) Awards celebrated the scheme’s half century with…
Atlas Group purchases Anglian Compressors
Added: 16 Nov 2025
Anglian Compressors & Equipment, the Cambridgeshire-based compressed air distributor, has been acqu…
Process news in brief: sector recruitment, expansions, training, appointments, contracts
Added: 25 Oct 2025
Hereford’s New Model Institute for Technology & Engineering (NMITE) is celebrating its largest-ever…
Innovators saluted at 2025 IET Achievement Awards
Added: 24 Oct 2025
Pioneers in photovoltaics, physical computing, quantum and wearable tech dominated this year’s Inst…
Start-up and college to launch industrial waste-to-feedstock trading platform
Added: 24 Oct 2025
A collaboration between a business startup and a college, aided by a biotech support organisation, …
Former minister Halfon appointed to key Make UK role
Added: 19 Oct 2025
Make UK has appointed former Tory minister Robert Halfon as its new executive director responsible …
Engineering bodies highlight STEM gender gaps as exam results revealed
Added: 21 Aug 2025
Engineering leaders have welcomed signs of progress in science and technology uptake among students…
RAEng mourns loss of former chief Sir David Davies
Added: 21 Aug 2025
Former Royal Academy of Engineering president and government adviser Sir David Davies has died at t…
PE news in brief: chemicals supply chain, steel closure, overtime issues
Added: 21 Aug 2025
The Chemical Business Association has reported “cautious optimism” in its Q2 2025 supply chain surv…
Busch co-founder Dr Karl Busch dies aged 96
Added: 22 Jul 2025
Dr Karl Busch, co-founder/owner of global vacuum specialist the Busch Group, has died at the age of…
MacRobert honours groundbreaking organ technology
Added: 16 Jul 2025
An Oxford university spin-out has claimed one of British engineering’s leading awards for its techn…
Plaudits for industrial strategy marred by disappointment over chemicals ‘exclusion’
Added: 3 Jul 2025
Chemical Business Association CEO Tim Doggett has expressed “deep disappointment” over the absenceo…
UVAC warns NEETs focus could undermine industrial productivity
Added: 3 Jul 2025
Government focus on reducing the number of young people not in employment, education or training (N…
Steel industry welcome for business secretary’s commitment to sector
Added: 3 Jul 2025
Business secretary Jonathan Reynolds, has “again shown that he is on the side of British industry i…
Ofwat winners share £42 million for innovative projects
Added: 27 May 2025
Sixteen technology pioneers will share Ofwat funding of £42 million to aid development of their inn…
