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Vote quickly for 2025 Pump Industry Awards finalists...
Added: 14 Jan 2025
There is now just days left to take part in voting for your category choices in the 2025 Pump Indus…

Defence investment provides ‘milestone’ grant for materials casting project
Added: 14 Jan 2025
Wall Colmonoy has successfully bid for funding from the Defence Technology Exploitation Programme (…

TV food scientist reinforces call for better UPF regulation ahead of annual lecture series
Added: 20 Dec 2024
Warning labels and “carefully considered taxes” would provide a start on the improved regulation of…

‘Budget alone cannot account for manufacturing index drop’
Added: 4 Dec 2024
Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ recent Budget has contributed to a fall in the regular CIPS UK Manufactur…

Materials science apprenticeship degree wins funding go ahead
Added: 4 Dec 2024
The University of Birmingham and MTC Training’s new degree apprenticeship in manufacturing engineer…

Refinery operators urged to focus on efficiency for resilience
Added: 4 Dec 2024
Refinery operators were urged to put efficiency gains under the spotlight in preparation for a slow…

Kenya initiative paves the way for a more secure process cold chain
Added: 4 Dec 2024
More than 130 Kenyan farmers have signed up for a new scheme set up with help from the University o…

Covid’s long tail costing UK productivity billions, claims research
Added: 13 Nov 2024
The effects of ‘long Covid’ may be costing the UK economy billions of pounds as continued illness a…

Lucideon hails AMRICC hydrogen firing breakthrough
Added: 13 Nov 2024
Advanced ceramics research organisation Lucideon says it has achieved the first 100% hydrogen firin…

RVRC seeks to shift net zero focus to industry emissions
Added: 13 Nov 2024
A new initiative sited at the National Manufacturing Institute Scotland (NMIS) plans to focus indus…

2024 Pump Industry Awards nominations deadline looms
Added: 12 Nov 2024
The British Pump Manufacturers Association is urging members not to miss the nominations process fo…

Industrial strategy will boost UK reshoring, say Make UK/RSM survey responders
Added: 23 Oct 2024
Announcement of the Government’s long-term industrial strategy will revive the country’s offshore m…

UK lagging in AI patent filing race
Added: 23 Oct 2024
The UK ranks eighth in a global list of nations filing AI patents and lags behind leading competito…

QUB secures £6.5 million for supply chain initiative
Added: 23 Oct 2024
Queen's University Belfast has secured £6.25 million funding from UK Research and Innovation, to mo…

UVAC claims funding plans for apprenticeships are ‘major blow’ to engineering
Added: 23 Oct 2024
Plans to restrict levy funding of level 7 apprenticeships will widen the skills gap, hinder the ec…

News roundup: Industrial strategy, women engineers, RoSPA awards
Added: 16 Oct 2024
CEO of Make UK Stephen Phipson has given an emphatic welcome to the Government’s new industrial str…

Sheffield AMRC and Boeing science-industry partnership wins Bhattacharyya Award
Added: 30 Sep 2024
The University of Sheffield’s Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC) and Boeing have won the…

Government signs deal for Tata furnace go-ahead
Added: 16 Sep 2024
Tata Steel has signed an agreement with the Government for a £500 million funding plan to enable th…

Engineering charity launches new online wellbeing tool
Added: 16 Sep 2024
Engineering charity Foothold has unveiled a new online mental health product for professionals and …

North East’s largest process industry expo returns bigger than ever for 2024
Added: 16 Sep 2024
The North East of England Process Industry Cluster’s (NEPIC) Meet the Members Expo and Conference i…