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Million pound eel protection screen unveiled on River Derwent
Added: 10 Sep 2019
Yorkshire Water has completed its £1million scheme has been completed to prevent eels from the Rive…

Ion Science stays on target to achieve £20 million turnover in anniversary year
Added: 10 Sep 2019
The world’s largest manufacturer of volatile organic compounds (VOC) monitors, Cambridge-based Ion …

Schaeffler supplies its largest-ever spherical plain bearing
Added: 10 Sep 2019
Schaeffler has produced the largest spherical plain bearing in the company’s history – a monster w…

Financial jargon a ‘brake on manufacturing growth’
Added: 10 Sep 2019
Small to medium sized manufacturing enterprises are missing out on access to better finance because…

Company claims another first for automated gas filling plants
Added: 3 Sep 2019
The company that created the first full automated gas filling plant has launched a rival site now b…
Nominations launch for IChemE 2020 medals including new Clean Energy award
Added: 2 Sep 2019
The Institution of Chemical Engineers has added a Clean Energy category to its annual array of meda…

Manufacturing unprepared for supply chain legal changes, warns consultancy
Added: 2 Sep 2019
Nearly two thirds of engineering, manufacturing and tech business responding to a survey say they a…

Heritage Award for Watt’s surviving historic Dundee engine
Added: 2 Sep 2019
The Institution of Mechanical Engineers has presented its Engineering Heritage Award to one of only…

Nearly 40 key bodies back new engineering manifesto demands
Added: 28 Aug 2019
The body representing key professional organisations and almost half a million UK engineers, has pu…

Environment Agency and utilities under attack for ‘open sewer’ rivers
Added: 27 Aug 2019
The Environment Agency and utility companies have come under increased criticism over the state of …

New Pump Industry Awards promise nominations boost for anniversary year
Added: 27 Aug 2019
The Pump Industry Awards is braced for even more nominations to mark its 20th anniversary next year…

Manufacturers report turnover fall and recruitment squeeze, claims survey
Added: 27 Aug 2019
UK manufacturers are developing their own workforces to counter a chronic shortage of suitable recr…

Xylem salute to Whaley Bridge flood emergency team
Added: 20 Aug 2019
Xylem UK chief Jason Howlett has congratulated his staff for their part in helping to prevent the c…

Queen’s Belfast offers free renewable energy testing
Added: 19 Aug 2019
Energy and other companies will be able to access one of the most advanced testing equipment and an…

First UK training course for fast-growing industrial drones market
Added: 19 Aug 2019
The Engineering Construction Industry Training Board (ECITB) has launched the UK’s first training c…

North West hatches scheme for ‘smart’ eggs and a digital-led boom
Added: 19 Aug 2019
A company planning to use Big Data and analytics to produce more efficient and happier egg-laying h…

Peel deal creates £130 million plastic-waste-for-hydrogen solution
Added: 13 Aug 2019
Eleven waste-plastic-to-hydrogen facilities are to be created across the UK in a new agreement betw…

ABB secures key Central Asian digital refinery project
Added: 12 Aug 2019
Global technology leader ABB is to play a strategic role in the transformation of Central Asia’s ma…

Assystem’s Fouin becomes first female to chair Nuclear Institute in North East
Added: 12 Aug 2019
Global engineering organisation Assystem has announced that its senior mechanical engineer has been…

It's not only in life that engineers avoid the limelight
Added: 12 Aug 2019
Engineers’ long acknowledged habit of being overly modest about their achievements appears to stay …