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Make UK urges government to focus on upskilling for AI era
Added: 23 Apr 2019
Manufacturers’ association Make UK has called for more help to be made available for firms wishing …

Buhler’s revolutionary food safety camera earns Queen’s Award
Added: 23 Apr 2019
Buhler UK has won a Queen’s Award for Enterprise in the innovation category for its work on the use…

Nominations open for IET Achievement Awards 2019
Added: 23 Apr 2019
Nominations have opened for the Institution of Engineering and Technology’s (IET) annual Achievemen…

Increase incentives to retain STEM teachers urges IMechE
Added: 17 Apr 2019
Financial incentives and better career development are essential to stem the loss of STEM subject t…

Hexagon lends an arm to boost AFRC’s measurement capacity
Added: 17 Apr 2019
The University of Strathclyde’s Advanced Forming Research Centre (AFRC) is being provided with stat…

Survey claims to show utility company staff are bigger time wasters
Added: 16 Apr 2019
Energy and utility company workers spend almost half an average working day procrastinating and was…

European manufacturers join lobby against no-deal Brexit
Added: 16 Apr 2019
European-wide industrial employers organisation Ceemet has swung its weight behind Make UK’s effort…

Dyson Awards and RAE leaders programme invite applications for 2019
Added: 8 Apr 2019
Inventor James Dyson announced the launch of the 2019 version of his annual global award scheme for…

Bank says better finance would help generate £180 billion-plus for SME manufacturers
Added: 8 Apr 2019
Small to medium-sized manufacturing firms in the UK would boost revenue by an extra £183 billion if…

Honeywell celebrates a hat trick of design wins
Added: 8 Apr 2019
Honeywell has scored wins in three separate design awards for products created for industrial safet…

City airport awards three-year electrical and drainage contract to Dyer & Butler
Added: 8 Apr 2019
Engineering services specialist Dyer & Butler has secured a major contract with London City Airport…

RAE unveils Seven Wonders of the engineering world to spur recruits
Added: 2 Apr 2019
Clean Water, Gore-Tex fabric and 3D printed bone implants have been listed by a poll of young UK pr…

Renishaw co-founder hailed as one of Ireland’s great inventors
Added: 29 Mar 2019
Renishaw co-founder Sir David McMurtry might be associated with his company’s Gloucestershire home …

Aramco's SABIC purchase signals Saudi intention to lead in petrochemicals
Added: 27 Mar 2019
Leading oil producer Aramco has purchased a 70% stake in its fellow Saudi enterprise, SABIC, the wo…

Manufacturers’ Brexit wariness offset by China’s economic woes, suggests global survey
Added: 26 Mar 2019
Despite concern over the effect of Brexit on supply chains, manufacturers have shown a growing pref…

Young engineers aim for the world stage
Added: 26 Mar 2019
Four teens from Worcester have made it to the World Finals of a global engineering challenge for yo…

Retiring engineers more than double the number of new recruits, reveals data
Added: 25 Mar 2019
Large numbers of engineering workers close to retirement, coupled with a growth in the number of jo…

Pump Industry Awards crown 2019 winners
Added: 22 Mar 2019
Xylem’s Flyght concertor won the Process Engineering-sponsored Product of the Year category at the …

Hydro “making progress” after attack as experts call for more cyber cooperation
Added: 19 Mar 2019
Renewable energy and aluminium supplier Norsk Hydro, whose holdings include several UK sites, said …

Electronics drives manufacturing growth says Make UK
Added: 19 Mar 2019
Britain’s electronics sector fuelled nearly two thirds of the country’s manufacturing growth last y…