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Thames Water fined £380k for polluting stream
Added: 9 Mar 2016
Thames Water has been fined £380,000 for polluting a rural stream in Buckinghamshire over a series …
Public backs women as engineers
Added: 8 Mar 2016
A survey conducted by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) suggests almost 80% of the p…
EDF finance chief quits over Hinkley Point
Added: 7 Mar 2016
French utility EDF has confirmed the resignation of its chief financial officer Thomas Piquemal ami…
Manufacturing slide starts to ‘bottom out’
Louisa Hearn | Added: 7 Mar 2016
The manufacturing sector’s ride into negative territory may be coming to an end, says a quarterly s…
'Urgent rethink' on energy storage key to cutting power bills
Added: 3 Mar 2016
A new Carbon Trust report has revealed that the introduction of more efficient energy storage syste…
Carbon nanotubes could extend nuclear reactor life
Added: 3 Mar 2016
Research conducted by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) suggests small amounts of car…
Enzyme study tackles biofuel efficiency
Added: 2 Mar 2016
A team of researchers has made a ‘significant step’ in understanding the processes naturally-occurr…
Mars recalls chocolate bars over plastic contamination fears
Added: 1 Mar 2016
Food group Mars has issued a Europe-wide recall of some of its chocolate products, following the di…
UK scientists seek to unlock biorefining processes
Added: 29 Feb 2016
A new collaborative research project has been launched to improve the biorefining processes behind …
Didcot power station collapses
Rob Smith | Added: 23 Feb 2016
A major incident has been declared following the partial collapse of a building at Didcot A power s…
Food and drink sector eyes fresh opportunities
Added: 23 Feb 2016
Many UK food and drink manufacturers are set to splash out on product and technological innovation …
North Sea tax breaks ‘critical for competitiveness’
Added: 23 Feb 2016
Pressures on the North Sea have prompted industry body Oil & Gas UK to lobby for a significant perm…
DuPont and Dow flesh out merger plans
Added: 22 Feb 2016
DuPont and Dow Chemical Company have announced the new corporate structure that is likely to result…
Industry app store ‘opens to everyone’
Added: 22 Feb 2016
GE has opened its cloud-based Predix platform to all developers, following a soft launch in October…
Bovine biomass could ‘revolutionise’ renewables
Added: 22 Feb 2016
A team of UK researchers at Harper Adams University is looking at how fungi found in a cow’s stomac…
‘Smart skin’ mimics real thing
Added: 19 Feb 2016
Researchers at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia have developed …
AkzoNobel to snap up BASF coatings business
Added: 17 Feb 2016
AkzoNobel, the Dutch specialty chemicals company, has announced plans to buy BASF’s industrial coat…
Crunch time for ailing steel sector
Added: 16 Feb 2016
A campaign to tackle the threats posed by the influx of cheap Chinese steel into Europe was launche…
EDF extends the life of four UK nuclear plants
Added: 16 Feb 2016
French energy firm EDF Energy has announced plans to extend the life at four of its nuclear power s…
Top pharma firms fined £45m
Rob Smith | Added: 12 Feb 2016
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has fined a number of pharmaceuticals firms – including…
