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Girls ‘not smart enough’ for science
Added: 2 Oct 2015
Almost a third (32%) of girls aged 11-16 do not think they are clever enough to become scientists, …
Severn Trent fined for sewage leak
Added: 29 Sep 2015
Severn Trent Water has been fined £480,000 after a series of incidents that caused raw sewage to le…
Shell pulls out of Alaska
Added: 29 Sep 2015
Oil and gas firm Shell has announced it will abandon drilling operations off the coast of Alaska.
Chemical firm solves PET ‘puzzle’
Added: 28 Sep 2015
A process that allows all grades of PET (plastics) to be recycled will soon be commercialised by a …
Drax abandons CCS project
Added: 25 Sep 2015
Energy firm Drax has announced it will end further investment in the 426MW White Rose carbon captur…
Utility counts cost of water bug
Added: 23 Sep 2015
United Utilities revealed today that water quality issues suffered in Lancashire last month would c…
Pharma firms go green
Added: 23 Sep 2015
A new renewable energy plant located in Cramlington, Northumberland will have an annual generating …
Subsea gas plant is world first
Added: 22 Sep 2015
The world’s first subsea gas compression plant has officially come online, its developer Statoil ha…
Amazon UK to supply industry and labs
Added: 22 Sep 2015
Amazon today launched an online industrial and scientific supply store in the UK, which it says wil…
Osborne announces £2bn Hinkley deal
Added: 21 Sep 2015
Chancellor George Osborne has today announced a £2 billion guarantee with China for the development…
Utilities splash-out on upgrades
Added: 18 Sep 2015
Water supply and treatment utility Yorkshire Water has announced a £100 million mechanical contract…
Maintenance slump a 'critical risk'
Added: 17 Sep 2015
A new study has revealed a downward slide for maintenance budgets among UK manufacturers, putting t…
GSK teams up with Siemens
Added: 16 Sep 2015
Siemens has signed a global deal with GlaxoSmithKline to supply automation equipment and services t…
Skills support impacting SMEs
Added: 15 Sep 2015
Small and medium sized enterprises (SME) are building a competitive advantage through training and …
Wessex Water lifts boil notice
Added: 14 Sep 2015
Wessex Water has lifted a ’boil water’ notice affecting 250 of its customers in the Somerset area.
Scrap ineffective green taxes, says EEF
Added: 14 Sep 2015
A report published by manufacturers’ organisation EEF calls on the government to scrap the Carbon F…
Breakthrough in plant efficiency
Added: 10 Sep 2015
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have revealed new analysis that coul…
Oil & gas boasts efficiency drive
Added: 9 Sep 2015
Efforts to improve efficiency in the North Sea are beginning to pay off, a new report suggests.
New detector tackles tiny particles
Added: 8 Sep 2015
Air Monitors has launched in the UK what it describes as the world’s smallest nanoparticle detector…
Food & drink exports take a tumble
Added: 7 Sep 2015
The value of UK food and non-alcoholic drink exports fell by 5.3% to £6bn in the first half of this…
