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Partners’ pioneering PPE materials use waste to tackle waste
Added: 12 Jan 2026
A university famed for its expertise in polymer chemistry has teamed up with a midlands-based firm …
Process news in brief: Apprenticeships, contracts, awards, appointments
Added: 12 Jan 2026
The Manufacturing Technology Centre (MTC) has appointed new non-executive board members from Whiteh…
Uncertainty hints at a surer path to clean fusion energy
Added: 8 Jan 2026
UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) is working with a pioneering AI company in an effort to reduce t…
Process news in brief: appointments, acquisitions, partnerships, expansions
Added: 5 Jan 2026
CEO of INEOS Olefins & Polymers Europe Rob Ingram is the new president of Plastics Europe, the pan-…
CBA reports slight improvements but background concerns for chemical sector
Added: 16 Nov 2025
Improvements in third quarter results within the chemicals sector have failed to allay concerns for…
KTP Awards mark 50th year and £2.3 billion value creation
Added: 16 Nov 2025
Innovate UK’s Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) Awards celebrated the scheme’s half century with…
Process news in brief: sector recruitment, expansions, training, appointments, contracts
Added: 25 Oct 2025
Hereford’s New Model Institute for Technology & Engineering (NMITE) is celebrating its largest-ever…
Innovators saluted at 2025 IET Achievement Awards
Added: 24 Oct 2025
Pioneers in photovoltaics, physical computing, quantum and wearable tech dominated this year’s Inst…
Start-up and college to launch industrial waste-to-feedstock trading platform
Added: 24 Oct 2025
A collaboration between a business startup and a college, aided by a biotech support organisation, …
Engineering bodies highlight STEM gender gaps as exam results revealed
Added: 21 Aug 2025
Engineering leaders have welcomed signs of progress in science and technology uptake among students…
Plaudits for industrial strategy marred by disappointment over chemicals ‘exclusion’
Added: 3 Jul 2025
Chemical Business Association CEO Tim Doggett has expressed “deep disappointment” over the absenceo…
Ofwat winners share £42 million for innovative projects
Added: 27 May 2025
Sixteen technology pioneers will share Ofwat funding of £42 million to aid development of their inn…
Liverpool AM startup secures £0.7 million-plus in a year
Added: 26 May 2025
Liverpool-based advanced manufacturing startup Atomik-AM has secured financial aid of £0.6 million …
Process sectors’ new jobs opportunity: acoustics
Added: 2 May 2025
Workplace safety experts are urging graduates interested in environmental issues to consider a care…
Pharma sector suffers longest downtime disruptions says report
Added: 2 May 2025
UK and European pharmaceutical firms suffer the longest downtime disruptions of any industrial sect…
Academics’ toolkit offers digital steer for SMEs
Added: 2 May 2025
University of East Anglia academics have developed a government-funded toolkit for SME manufacturer…
Deadline for £50k science and engineering scholarship extended to 10 May
Added: 10 Apr 2025
The deadline to apply for a new £50k scholarship administered by the National Physical Laboratory h…
Europe accused of trailing Middle East on sustainable plastics policy
Added: 10 Apr 2025
The European Union is “stuck in the past” in its attitude to so-called oxo-biodegradable plastics, …
ADE warns against two tier approach to net zero
Added: 10 Apr 2025
Factories and business that lie outside government-supported industry clusters are being overlooked…
Entrepreneur Jackson is new Digital Catapult chair
Added: 10 Apr 2025
Entrepreneur and academic professor Keith Jackson is the new chair of deep tech accelerator Digital…
