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Pressure grows for Budget boost to manufacturing
Added: 9 Mar 2020
As the Chancellor prepared the first Budget of Boris Johnson’s administration, manufacturing leader…
Just a quarter of young people know nuclear is low carbon source
Added: 9 Mar 2020
Barely one in four people aged 18-24 surveyed realise nuclear power is a low carbon source of elect…
Severn Trent and partner get £1 mill innovation grant to treat wastewater
Added: 3 Mar 2020
Clean tech company CCm Technologies has been awarded approximately £1 million in government funding…
VSDs to lose exemption from tough new Euro motor efficiency rules
Added: 3 Mar 2020
Variable speed drives will be included for the first time in stringent new rules for electric motor…
Expert warns coronavirus impact will heighten need for Industry 4.0 solutions
Added: 3 Mar 2020
The economic disruption caused by global disasters such as the coronavirus outbreak would be tackle…
Nature offers key to producing sustainable chemicals
Added: 25 Feb 2020
Industrial products that currently depend for their creation on chemicals from hydrogen and fossil …
'Engineers fear skills shortages but ignore tax relief that would help'
Added: 25 Feb 2020
Over a third of UK engineers surveyed worry about skills shortages but more than a fifth of their c…
Scotland’s life sciences sector on track to exceed £8 billion target by 2025
Added: 25 Feb 2020
New figures published today by the Scottish Government show company employment in Scotland’s life s…
Bilfinger awarded multi-million Hinkley Point C contract
Added: 25 Feb 2020
Hinkley Point C owner EDF has awarded Bilfinger a £58 million contract from for the execution desig…
Engineering manages year on year salary growth despite Brexit jitters
Added: 14 Feb 2020
Salary levels across the engineering sector continued to grow last year, with 2.1 per cent average …
Poo to food breakthrough could boost farm to fork security
Added: 14 Feb 2020
Phosphate vital for agricultural fertiliser could be produced on an industrial scale from sewage sl…
Materials apprenticeship degree finally makes the grade
Added: 14 Feb 2020
The long-awaited new degree apprenticeship for trainees in materials science across the UK has rece…
Steel industry decarbonisation project secures £1.26 million
Added: 14 Feb 2020
The UK Research and Innovation-funded Centre for Research into Energy Demand Solutions (CREDS), has…
Women recruits ‘put at risk by PPE clothing designed for men’
Added: 4 Feb 2020
Personal protection equipment (PPE) is failing to adapt to the needs of the growing number of women…
University innovators harness bat power for new pipeline leak solution
Added: 3 Feb 2020
While Bruce Wayne did it in fiction, university engineers and their partners have harnessed the nat…
Bessemer bids to improve the innovation investment process
Added: 3 Feb 2020
Government must recognise that innovative ‘hard tech’ companies face greater investment difficultie…
Visa moves ‘must not block European talent pool’
Added: 29 Jan 2020
Government attempts to overhaul the visa system and ensure a flow of leading scientific talent from…
North West calls on Government to develop region as low carbon cluster
Added: 29 Jan 2020
North West industry leaders say £4 billion of investment and 33,000 jobs could be created if Govern…
ECITB unveils nearly £100 million in industry training investment
Added: 29 Jan 2020
The Engineering Construction Industry Training Board (ECITB) has announced a £90 million investment…
Food and drink SMEs have chance of £20k worth of tech and innovation facilities
Added: 21 Jan 2020
Lincoln University’s National Centre for Food Manufacturing (NCFM) is offering small business the c…
