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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…

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…

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…

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…

Sheffield claims 3D antibacterial breakthrough
Added: 21 Jan 2020
University of Sheffield scientists have claimed a scientific and manufacturing breakthrough with th…

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…

Schneider scores two repeat wins for sustainability once again
Added: 21 Jan 2020
Schneider Electric has once more made it on to two of the most prestigious ‘clean company’ lists in…

UK tech sector makes history with world-beating investment performance
Added: 15 Jan 2020
Investments in the UK tech sector reached record-breaking levels for the third successive year, wit…

Make UK bids to smash the five apprenticeship myths
Added: 14 Jan 2020
Manufacturers’ organisation Make UK will use its impending Aston Technology Hub event to debunk fiv…

Pumps industry says its Euro proposal could boost electricity savings 600%
Added: 14 Jan 2020
European pumps manufacturers are pressing the EU to adopt their proposals for a new directive they …

BVAA chief Findlay is new Severn Glocon CEO
Added: 7 Jan 2020
British Valve and Actuator Association chairman Colin Findlay is the new CEO of Severn Glocon, succ…

Watson-Marlow expands international reach with Eastern Europe offices
Added: 7 Jan 2020
Watson-Marlow Fluid Technology Group (WMFTG), has launched direct sales and technical support in th…

Make UK/Santander report blows hot and cold on UK food and drink
Added: 7 Jan 2020
The food and drink sector contributed 15.9% of UK manufacturing’s total Gross Value Added (GVA), ac…

ARC's Allan wins BCAS gong for banging the drum for engineering
Added: 7 Jan 2020
Engineering evangelist Allan Crawford is the winner of the BCAS Rogers Knight Award for his years o…

Charles honours the GPS Four at Buckingham Palace
Added: 10 Dec 2019
Four individuals who played a key part in the creation of GPS have been awarded the 2019 Queen Eliz…