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Female engineering record to mark new college year
Added: 9 Oct 2018
Scotland’s Forth Valley Engineering College is celebrating record numbers of women starting enginee…
Report warns most UK firms failing to plan for change
Added: 9 Oct 2018
Fewer than one in seven UK firms surveyed have placed future proofing their business top of their a…
Unilever and Liverpool University pair for £81 million materials hub
Added: 8 Oct 2018
President of the Royal Society and Nobel laureate Sir Venki Ramakrishnan has officially opened Live…
‘City could learn from manufacturers about accessing innovation funds’
Added: 1 Oct 2018
Financial and insurance companies should follow the example of manufacturers in accessing funds for…
Brexit a growing influence on UK firms’ decision to delay investment increases
Added: 1 Oct 2018
The UK’s low productivity performance is likely to dip further as British businesses withhold inves…
Minister co-chairs first meeting of business leaders for digital task force
Added: 28 Sep 2018
Business Secretary Greg Clark has co-chaired the first meeting of the Made Smarter Commission to di…
Half of UK firms ‘have no plan for obsolete equipment’
Added: 24 Sep 2018
More than half the UK companies surveyed in a new report say they have no plan for obsolete equipme…
AxFlow continues global expansion with Australia/NZ acquisition
Added: 21 Sep 2018
AxFlow, the multi-sector fluid handling and pumps company, has gained a foothold in Australia and N…
Cola double win for FDF awards engineers
Added: 21 Sep 2018
Cola manufacturers Pepsi and Coca-Cola shared the honours as two of their employees won in the engi…
Kumar Fellowship winner to advise Parliament on chemical weapons
Added: 18 Sep 2018
Postgraduate engineer Jennifer Spragg is to advise Parliament on chemical weapons issues after winn…
CTOs worldwide say CX is now the No 1 priority for QA
Added: 18 Sep 2018
Customer experience is now the priority factor for quality assurance (QA) executives, suggests one …
EEF launches interactive game to promote workplace health and safety
Added: 18 Sep 2018
Manufacturing industry organisation the EEF is harnessing interactive media in a bid to spread the …
Sleaford parent company claims spice facility ‘a global first’
Added: 17 Sep 2018
Sleaford Quality Foods is claiming its parent company’s mammoth new processing facility will provid…
Deadline approaches for process industries’ photo competitions
Added: 17 Sep 2018
Entrants for one of manufacturing’s leading creative awards, The EEF Manufacturing Photography Comp…
Engineering degrees dominate top earning graduate jobs
Added: 17 Sep 2018
Engineers dominate the list of top earning graduate roles in the UK, according to The Sunday Times’…
Manufacturer survey shows concern mounting over Brexit no-deal
Added: 11 Sep 2018
More than four out of five UK industrial product manufacturers surveyed want Britain to continue re…
Aim later to recruit more female engineers, says report
Added: 11 Sep 2018
New Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) research suggests the key to recruiting more young…
Fatberg fighters face opposition from baby wipers
Added: 11 Sep 2018
Process industry leaders in the waste water and sewage sectors’ efforts to secure tougher laws desi…
UK firms dominate IChemE process safety shortlist
Added: 10 Sep 2018
The UK offices of AstraZeneca, Esso, Fluor and Sellafield, together with trade organisation the Che…
Dyson winners’ invention revolutionises urban wind power
Added: 5 Sep 2018
Two Lancaster University students have won the 2018 UK James Dyson Award for their revolutionary tu…
