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PE roundup 18 April: output, appointments, orders, certification, awards

Added: 18 Apr 2023

Lontra’s new 60,000sq ft smart factory manufacturing centre in Doncaster (see pic) has manufactured…

#CHEMUK 2023: CIA innovation chief to outline impact of 4.0 on the industrial lab

Added: 17 Apr 2023

Chemical Industries Association (CIA) Head of Events and Innovation Mike Lancaster has been reveale…

Quantum research on show

Drone pioneer flies a kite for targeted spend on commercialised R&D

Added: 29 Mar 2023

UK drone company chief Robert Garbett has accused Government funded organisations of wasting invest…

PE roundup 27 March: BCAS, Schneider Electric, Avantium, Engineering UK, Wood, AMRC

Added: 27 Mar 2023

Digital collaboration, key appointments, contracts, new builds, anniversaries, contracts... process…

Process roundup: Endress+Hauser, TÜV SÜD, Unibloc, Siemens, MTC

Added: 9 Mar 2023

The Super Deduction Tax Break introduced in April 2021 to help kickstart the post-Covid economy and…

HVMC’s million pound push for 4.0 product testing

Added: 7 Mar 2023

Manufacturing hub the High Value Manufacturing Catapult has launched a near-million pound project t…

UKAEA funds 18 organisations to help make fusion reality

Added: 3 Mar 2023

The United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) has awarded feasibility contracts for 18 organis…

Process roundup: Thales, Confederation of British Metalforming, Sparck Technologies, MHA

Added: 3 Mar 2023

Global company Thales announced it will be hiring 12,000 new employees internationally, including m…

Process roundup: Bühler, Celeros, AEMT, Tesvolt, Sulzer and more

Added: 20 Feb 2023

An update on some of the latest process industry and manufacturing developments including new build…

Pay disparity likely to hinder companies' manufacturing staff search says RSM UK

Added: 16 Feb 2023

UK industry must tackle ongoing concerns over the lack of availability of skilled labour, warns Mik…

Endress+Hauser celebrates strong growth in sales ahead of 70th anniversary

Added: 15 Feb 2023

Measurement and automation tech specialist Endress+Hauser increased its consolidated sales by almos…

Teesside process industry cluster CCS

UK industrial clusters gain from £6 mill award’s raft of decarbonisation projects

Added: 9 Feb 2023

Britain’s largest industrial clusters are the focus of a £6 million award to accelerate decarbonisa…

Sunak shuffle: strategic sense or rearranging the deckchairs?

Added: 8 Feb 2023

From a political perspective, prime minister Rishi Sunak’s predicted mini-reshuffle is either far s…

QE Prize for Engineering goes to record breaking energy pioneers

Added: 8 Feb 2023

The 2023 Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering has been shared between four academics for their dev…

New academy offers utilities employees digital training

Added: 8 Feb 2023

UK Power Networks has launched a new Digital Academy for the utilities sector offering up to 400 sp…

Boom in entries for new project management degree apprenticeships

Added: 8 Feb 2023

Project management degree apprenticeships have increased 125% in the three years following their in…

Divert ‘wasted’ Apprenticeship Levy to plug digital skills gap says IET

Added: 6 Feb 2023

Two billion pounds of “wasted” Apprenticeship Levy payments should be diverted to engineering firms…

Heat pumps could reduce biogas carbon footprint more than a third, claims research

Added: 17 Jan 2023

Using air-source heat pumps for anaerobic digestion could slash the carbon footprint of the process…

Apprentices

Labour and Tory ex-ministers launch engineering apprenticeships inquiry

Added: 16 Jan 2023

Former Labour and Tory ministers Lords Knight and Willetts have launched an inquiry with support fr…

Clock ticking to join UK engineering greats with MacRobert Award win

Added: 16 Jan 2023

Time is running out to enter one of the most sought-after prizes in engineering, the annual MacRobe…