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COP president Sharma hails Africa cold chain initiative
Added: 26 Jun 2022
Cabinet minister and COP26 president Alok Sharma has voiced his support for a UK-backed African ini…

Digital Process Manufacturing Centre targets Scotland process leaders
Added: 13 Jun 2022
The National Manufacturing Institute Scotland (NMIS) Group, will open a new technology centre in Ay…

New visa rules ‘create door to global manufacturing talent’ claim
Added: 31 May 2022
Two newly introduced work permit routes could help allow employees of overseas businesses to work i…

Appointments: New IMechE president and key roles at Schneider, BCAS, Ashtead and ABB
Added: 31 May 2022
Phil Peel has been elected as 137th President of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers as it cele…

JM pairs up for green hydrogen ambitions
Added: 29 May 2022
Johnson Matthey is to partner Enapter, a pioneer and commercial leader in electrolyser technology t…

Energy bosses expect more cyber-attacks but slow to act, warns report
Added: 20 May 2022
More than four-fifths of global professionals working in the power, renewables and oil and gas sect…

Stark Make UK/Infor supply chain survey suggests globalisation has peaked
Added: 17 May 2022
Two years of disruption to global supply chains has transformed the nature of UK manufacturing, sug…

Water and energy sector lead on resilience in uncertain times
Added: 17 May 2022
A new index of UK industrial sectors’ resilience to economic disruption has cited the water industr…

UK companies attract nearly one fifth of Europe’s total investment in cleantech
Added: 17 May 2022
The UK has established itself as a leading nation in so-called ‘cleantech’ in a record year for the…

Demand for silicon pressure instrumentation prompts Endress+Hauser €12 mill expansion
Added: 4 May 2022
Endress+Hauser has boosted its silicon pressure sensor capacity by doubling its floor space availab…

Process Engineering LinkedIn site surpasses 15k with global network
Added: 20 Apr 2022
Process Engineering’s LinkedIn platform has surpassed the 15,000 follower mark, fuelled by a surge …

National associations herald start of UK-Canada free trade negotiations
Added: 19 Apr 2022
The national trade associations representing manufacturers in Canada and the United Kingdom have ap…
‘Three in four manufacturers held back by disconnected data’
Added: 4 Apr 2022
An independent survey of 1,030 UK-based industrial firms reveals a total of 74% of respondents empl…

Former business secretary Hutton is new Make UK chair
Added: 1 Apr 2022
Manufacturers’ association Make UK has announced that the one time business secretary Lord Hutton w…

NMITE chief attains place in IET pantheon of engineers
Added: 31 Mar 2022
President and chief executive of the New Model Institute for Technology and Engineering (NMITE), El…

Multimillion pound UAE sustainability awards open for 2023
Added: 24 Mar 2022
The £2.2 million Zayed Sustainability Prize, the UAE's global award for recognising organisations a…

Chancellor warned pre-Statement: don’t alter R&D credit scheme
Added: 23 Mar 2022
As Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s Spring Statement is being delivered, UK industry is braced for the effe…

Work starts on UK’s largest aluminium packaging site
Added: 22 Mar 2022
Global packaging leader, the US Ball Corporation, has begun work on what will be the largest alumin…

Schaeffler points to growth around the globe
Added: 22 Mar 2022
Global industrial supplier Schaeffler’s results for 2021 reveal revenue for the period amounted to …

Women entrants help offset lockdown fall in UK engineer numbers
Added: 8 Mar 2022
The number of women in engineering jobs between 2010 and 2021 increased from 562,000 to 936,000 – a…