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NEBOSH calls on world experts for H&S careers guide

Added: 9 Mar 2020

More than 20 of the leading health and safety practitioners working in the global process industrie…

Nuclear atom

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…

Coronavirus ‘will increase demand for storage’

Added: 9 Mar 2020

The coronavirus epidemic in the Far East will increase pressure among UK businesses to remedy suppl…

Severn Trent Water

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…

Manufacturing sparks

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…

Oliver Valves wins record £10 million Middle East order

Added: 3 Mar 2020

Leading manufacturer Oliver Valves has marked its 40 years in business by winning an order in exces…

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…

YSI Life Sciences will be at IBioIC’s 2nd Annual Conference

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…

Nuclear engineers

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…

Assystem wins contract for final phase 1 design of ITER project

Added: 11 Feb 2020

Assystem, has won the contract for the final design of phase 1 as well as prototype testing for the…

The use of optical gas imaging cameras has already become a standard practice in many oil and gas co

Wood finalises sale terms for industrial services business

Added: 11 Feb 2020

John Wood Group is selling its industrial services business to technical services provider, Kaefer,…

Government announcement on free ports

Added: 11 Feb 2020

The Government has announced a consultation process for the creation of as many as 10 free ports in…

Voting set to open for finalists of Pump Industry Awards 2020

Added: 11 Feb 2020

Nearly 40 finalists in eight categories will go forward for the vote to decide the winners of the 2…

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…