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Heritage Award for Watt’s surviving historic Dundee engine

Added: 2 Sep 2019

The Institution of Mechanical Engineers has presented its Engineering Heritage Award to one of only…

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Nearly 40 key bodies back new engineering manifesto demands

Added: 28 Aug 2019

The body representing key professional organisations and almost half a million UK engineers, has pu…

Environment Agency and utilities under attack for ‘open sewer’ rivers

Added: 27 Aug 2019

The Environment Agency and utility companies have come under increased criticism over the state of …

New Pump Industry Awards promise nominations boost for anniversary year

Added: 27 Aug 2019

The Pump Industry Awards is braced for even more nominations to mark its 20th anniversary next year…

Manufacturers report turnover fall and recruitment squeeze, claims survey

Added: 27 Aug 2019

UK manufacturers are developing their own workforces to counter a chronic shortage of suitable recr…

Xylem salute to Whaley Bridge flood emergency team

Added: 20 Aug 2019

Xylem UK chief Jason Howlett has congratulated his staff for their part in helping to prevent the c…

Queen’s Belfast offers free renewable energy testing

Added: 19 Aug 2019

Energy and other companies will be able to access one of the most advanced testing equipment and an…

North West hatches scheme for ‘smart’ eggs and a digital-led boom 

Added: 19 Aug 2019

A company planning to use Big Data and analytics to produce more efficient and happier egg-laying h…

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First UK training course for fast-growing industrial drones market

Added: 19 Aug 2019

The Engineering Construction Industry Training Board (ECITB) has launched the UK’s first training c…

Peel deal creates £130 million plastic-waste-for-hydrogen solution

Added: 13 Aug 2019

Eleven waste-plastic-to-hydrogen facilities are to be created across the UK in a new agreement betw…

ABB secures key Central Asian digital refinery project

Added: 12 Aug 2019

Global technology leader ABB is to play a strategic role in the transformation of Central Asia’s ma…

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Assystem’s Fouin becomes first female to chair Nuclear Institute in North East

Added: 12 Aug 2019

Global engineering organisation Assystem has announced that its senior mechanical engineer has been…

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It's not only in life that engineers avoid the limelight

Added: 12 Aug 2019

Engineers’ long acknowledged habit of being overly modest about their achievements appears to stay …

New international award to honour memory of pioneering BSC founder

Added: 30 Jul 2019

British Safety Council founder the late James Tye is to be commemorated in one of three new categor…

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Labour’s anti-fracking stance will boost emissions, claims UKOOG

Added: 30 Jul 2019

UK Onshore Oil and Gas (UKOOG) chief executive Ken Cronin has accused the Labour Party of ‘wanting …

Schneider joins world cybersecurity watchdog

Added: 30 Jul 2019

Schneider Electric has become a founder member of the new Global Cybersecurity Alliance formed by t…

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UCL joins list of universities offering degree apprenticeships

Added: 30 Jul 2019

University College London has joined the growing list of British universities offering degree appre…

Only one in 20 manufacturers surveyed are happy with apprenticeship levy

Added: 30 Jul 2019

A survey by manufacturers’ organisation Make UK has revealed that 95% of respondents who expressed …

Chemical sector urges Johnson to deliver on exports and manufacturing growth

Added: 24 Jul 2019

A leading chemical sector organisation has urged new prime minister Boris Johnson to start deliveri…

Racing ace Button says time to get women engineers in the fast lane

Added: 23 Jul 2019

Formula 1 driver Jenson Button has used his public profile to support Santander UK’s inaugural STEM…