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Process innovators win Queen’s Awards for breakthroughs and exports

Added: 17 Sep 2019

Three process industry firms are celebrating this week being among 200 companies to receive a Queen…

Siemens puts its money where its mouth is with Digital Academy pilot launch

Added: 17 Sep 2019

Six undergraduates have won £3,000 annual sponsorship and the chance of a three months paid placeme…

Million pound eel protection screen unveiled on River Derwent

Added: 10 Sep 2019

Yorkshire Water has completed its £1million scheme has been completed to prevent eels from the Rive…

Ion Science stays on target to achieve £20 million turnover in anniversary year

Added: 10 Sep 2019

The world’s largest manufacturer of volatile organic compounds (VOC) monitors, Cambridge-based Ion …

Schaeffler supplies its largest-ever spherical plain bearing

Added: 10 Sep 2019

Schaeffler has produced the largest spherical plain bearing in the company’s history  – a monster w…

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Financial jargon a ‘brake on manufacturing growth’

Added: 10 Sep 2019

Small to medium sized manufacturing enterprises are missing out on access to better finance because…

Company claims another first for automated gas filling plants

Added: 3 Sep 2019

The company that created the first full automated gas filling plant has launched a rival site now b…

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Nominations launch for IChemE 2020 medals including new Clean Energy award

Added: 2 Sep 2019

The Institution of Chemical Engineers has added a Clean Energy category to its annual array of meda…

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Manufacturing unprepared for supply chain legal changes, warns consultancy

Added: 2 Sep 2019

Nearly two thirds of engineering, manufacturing and tech business responding to a survey say they a…

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…

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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…

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…

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…