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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…

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…

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…
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…

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…

Engineering applicants on the rise in second quarter
Added: 23 Jul 2019
Summer may be traditionally a bad time for hiring but independent jobs board CV-Library claims that…

AxFlow's acquisition provides it with a foothold in Irish valves market
Added: 23 Jul 2019
AxFlow’s Irish subsidiary has acquired the Carlow-based Irish Pumps & Valves Limited, a major suppl…

Shell’s AM centre wins Lloyd’s coveted ‘badge of excellence’
Added: 17 Jul 2019
Lloyd’s Register has awarded a prestigious best practice qualification to Shell’s groundbreaking 3D…

Tomlinson celebrates its 100th year with monthly ‘centuries’ for good causes
Added: 16 Jul 2019
Teesside pump distributor and manufacturer Tomlinson Hall marked its 100th year in business with a …

Assytem's ASCO acquisition heralds French expansion
Added: 12 Jul 2019
Blackburn-based Assystem, now the world’s third largest nuclear engineering organisation has acquir…

Wanner’s Hydra-Cell hard sell reaps massive growth dividends
Added: 11 Jul 2019
Wanner International says it has recorded an average annual organic growth rate of over 14% over th…

EU directive's £17 million threat 'has put cyber security on the process agenda'
Added: 10 Jul 2019
The threat of massive multi-million pound fines for failing to safeguard against cyber security ris…

MP welcomes new food training facility as apprentice capacity doubles at site
Added: 10 Jul 2019
Redditch MP Rachel Maclean officially opened engineering training provider MGTS’s purpose-built fac…