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Hydro “making progress” after attack as experts call for more cyber cooperation

Added: 19 Mar 2019

Renewable energy and aluminium supplier Norsk Hydro, whose holdings include several UK sites, said …

Electronics drives manufacturing growth says Make UK

Added: 19 Mar 2019

Britain’s electronics sector fuelled nearly two thirds of the country’s manufacturing growth last y…

Bara robotics

SAS invests £750 million in AI over three years

Added: 19 Mar 2019

SAS has committed to invest the equivalent of $1 billion (£750 million) in artificial intelligence …

Babcock launches £2.4 million composite test facility with Edinburgh university

Added: 19 Mar 2019

Babcock international is partnering the University of Edinburgh to launch a £2.4 million engineerin…

Non-Destructive Testing apprenticeships win national recognition

Added: 19 Mar 2019

Skills Training UK has been shortlisted for its pioneering work in the development of non-destructi…

UK European patent applications leap for fifth year, thanks to pharma and pumps

Added: 12 Mar 2019

The number of European patent applications from UK firms and inventors has increased for the fifth …

Kumar award-wining postgrad briefs MPs on chemical threat

Added: 12 Mar 2019

Jeni Spragg, the Leeds university winner of the Ashok Kumar Fellowship, has presented her report on…

BP chemicals plant facility

Lords' concern for Government lack of clarity over chemicals risk assessment

Added: 12 Mar 2019

Chair of the House of Lords EU Energy and Environment Sub-Committee, Lord Teverson has said it is “…

Cuadrilla shale site

UKOOG raises its estimate for British shale yields

Added: 12 Mar 2019

UK Onshore Oil and Gas (UKOOG) has claimed that the well production capacity from UK shale is more …

Make UK launches cyber protection pilot for members

Added: 11 Mar 2019

Manufacturers’ association Make UK has signed a partnership with cyber security experts Vauban Grou…

UK manufacturing celebrates engineering apprentices as NAO releases damning Levy report

Added: 6 Mar 2019

As manufacturing firms and trainers are marking National Apprenticeship Week by celebrating the UK'…

Pumps company is export champion twice over 

Added: 4 Mar 2019

North East pumps manufacturer Tomlinson Hall has been named a Northern Powerhouse export champion f…

Yorkshire Water puts its toe in the water for transparency

Added: 4 Mar 2019

Utility company Yorkshire Water has released details of its ethnic pay gap and vowed to publish mos…

Food

Lords to quiz minister and FSA on post-Brexit food safety

Added: 4 Mar 2019

Peers on the House of Lords EU Energy and Environment sub-committee will quiz a government minister…

INEOS announces £1 billion investment in UK oil and petrochemicals

Added: 27 Feb 2019

INEOS has announced a slew of investments in the British process industries totalling more than £1 …

Funders seek Brexit opportunity from process industries

Added: 26 Feb 2019

A leading SME finance platform claims that UK energy companies are likely to benefit from a growth …

Northern Industrial’s hires herald further recruitment drive

Added: 26 Feb 2019

Industrial automation spare parts and repair supplier Northern Industrial announced the first leg o…

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

Scottish lifesciences secure record equity

Added: 26 Feb 2019

Scotland’s life sciences companies raised £85 million of equity investment during the last 12 month…

EEF changes name to Make UK then delivers a Brexit broadside

Added: 20 Feb 2019

Manufacturers’ association the EEF announced a historic change of name – rebranding itself Make UK …

Royal Academy of Engineering trustees nominate McDonald for first Scottish president

Added: 18 Feb 2019

University of Strathclyde principal and vice-chancellor professor Jim McDonald has been nominated f…