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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…

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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…

Company claims a UK first with lead-free galvanising

Added: 18 Feb 2019

Leading corrosion protection firm Wedge Group Galvanising is celebrating the end of its 10-year pro…

If you want to get ahead, be a chemical engineer…

Added: 15 Feb 2019

Chemical engineering provides a significant boost to social mobility, according to a survey of youn…

Voting opens as PIA awards finalists revealed

Added: 14 Feb 2019

Nearly 40 nominees have been shortlisted for this year’s Pump Industry Awards, with the largest num…

Swansea to lead multimillion steel research initiative

Added: 12 Feb 2019

Wales is to host a £35 million new initiative between research bodies, universities and business to…

Parliamentary water group chair calls for end to five-year focus

Added: 12 Feb 2019

The chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Water Group has criticised the focus on five-year plans, s…

British Safety Council awards 500-plus global winners

Added: 11 Feb 2019

More than 500 organisations worldwide have been honoured in the British Safety Council’s Internatio…

Drax Power Plant

Minister hails Drax carbon capture breakthrough

Added: 11 Feb 2019

Energy minister Claire Perry said the new Drax Power station’s pilot bioenergy carbon capture and s…

Revolutionary’s influence on UK manufacturing unbroken 140 years on

Added: 11 Feb 2019

The company which helped revolutionise manufacturing with the invention of the bush-roller chain th…

Landmark BPMA agreement with Lancaster University

Added: 7 Feb 2019

British Pump Manufacturers Association (BPMA) representatives have signed a co-operation agreement …