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Oil storage firm fined £100k after chemical explosion
Added: 26 Sep 2017
Oil storage firm ESL Fuels has been fined £100,000 after contractors cut into a sealed pipe causing…
Half of British public would support coal plants with CCS, survey finds
Added: 25 Sep 2017
Half of the British public would support the construction of new coal and gas-fired power plants if…
ABB buys GE Industrial Solutions for $2.6 billion
Added: 25 Sep 2017
Engineering giant ABB has acquired GE Industrial Solutions for $2.6 billion (£1.92bn), thereby stre…
Unions ‘cautiously welcome’ Tata Steel merger but demand assurances for staff
Added: 20 Sep 2017
UK trade unions have “cautiously welcomed” the planned merger between Tata Steel and Thyssenkrupp, …
French environmental testing group buys PARC laboratory
Added: 20 Sep 2017
UK environmental testing laboratory PARC Ltd (Product Assessment and Reliability Centre) has been b…
Stamps honour legendary safety engineer John C Taylor’s inventions
Added: 19 Sep 2017
The inventor of the kettle switch used a billion times a day worldwide has been honoured with a ser…
Labrador secures £1m investment for smart energy device
Added: 19 Sep 2017
Smart energy company Labrador has announced it has raised in excess of £1 million from more than 30…
Sheffield Uni AMRC deal creates manufacturing centre in Oman
Added: 19 Sep 2017
The University of Sheffield’s Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre has launched a project with Om…
Wood Group and Amec Foster Wheeler to merge following CMA approval
Added: 13 Sep 2017
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has approved plans for Wood Group and Amec Foster Wheel…
Sellafield GMB members set strike date for 27 September
Added: 12 Sep 2017
Sellafield nuclear site's 3,000 GMB union members have announced their 24 hour strike action will b…
UK Research and Innovation hires CFO to help deliver UK industrial strategy
Added: 10 Sep 2017
UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) has appointed Ian Kenyon to the newly created role of chief finan…
Machine learning mobile microscope measures air quality
Added: 10 Sep 2017
Researchers at UCLA have developed what they say is a cost-effective mobile microscope designed to …
Science collaboration with EU ‘crucial’ after Brexit, says David Davis
Added: 6 Sep 2017
Brexit secretary David Davis said it is “crucial” the UK collaborates with its European partners on…
‘Milestone’ certification of first AM-produced part for oil and gas sector
Added: 6 Sep 2017
Lloyd’s Register has certified the first part to be produced through additive manufacturing for the…
GMB members vote for Sellafield strike action
Added: 4 Sep 2017
More than three quarters of GMB members employed at the Sellafield nuclear site in Cumbria have vot…
EEF picks top defence and trade civil servant to succeed Scuoler
Added: 4 Sep 2017
Manufacturers’ association the EEF has appointed a top civil servant at the Department for Internat…
OPITO commissions major survey on North Sea labour market
Added: 4 Sep 2017
Robert Gordon University’s Oil and Gas Institute will carry out a major analysis of the UK Continen…
Sellafield scoops nine industry awards for ‘unrelenting focus on safety’
Added: 25 Aug 2017
Sellafield nuclear facility has been awarded nine safety gongs by the Royal Society for the Prevent…
Bristol Uni spin-off wins IMechE investment for corrosion sensor
Added: 23 Aug 2017
The Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) has invested money through its Stephenson Fund in …
Amec Foster Wheeler secures key nuclear waste contracts worth £4 million
Added: 23 Aug 2017
Amec Foster Wheeler has won two contracts worth £4 million from LLW Repository, the company respons…
