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Election mandate will provide greater certainty for Brexit, says EEF
Added: 18 Apr 2017
Prime minister Theresa May’s announcement of a snap general election for 8 June has received an ear…
Food manufacturer Moy Park fined £200k for engineer laceration
Added: 17 Apr 2017
Food manufacturer Moy Park has been fined £200,000 following an incident in which an engineer suffe…
Fracking ‘not compatible’ with 'preference' for renewable energy, study finds
Added: 11 Apr 2017
Research conducted by Cardiff University suggests fracking is ‘not compatible’ with public preferen…
Duke of York opens manufacturing research centre at Sheffield University
Added: 10 Apr 2017
The Duke of York has today (10 April) opened a collaborative manufacturing research facility at the…
Cadbury launch welcomed as post-Brexit investment in UK food and drink
Added: 10 Apr 2017
Cadbury owner Mondelēz International has sealed its commitment to the UK food and drink industry wi…
Wild Geese Group secures an OPITO safety first
Added: 10 Apr 2017
Training provider Wild Geese Group has become the first company to complete OPITO-approved plant ma…
Essar Oil fined £1.65m for refinery explosion
Added: 6 Apr 2017
Oil and gas firm Essar Oil has been fined £1.65 million following an explosion at its Ellesmere Por…
TUV SUD launches world-leading multiphase flow test facility in Scotland
Added: 5 Apr 2017
Major investment by TUV SUD has enabled the launch of a £16 million Centre of Excellence for subsea…
IMechE: Industry and schools must help boost attitudes to apprenticeships
Added: 5 Apr 2017
The Government must overcome public perception that apprenticeships are a poor alternative to acade…
Schools engineering careers guide shifts 32k copies in a fortnight
Added: 3 Apr 2017
EngineeringUK’s schools guide to STEM career opportunities over the next decade has had a flood of …
Scuoler’s EEF stepdown leaves second key process organisation seeking new leader
Added: 3 Apr 2017
Terry Scuoler’s announcement that he will step down as chief executive of the EEF has left a second…
BP sells Forties pipeline business to Ineos for £200m
Added: 3 Apr 2017
Oil and gas giant BP has sold its entire Forties pipeline business to chemical manufacturer Ineos f…
Article 50: Chemical bodies call for ‘certainty’ as Brexit negotiations begin
Added: 29 Mar 2017
Cefic and the Chemical Industry Association have called for pragmatism ahead of Brexit negotiations…
Hurricane claims ‘largest’ oilfield discovery on UKCS
Added: 27 Mar 2017
Oil exploration firm Hurricane Energy has made what it claims is the "largest undeveloped discovery…
HazardEx honours BPE for dust explosion toolkit
Added: 27 Mar 2017
Chemical and biochemical engineering design firm BPE has won the HazardEx Contribution to Safety aw…
EEF: 'No deal' Brexit will harm manufacturing
Added: 27 Mar 2017
Manufacturers organisation the EEF delivered a warning to prime minister Theresa May that a ‘no dea…
UK digital tech investment outstrips Germany and France combined
Added: 27 Mar 2017
Investment in the UK digital technological sector since 2011 has been 37% higher than France and Ge…
Teen engineers scoop 2017 Big Bang award for safety invention
Added: 27 Mar 2017
Two school students who created a wearable vest that predicts epileptic attacks have been awarded t…
Think tank warns Apprenticeship Levy benefits may be overestimated
Added: 27 Mar 2017
The new Apprenticeship Levy introduced in April will have less impact in regions of high unemployme…
Automata and Russell Finex among robotics programme winners
Added: 24 Mar 2017
Four British companies are among 25 winners set to receive free robotics consultancy via a scheme s…
