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HVMC’s million pound push for 4.0 product testing

Added: 7 Mar 2023

Manufacturing hub the High Value Manufacturing Catapult has launched a near-million pound project t…

Survey says 85% of non-BSIF registered PPE fails to meet criteria

Added: 6 Mar 2023

The British Safety Industry Federation (BSIF) is urging businesses to use only suppliers registered…

UKAEA funds 18 organisations to help make fusion reality

Added: 3 Mar 2023

The United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) has awarded feasibility contracts for 18 organis…

Process roundup: Thales, Confederation of British Metalforming, Sparck Technologies, MHA

Added: 3 Mar 2023

Global company Thales announced it will be hiring 12,000 new employees internationally, including m…

Sickness absences and pay settlements rising, says Make UK

Added: 2 Mar 2023

Sickness absence in the country’s manufacturing industry rose in 2022 for the first time in more th…

Strohm scales up operations as it completes plant expansion and plans recruitment drive

Added: 22 Feb 2023

Strohm, the world’s first  producer of Thermoplastic Composite Pipes (TCP), has completed its plant…

Process roundup: Bühler, Celeros, AEMT, Tesvolt, Sulzer and more

Added: 20 Feb 2023

An update on some of the latest process industry and manufacturing developments including new build…

Pay disparity likely to hinder companies' manufacturing staff search says RSM UK

Added: 16 Feb 2023

UK industry must tackle ongoing concerns over the lack of availability of skilled labour, warns Mik…

Tories and Labour out in force for Make UK national conference

Added: 15 Feb 2023

BEIS minister Nusrat Ghani and Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves are among the headline speakers for …

Endress+Hauser celebrates strong growth in sales ahead of 70th anniversary

Added: 15 Feb 2023

Measurement and automation tech specialist Endress+Hauser increased its consolidated sales by almos…

Make UK Manufacturer of the Year celebrates hat trick of wins

Added: 15 Feb 2023

Notts-based Swiftool Precision Engineering walked away with a hat trick of wins after scooping Manu…

Demand to Sunak for manufacturing minister and new industrial strategy

Added: 14 Feb 2023

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak must ensure the Government urgently introduces a new industrial strategy…

Geopolitics shows biggest increase as supply chain disruptor but fails to make Top 10

Added: 13 Feb 2023

Supply chain disruptions caused by geopolitical instability showed a massive increase during 2022, …

Eleanor’s pollution fighting backpack wins IET competition

Added: 10 Feb 2023

Huddersfield  twelve-year-old Eleanor Wood’s pollution filtering backpack has won her the Instituti…

Appointments updates from the process sectors

Added: 10 Feb 2023

A selection of some of the recent appointments across the various process sectors...

Process business news briefs update...

Added: 10 Feb 2023

Contracts, appointments, partnerships, new builds and refurbishments from the likes of Schneider El…

Teesside process industry cluster CCS

UK industrial clusters gain from £6 mill award’s raft of decarbonisation projects

Added: 9 Feb 2023

Britain’s largest industrial clusters are the focus of a £6 million award to accelerate decarbonisa…

Sunak shuffle: strategic sense or rearranging the deckchairs?

Added: 8 Feb 2023

From a political perspective, prime minister Rishi Sunak’s predicted mini-reshuffle is either far s…

QE Prize for Engineering goes to record breaking energy pioneers

Added: 8 Feb 2023

The 2023 Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering has been shared between four academics for their dev…

New academy offers utilities employees digital training

Added: 8 Feb 2023

UK Power Networks has launched a new Digital Academy for the utilities sector offering up to 400 sp…