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Nuclear police training facility to open at Sellafield
Added: 18 May 2016
Construction of a new £39 million nuclear training centre has been given the green light this week.…
McCain fined £800k for worker injury
Added: 18 May 2016
McCain Foods has been fined £800,000 for safety failings after an employee at its facility based in…
ABB rolls out safety systems software
Added: 17 May 2016
From its newly-developed Learning Centre in Cambridgeshire, ABB yesterday launched a number of init…
Wyke Farms scores Carbon Trust trifecta
Added: 16 May 2016
Wyke Farms has been granted triple certification to the Carbon Trust Standard for improving environ…
UK Continental Shelf offers ‘vast’ CO2 storage capacity
Added: 12 May 2016
There are no major technical hurdles to storing industrial scale CO2 offshore in the UK, according …
Chemicals demand ‘bucks’ industry slump
Added: 11 May 2016
The Chemical Industry Association (CIA) says its members have made a strong start to the year, with…
Nuclear industry seeks clean up solutions
Added: 10 May 2016
The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) has awarded several consortia £12 million worth of rese…
Government pledges £80m for national colleges
Added: 9 May 2016
The government has today announced plans to fund five National Colleges to guarantee the UK has a s…
SMEs in the spotlight for £15m manufacturing fund
Added: 9 May 2016
Innovate UK has launched a £15 million competition to encourage “revolutionary” technologies and pr…
PwC establishes drones division
Added: 9 May 2016
Professional services company PwC has set up a ‘global centre of excellence’ for drone use in indus…
Manufacturers ‘vulnerable’ to hacking
Added: 9 May 2016
EEF, the manufacturers’ organisation, has urged companies in the UK to step up their cyber security…
Scientists shed new light on food adulteration
Added: 5 May 2016
Food researchers in the UK have demonstrated the feasibility of using imaging techniques as an alte…
CBI outlines manufacturing modernisation plan
Added: 5 May 2016
The Confederation of British Industry (CBI) is calling on manufacturers and government to join forc…
VTT flirts with 3D food printing
Added: 4 May 2016
A group of scientists at the VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland (VTT) is attempting to transf…
Yorkshire Water ordered to pay record £1.1m fine
Added: 4 May 2016
Yorkshire Water was fined £1.1million last week for a pump failure in 2013 that caused pollution to…
EEF calls for apprenticeship levy delay
Added: 4 May 2016
Manufacturers’ organisation EEF has called on the government to delay the rollout of its Apprentice…
New treatment for Argent Energy plant
Added: 3 May 2016
A Cheshire-based energy plant built to process waste fats, oils and greases (FOG) for biodiesel, is…
Veolia ramps up wastewater solutions
Added: 3 May 2016
Veolia Water Technologies has extended its range of heat pump vacuum evaporators, targeting smaller…
Bioplastic packaging ‘extends’ shelf life
Added: 3 May 2016
A team of researchers has developed plant-based bioplastic packaging that is designed to extend the…
Fracking ‘unlikely’ to contaminate water
Added: 29 Apr 2016
A study of the abandoned Selby coalfield in Yorkshire suggests fracking is unlikely to pose a pollu…
