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Fracking fluid an 'outstanding achievement'

Non-toxic fracking fluid scoops award

Added: 10 Nov 2015

An energy-saving, non-toxic hydraulic fracturing (fracking) fluid was declared the overall winner a…

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Cogent extends safety strategy

Added: 10 Nov 2015

Industry body Cogent Skills has updated its process safety management competence programme.

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Amec Foster inks graphene deal

Added: 9 Nov 2015

Amec Foster Wheeler has been appointed the preferred engineering partner to Applied Graphene Materi…

Forty-nine per cent of industry representatives claim skills shortages are their main barrier to gro

Engineering tops career poll

Added: 9 Nov 2015

More people would encourage a young person to become an engineer than a doctor, accountant or banke…

Saltend stench tackled with £30m investment

Utility combats odour issues

Added: 9 Nov 2015

Yorkshire Water has developed a £30 million action plan to tackle odours from its Saltend wastewate…

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Teesside waste energy plant halted

Added: 5 Nov 2015

Work on the Tees Valley 2 (TV2) renewable energy plant has been suspended.

South West Water treatment works

South West Water hit with sewage fine

Added: 4 Nov 2015

South West Water was fined £214,000 by Plymouth Crown Court last week after sewage leaked into the …

Lab to manufacturing research scheme

Innovation verdict presents mixed bag

Added: 2 Nov 2015

Support for innovation in the UK could be better, according to one industry report.

Tata Steel Scunthorpe works

EU agrees to crisis steel meeting

Added: 30 Oct 2015

EU ministers have agreed to hold an emergency meeting on the UK steel crisis following an appeal fr…

Sabic process plant

Urgent call to meet energy ‘trilemma’

Added: 30 Oct 2015

Time is running out for the government to make crucial planning decisions on the UK’s energy ‘trile…

SSE Ferrybridge coal power station

Multifuel power plant wins approval

Added: 28 Oct 2015

A second multifuel power station situated at Ferrybridge, West Yorkshire has been approved for cons…

Food and drink manufacturing

Food workshop envisions future

Added: 28 Oct 2015

The Food and Drink Federation (FDF) will host a workshop next month that aims to deliver a step-cha…

New technique pays way to graphene printing

Graphene printing gets speed boost

Added: 27 Oct 2015

A team of chemical engineers from Cambridge University has developed a method for printing electron…

Manufacturing Barometer

Manufacturing hinders UK growth

Added: 27 Oct 2015

The UK economy grew between July and September despite a lack of manufacturing production, statisti…

Emerson makes predictive power play

Emerson makes predictive power play

Added: 26 Oct 2015

Emerson has acquired US power protection supplier IntelliSAW, as it seeks to expand its stable of c…

Honeywell expands chemicals footprint

Honeywell expands chemicals footprint

Added: 23 Oct 2015

Honeywell has bought Sigma-Aldrich’s research chemicals business in a bid to expand its portfolio o…

Exiling excellence

Graduate skills causing concern

Added: 22 Oct 2015

The majority of employers in the UK are unsatisfied with graduates, a new report suggests.

EDF Hinkley Point C nuclear power wide

UK poised for nuclear future

Added: 21 Oct 2015

Hinkley Point C will go ahead after EDF Energy and China General Nuclear Corporation (CGN) confirm …

Keady power station

Keadby power station to reopen

Added: 20 Oct 2015

Energy provider SSE has announced it will bring its 735MW gas-fired power station at Keadby, North …

Water research, Sheffield University lab

UK water research gets £3.9m boost

Added: 20 Oct 2015

A new £3.9million research project has been established to help meet the UK’s future needs for a cl…