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Tech spin-out targets thin film market potential

Added: 24 Aug 2022

A new Scottish university-inspired venture is combining academic and commercial know how to target …

ONS figures spell problems for manufacturing pay

Added: 22 Aug 2022

Latest Office of National Statistics (ONS) employment details suggest manufacturing is performing a…

Biopharma boost

Biopharma struggles to keep up with process industry digitalisation

Added: 22 Aug 2022

Biopharmaceutical companies in the UK reveal wide variety in their adoption of digitalisation accor…

Siemens hits carbon deadline eight years early

Added: 22 Aug 2022

Siemens has beaten its target to achieve carbon neutrality for its Congleton factory by nearly a de…

Schaeffler to cut 4k jobs in major ‘transformation’ scheme

Schaeffler purchase heralds drive for growth in linear tech 

Added: 10 Aug 2022

Schaeffler has signed an agreement to acquire global manufacturer and supplier of linear technology…

Businesses urged to enter Innovate UK competition as deadline looms

Added: 10 Aug 2022

Process companies are being invited to take part in an Innovate UK programme designed to boost comp…

Award-winning NMITE chief to quit next month

Added: 10 Aug 2022

The high-profile president and chief executive of NMITE, the New Model Institute for Technology and…

Lorien confirms new MD

Added: 10 Aug 2022

Phil Colquhoun has been appointed as the new managing director at Lorien Engineering Solutions.

Antipodean collaboration to kick cybercrime off shop floor

Added: 26 Jul 2022

Technology and manufacturing innovators from the UK and Australia are creating a map of security ri…

digital factory

Made Smarter highlights need for manufacturers’ digital drive

Added: 26 Jul 2022

The organisation set up to boost manufacturers’ take up of digital tools is urging small to medium …

Supply chain issues ‘fuelling multiple pressure-points for manufacturers’

Added: 26 Jul 2022

Nearly four in 10 medium sized UK firms suffered supply chain problems in the last year, states a r…

Aniline breakthrough promises cleaner, greener production

Added: 24 Jul 2022

A ‘cleaner, greener’ method of producing anilines – frequently used in the production of manufactur…

Quanta’s dialysis system wins 2022 MacRobert Award

Added: 13 Jul 2022

Quanta Dialysis Technologies’ compact dialysis machine that helped revolutionise kidney treatment h…

UK launches first centre to boost critical materials supply chains

Added: 10 Jul 2022

Britain’s inaugural data centre for critical material supply has been launched at the British Geolo…

Search on for successor as IET interim president takes over

Added: 10 Jul 2022

Interim Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) chief executive and secretary Ed Almond has…

Nuclear atom

Rolls-Royce unveils nuclear SMR site shortlist

Added: 10 Jul 2022

Six areas in the north of England, East Midlands and Wales are in the running to house Roll-Royce’s…

IET unveils six finalists for prestigious Harvey research prize

Added: 28 Jun 2022

Six leading figures in research engineering have made the shortlist for one of the world’s most pre…

Senseye acquisition boosts Siemens’ predictive presence 

Added: 28 Jun 2022

Southampton-based AI solutions provider Senseye has been bought by Siemens, in a move that will fur…

Carlsberg seals deal for consumer test of PEF bottles

Added: 28 Jun 2022

Brewing giant Carlsberg has signed a deal with a renewable chemistry company to trial the use of PE…

COP president Sharma hails Africa cold chain initiative

Added: 26 Jun 2022

Cabinet minister and COP26 president Alok Sharma has voiced his support for a UK-backed African ini…