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ABB Wins Power Order Worth More Than $400 Million for World’s Largest Offshore Wind Farm

Innovative technology will connect wind-generated electric power to grid Zurich, Switzerland, Sept. 18, 2007 – ABB, the leading power and automation technology group, has won...

Foster Wheeler Awarded Circulating Fluidized-Bed Steam Generator Contract in Chile by UTE CT Mejillones

Foster Wheeler Ltd. announced today that a subsidiary of its Global Power Group has been awarded a contract by the Spanish company UTE CT Mejillones, which is owned by Cobra...

Tidal Stream Power Station

E.ON and Lunar Energy are to develop a major underwater tidal stream power project off the coast of Pembrokeshire. The two companies, which in March announced their intention to...

Miniature Hybrid Stepper Motor

 New from Mclennan - Tamagawa's TS3218 miniature hybrid stepper motor is flat and small but powerful . Unique 2-phase hybrid stepper motor has very small length for use...

PMI Indicates Slow Sector Growth

The latest CIPS/NTC Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) survey has shown a loss of momentum in the manufacturing sector for October, which was “more pronounced than expected” (Rob...

Chip Maker Installs Wind Turbines To Power Plant As Part Of Sustainability Drive.

Three giant wind turbines have been installed at a UK chip factory to help cut its carbon footprint, McCain Foods has announced. The 410ft structures, which will fully up and...

The UK Plastics Market

After researching the UK Plastics Market Development and taking into account various other factors the following major conclusions can be drawn from MBD’s report. Market...

Low Carbon Accelerator Invests £2.5

Guernsey-based Low Carbon Accelerator (LCA) has invested £2.5m in Vaperma to help develop water reduction and energy efficiency technologies for bioethanol production....

Plastic Pipe Manufacturer Wins Top Honours

UK plastic pipe manufacturer JFC Plastics has won top honours at the Chartered Institution of Wastes Management (CIWM) Awards for Environmental Excellence, which recognise and...

Chemring Buys Richmond Electronics & Engineering

 Chemring Group, based in Fareham, Hampshire, has bought Richmond Electronics & Engineering from a private individual for £11m. Chemring is a...

Manufacturing Growth Eases

Credit crunch is having an effect on UK industry, says new figures, as engineering employers call on the government to ease the impact of capital gains tax on smaller firms....

Sweet Maker In Salmonella Scare

Confectioner halts production in the UK because of fears that a batch of Brazil nuts at its Leicester factory has been contaminated. But the company says none of the product had...

UK Backs Car Makers On Carbon Emissions

The EU will be urged by ministers to “look beyond the short term” and give auto manufacturers more time to develop new greener technology. Britain is to push for car...

Healthy Growth In Manufacturing Orders

Manufacturing has seen positive growth in new orders across most UK over the past three months, despite the impact of the global credit squeeze on confidence. The latest...

Satellite Images Free To Researchers

Images of the Earth's surface taken from a UK satellite are being made freely available for researchers. The images, captured by the £14m TopSat satellite, will be sent out...

Government Embarks On Skills Drive

The Government’s “British jobs for British workers” initiative has kicked off with the promise of 7.5 million skills boosting training places to be implemented over next three...

Northern Foods Sees Profit Rise

Northern Foods, the Leeds-based ready meal, sandwich and pizza manufacturer, has announced a pre-tax profit rise of 37.7 per cent. The rise to £20.1 million in the 26...

MAS Can’t Afford To Rest On Its Laurels Says Minister

Government initiatives such as MAS and the manufacturing industry as a whole can’t afford to rest on their laurels, says Stephen Timms, Minister for...

Carbon Trust fights climate change

The Carbon Trust has announced the availability of funding of bands of to £30,000 or £140,000 for trade organisations wishing to undertake carbon reduction projects....

Green Oopportunities

Business secretary, John Hutton, has called on UK manufacturers to take advantage of new opportunities in the green economy such as renewable energy and low-carbon technology....

Southampton Based Company VT Group Expand In US

Southampton-based defence and support services company VT Group is to acquire military aviation support specialists Advanced Engineering and Planning Corp (AEPCO) for $70m...

Mclennan Release New 23 And 34 Frame High-Torque Stepper Motors

Stepper motors fitted with flying leads often require elaborate and costly modification to adapt the wiring into applications, particularly where EMC, environmental protection...

Sale Of Cosmetics Factory In Wales Safeguards Jobs

Creative Outsourcing Solutions International (COSi), in Maesteg, South Wales recently announced plans to cut jobs there. However, the company now says it has been bought by...

Cheaper vs Greener

SMMT’s annual issues survey, based on feedback from over 100 industry heads, has discovered that value for money continues to eclipse value for the environment for motor...

Survey Shows UK Manufacturing Confidence

 major survey of 600 companies conducted by the EEF has suggested that the UK will continue to be the primary location for high value manufacturing for the ensuing five...

F1 Teams Up With Torotrak

Torotrak have signed a licence agreement with a second Formula One (F1) customer for their mechanical kinetic energy recovery system (KERS). The licence agreement will...

Resources Worry Manufacturers

The cost of raw materials is going to be the biggest constraint on UK manufacturing according to the Grant Thornton International Business Report on Manufacturing. The...

Engineering Managers Missing Online Opportunities

Senior managers across the engineering sector are missing easy opportunities to hone their skills, as they fail to make use of the online resources available to them. Figures...

UK Firms Do Not Know Their Carbon Footprint

As much as 99 per cent of all UK businesses do not know their carbon footprint and so lack key information for being able to reduce CO2 emissions, according to a new...

ETB worries where apprentices of the future will come from

A new report from The Engineering and Technology highlights concerns over Government targets for doubling the number of apprenticeships by 2020. The report also underlines the...

Emissions Deal Aimed At Key Sectors

Businesses in energy-intensive sectors such as cement, steel and aluminium will be asked to sign up to industry-wide pacts on cutting their greenhouse gas emissions, under plans...

Industry and arts come together in creative hothouse

Improving creativity and competitiveness among UK businesses is the focus of a new £5.5 m partnership between engineering, management, science, technology institution...

Chester Based Energetix Group Signs Energy Technology Agreement

Chester-based alternative energy company Energetix Group has, through its Genlec division, signed an agreement with E.ON UK to develop and deploy Genlec's micro combined heat and...

Petrofac Signs Agreement with Sea Production To Provide Floating Production Facility

Petrofac has signed an agreement with Sea Production, a subsidiary of Northern Offshore, to provide the Northern Producer floating production facility for use in new developments...

Turning Used Tyres Into Motor Fuel Oil

A continuous recycling process could turn the estimated 50 million used tyres that are discarded in the UK every year into oil for motor fuel.Used Tyre Distillation (UTD)...

Cheaper Solar Power

A national team of scientists led by experts at Durham University are embarking on one of the UK’s largest ever research projects into photovoltaic (PV) solar energy. The...

Lewis Wind Power To Manufacture Turbines At Arnish

Lewis Wind Power has come to an initial agreement with Edinburgh-based REpower UK to manufacture the turbine towers for the Lewis wind farm at the Arnish facility on the Isle of...

Land Rover Hybrid Concept Car

US auto giant Ford has taken the wraps off a new Land Rover hybrid concept car. The so-called LRX hybrid concept is described as a cross-coupé, and though it's 5.9in...

Undersea Cable Feasable To Distribute Energy Around UK

An undersea cable that will enable Scottish renewable energy to be distributed around the UK is viable, according to a new study by The Crown Estate. The findings, revealed...

Battery Powered

The odometer of a low emission hybrid electric test vehicle today reached 100,000 miles as the car circled a track in the UK using the power of an advanced battery developed at...

E.ON Buys West Midlands Heating Compnay CHN

E.ON has bought West Midlands-based heating services company CHN in a multi-million pound deal. Exact terms of the agreement were not disclosed. CHN, which has...

Broadband Benefits Devon

Rural businesses in north Devon will reap the benefits of high speed computer connections with the installation of a new wireless broadband network. The South West of England...

Call Made To Protect Manufacturing

The UK government has been urged to do more to protect British manufacturing and help secure a brighter future for firms, especially those in the motor industry In a document,...

Imperial Innovations Awarded Contract by NPL

Imperial Innovations Group has been awarded a contract by the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) to aid in the commercialisation of NPL’s research activities....

Reading Based BG Group Signs Queensland Alliance

Reading-based BG Group today announced an agreement to establish an alliance with Australia’s Queensland Gas Company Limited (QGC), a coal seam gas exploration and production...

Society of British Aerospace Companies (SBAC) Confirms SPACE Compliance

The Society of British Aerospace Companies (SBAC) announced today that its initiative to transform the aerospace supply chain has taken a further step forward....

Antonov Open New Engineering Centre Nr Warwick

Antonov, a vehicle technology company specialising in the design and development of automatic transmission systems, has opened a new engineering centre near Warwick. The...

European Commission Alter Plans For Climate Change

The European Commission’s climate change combat plans have been broadly welcomed by manufacturers around the UK, but with some concerns as to the effect they may have on...

NPower Renewables and Bristol Based Marine Current Turbines Delivery Tidal Stream Project

npower Renewables and Bristol-based tidal power developers Marine Current Turbines (MCT) are to help deliver one of the world’s first commercial-scale tidal stream projects, off...

Bigger Imager For Better Scanners

Engineers at Sheffield University and the STFC Rutherford-Appleton Laboratory have developed an imager that could produce more sensitive and faster images for medical...

GRC Sells Software For Submarines

GRC, a Hants-based subsidiary of Qinetiq, has secured a contract to provide Paramarine Version 5 ship design software and its onboard variant Seagoing for Submarines to the...

UK Outlines Civil Space Strategy

The British National Space Centre today published ‘UK Civil Space Strategy: 2008 – 2012 and beyond’, a strategy document outlining how the UK can increase its share in the...

Scottish Power Announce £10m Wave Power Project

ScottishPower, working closely with the Scottish Executive, has today announced a £10m wave power project and an upgrade to an existing wind farm. On the wave power front,...

Joint Venture Provides Precise Positioning Across Europe

Astrium Services, an EADS company, and Allsat network+services have created AXIO-NET, a joint venture that will provide navigation and positioning services across Europe....

Global Steel Set to Hit New Peaks in 2008

Global steel prices could hit new peaks in 2008, thanks to skyrocketing raw material, energy and freight costs, coupled with tighter supplies because of falling exports from...

Rolls-Royce Wins £58m Contract

Rolls-Royce has won a £58m contract to deliver design and equipment systems for two of the world’s most advanced offshore support vessels. The vessels have been...

UK Based ORECon Raises £24m To Build Wave Energy Device

ORECon, the UK-based wave energy device developer,  has completed its first institutional funding round led by a syndicate of international venture capitalists,...

Unmanned flight

Scientists at British Antarctic Survey (BAS) in collaboration with the Technical University of Braunschweig (TUBS), Germany have completed the first ever series of flights by...

First Fully Electric Car Soon To Be Released In The UK

The first fully electric powered car is due to be released for sale in the UK later this year, providing a new green alternative for motorists. The new TH!NK city electric...

Manufacturers Buoyant Despite Downturn

Healthy overseas demand helped manufacturers fill their order books last month and kept the sector growing despite the wider economic slowdown, the CBI said today.However, the...

EADS wins second military deal

A fleet of new Airbus A330-200s will provide air transport and air refuelling capability to the Royal Air Force under a 27-year contract between the UK Ministry of Defence...

Greener Buses For Nottingham

As part of its ‘Declaration on Climate Change,’ Nottingham City Council is set to trial ethanol-powered buses from Tuesday 2nd April 2008 following an investment from East...

Centrica Proposes Offshore Gas Storage in East Irish Sea

Centrica today announced that it is proposing to create the UK's first offshore gas storage facility for over 25 years. The proposal, with partners Gaz de France and First...

Whisky By-Product Used To De-Contaminate Groundwater

The medicinal powers of whisky have long been reputed, but a new technology from Scotland uses a by-product from the liquor to cure contaminated groundwater.Researchers...

Institute Of Mechanical Engineers Reveals Shortlist for Manufacturing Excellence Awards

The Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) has unveiled the final shortlist of companies for its Manufacturing Excellence Awards (MX) 2008. Twenty firms have been...

South West (SWRDA) Invests In Bioheat

The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has awarded the South West Regional Development Agency (SWRDA) £3m to invest in a series of bioheat projects...

Automated Power Tool Grinder Help Keep Prices In Check For Samwell Tooling

Samwell Tooling has doubled its complement of Walter Helitronic Power CNC five-axis tool grinders with the arrival of a second model at the company’s Poole facility supplied by...

Green light for greener fuels

The Department for Transport’s Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation (RTFO) comes into force today, requiring 2.5 per cent of all road fuels sold to come from biofuels....

BP And ConocoPhillips To Build Gas Pipeline in Alaska

BP and ConocoPhillips are to start building a gas pipeline in Alaska that will move approximately four billion cubic feet of natural gas per day. It will be the largest private...

BT Install Wind Turbines On The Roof Of Its South London Building

An installation of two 6kW micro wind turbines and a 15kW solar panel array have been installed by BT on the roof of its Colombo House building in Southwark, south east...

BP To Buy Into BioFuel

BP announced today that it intends to take a 50 per cent stake in Tropical BioEnergia, a joint venture established by Brazilian companies Santelisa Vale and Maeda Group....

Straw Power for Welsh Energy Company Eco2

Welsh renewable energy company Eco2 is planning a 40MW straw-fired biomass plant on the grounds of a disused sugar beet factory in North Lincolnshire. Plans for the...

Pankl Racing Systems Acquire Northbridge Motorsport

Pankl Racing Systems has acquired Northbridge Motorsport, a Leicester-based specialist bolts manufacturer supplying the motor sports industry, for around €2.3m....

Manufacturers Forced to Pass On High Energy And Raw Material Costs

Companies are raising the prices of their goods to try to counter the strongest cost increases since 1990, driven by more expensive energy and raw materials. The latest...

Pratt & Whitney Wins $190 Million Order for V2500 Engines from Silkair

Singapore-based Silkair has selected the International Aero Engines V2500 to power up to 20 new Airbus A320 family aircraft.  The engines will be backed by a...

Michelin To Invest £14 Million In Northern Ireland Bus & Truck Company

Michelin is to invest £14 million in its Ballymena bus and truck tyre factory in a bid to improve efficiency. The company currently employs more than 1,000 people at the...

Manganese Bronse The Black Taxi Cab Maker To Build Battery Powered Vehicle

The black taxi cab maker Manganese Bronze is to build a battery-powered vehicle with zero carbon emissions. The company, which employs 300 people at its UK factory in...

Manufacturers Weigh Pros And Cons Of Going To China

Increasing competition and shareholder pressure for greater profitability has led many UK OEMs over recent years to outsource production to places like Eastern Europe or...

NPL Technologies Notes Upturn In UK foundry Business

NPL Technologies, which provides prototype and production tooling services to the foundry industry, has recently seen a 30% increase in business from UK-based foundries,...

Car Manufacaturing In The UK In Good Health

Car manufacturing in Britain is in good health despite the economic problems befalling the UK, according to new figures. Car production in the first three months of the year...

New Organisation To Help Engine Manufacturers Reduce Emission Levels

A new organisation has been established to give engine manufacturers an opportunity to outline how they can contribute to the long-term reduction of emission levels worldwide....

Milling Machine That Sets World Record With Longest X-Axis

The high performance capability of the latest LMT Boehlerit Nanolock indexable milling inserts, that are also able to provide better than 50 per cent improvement in cutting life...

Longbridge To Resume Production

The automotive manufacturing plant in Longbridge, which had been closed down in April 2005 following the collapse of MG Rover, is to resume operations thanks to Chinese owners...

British Baker Sells Brioche To France

Barnsley baker has landed a surprise contract to supply France with thousands of loaves Foster’s Bakery is now to ship 7,000 square loaves each month to a French firm which had...

e2v Provides Indian Space Centre Sensors

Essex-based e2v, a manufacturer of specialised components and subsystems, has won a contract to supply imaging sensors for the Indian Space Research Organisation’s (ISRO) new...

Nuttall Awarded £41M Contract To Build New Waste Plant

Edmund Nuttall, a Surrey-based civil engineering contractor, has been awarded a £41m contract to design and construct a waste plant at Donarbon Waste Management’s...

Tidal Renewable Energy

A team of engineers from Cardiff University aim to accurately predict the impact of using the world's second highest tidal range as a source of energy. To do so, the...

UK Launches Research Project For Green Vehicles

The UK government is investing £23m on the development of ‘green’ technologies for vehicles, in cooperation with a number of manufacturers. Sixteen “low-carbon vehicle...

Reading Based BG Group Signs Agreement With South Korea

Reading-based BG Group has signed an agreement with South Korea’s Samsung Heavy Industries for the delivery of two new-build dual-fuel diesel electric (DFDE) LNG ships. The...

GE Energy Signs With RWE npower Cogen Supporting Four UK Power Plants

GE Energy has signed an agreement with RWE npower Cogen to provide maintenance and support to GE gas turbines operating at four industrial power plants in England. The...

Uk To Increase Offshore Wind Capacity

The Crown Estate today launched its round three leasing programme for the delivery of up to 25GW of new offshore windfarm sites by 2020. The Crown Estate said in a...

VT Group and Lockheed Martine Sign Contract For UK Military Flying Training System

Ascent, the joint venture between Southampton headquartered defence and support services company VT Group and Lockheed Martin, has signed a contract for the UK Military Flying...

Nottingham University and Ariel Develop Thrill Rides

Nottingham University’s Mixed Reality Laboratory (MRL) and design house Aerial have been awarded £87,892 by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) to...

Baby In An Egg

A student at the Bristol Institute of Technology based at the University of the West of England has developed an egg shaped baby incubator. Product design student Doug Campbell...

Forensic Scientists Develop A New Method to 'Visualise Fingerprints'

Forensic scientists at Leicester University's Forensic Research Centre have been working with Northamptonshire Police to develop a new method that enables scientists to...

Vehicle Occupancy Limited Sells 7% of Equity To Avingtrans

Vehicle Occupancy Limited (VOL) has sold seven per cent of its equity to Avingtrans, a Nottingham-based engineering technology group, for £200,000. VOL, based at...

Decision Held Back To Erect Wind Turbines At Lotus HQ

Ecotricity's plans to erect three wind turbines at Lotus' headquarters in Hethel near Wymondham have been shot down by the South Norfolk planning committee. The decision was,...

Reading Based BG Group Signs Natural Gas Agreement For Work In Brazil

Petrobras has signed two liquefied natural gas (LNG) agreements with Reading-based BG Group for work in Brazil. Financial details of the contracts were not disclosed. Under the...

On the way up for UK manufacturing

The FT reported today that manufacturing in the UK rebounded from a weak start to the year, expanding in March at its fastest monthly pace in 10 months. The Office for National...

BAE and VT in aircraft carrier joint venture

26/07/2007 - BAE Systems and VT Group will merge their shipbuilding operations into a new entity that will build surface ships for the Navy for the next 15 years. The unveiling...

Small businesses cheer legal victory in landmark tax case

26/07/2007 - Small businesses were celebrating victory yesterday after the House of Lords dismissed an appeal by HM Revenue & Customs in a landmark tax case, and gave the...

Factory output surge puts pressure on MPC

02/08/2007 - Homeowners are bracing themselves for further interest rate rises later this year after the pace of manufacturing activity hit a three-year high in July. Figures...

King coal makes a comeback

02/08/2007 - A colliery in Yorkshire has restarted operations, thanks to a colourful entrepreneur and his Russian backers. Andy McSmith tells how the economic pendulum swung...

Parents alerted over 94,000 toxic toys made in China

Some 1.5 million of the toys, which were made at low-cost factories in China and have been on sale in Britain since may, are being recalled worldwide.The UK withdrawal relates to...

Car Makers send British Industry into Pole Position

Resilient British manufacturers are firing on all cylinders thans to a turbo charged automotive sector.A 10,000 unit jump in car output helped rev factory production to its...

SEEDA ignore the export losses

New figures portray the South East as flourishing in export markets - even though the UK's trade in manufactured goods is showing a record deficit.SEEDA, the development agency,...

British manufacturing in buoyant mood

The CBI's latest survey of business paints a strikingly upbeat picture of British manufacturing industry, with optimism in UK factories reaching levels not seen since 1995....

Colchester-Harrison Restructures Tornado And Alpha Production At Heckmondwike

The Colchester-Harrison production facilities at Heckmondwike in West Yorkshire has been restructured to accommodate rising order books for its CNC range of Tornado mill/turn...

Pratt & Whitney Wins US$715 Million Engine Order from Flyington Freighters Private Limited

EAST HARTFORD, Conn, Sept. 6, 2007 – Flyington Freighters Private Limited has selected Pratt & Whitney PW4000-100” engines to power their fleet of new A330-200F...

Armoured Vehicle Revamp Offers Serious Business

Senior executives from big US defence contractors, including Lockheed Martin, Boeing and General Dynamics (GD), will be out in force at the Defence Systems &...

B/E Aerospace has been awarded contracts worth an initial $100m by four major airlines to outfit their Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft.

WELLINGTON, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--B/E Aerospace, Inc. (Nasdaq:BEAV), the world's leading manufacturer of aircraft cabin interior products and a leading aftermarket distributor...

Foster Wheeler Awarded Contract by GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals in Singapore

Foster Wheeler Ltd. (Nasdaq: FWLT) announced today that its Singapore subsidiary Foster Wheeler Eastern Private Limited, part of its Global Engineering and Construction Group,...

UK Engineering Growth

Rumours of the death of UK manufacturing have been greatly exaggerated. Surveys report bulging order books while engineering groups chalk up record sales and profits. Britain is...

Green Light for Scottish Power Windfarm at Harestanes

ScottishPower was today granted final planning consent by the Scottish government for Harestanes windfarm, a project providing up to 213MW capacity in Dumfries and Galloway....

'Somewhere Beneath the Sea'- Fujitsu Awarded a Turnkey Contract for Work on Submarine Cable System

FLAG Telecom, a subsidiary of India’s Reliance Communications, has awarded Fujitsu a turnkey contract for work on a submarine cable system linking countries around the world....

Birmingham To Get £1 Million Powertrain Development Centre

Plans to install and commission a £1 million research facility for heavy diesel powertrain development and emissions analysis, have been announced by the University of...

Bristol-Based Embley Energy is Developing Marine Energy Technology

Bristol-based Embley Energy is developing marine energy technology that uses advanced concrete construction methods for lightness and durability.The company hopes to show that...

Alcoa Wheels Selected as Exclusive Wheel Supplier to Super-Exotic Lamborghini Murcielago Reventon

Alcoa Wheel Products, a Cleveland, Ohio-based business unit of Alcoa, today announced an exclusive supplier agreement to provide all wheels for the super-exotic Lamborghini...

AMEC-Led ATA Consortium Celebrates Ahead-of-Schedule Completion of PCWU Topsides, Azerbaijan

London, United Kingdom (19 September 2007) - AMEC.com, the international engineering and project management company, and its partners in the AMEC-Tekfen-Azfen (ATA) consortium,...

FLIR Systems Announces $28.6 Million Order From the United Arab Emirates

FLIR Systems, Inc. announced today that it has received a $28.6 million order from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for its Star SAFIRE(R) III stabilized, multi-sensor systems. The...

Boeing Awarded Launch Services Contract for Third Italian Earth Observation Satellite

The Boeing Company, through its commercial launch business, has been awarded a contract to launch the third COSMO-Skymed commercial satellite for Thales Alenia Space Italia, the...

Turbulent Money Markets Fail to Curb Growth Prospects for UK Industry.

Manufacturers' order books remain healthy and firms' expectations for output growth have improved, according to the CBI's monthly Industrial Trends survey. The snapshot of the...

American Medical Technology Manufacturer to Open New Plant in the Republic.

About 250 jobs are to be created after an American firm announced plans to set up new operations in the Irish Republic. Medical technology company Kinetic Concepts will open a...

Mattel Boss Defends Product Safety Record

Toy maker pledges to help improve industry practices amid concerns over lead levels in products made mainly in China The chief executive of Mattel defended his company’s...

Cleaning up Chernobyl

Contracts to secure the future decommissioning and clean up of the Chernobyl site have been signed in Ukraine. Donors, including the UK, Ukraine and G8 and EU partners, are...

Boeing And Airbus Win BA Deals

British Airways has split its biggest aircraft order in almost ten years by placing orders with both Airbus and Boeing. In a deal worth around £4 billion, BA is to buy 12...

Manufacturers Are Upping The Inestment Game

In contrast to the official figures, new research from the EEF shows that Britain’s manufacturers are significantly increasing their investment performance as they strive to...

UK Manufacturing Continues to Grow Strongly

Manufacturing output and new orders continued to grow robustly during September, impervious to the banking crisis that rocked confidence elsewhere. The seasonally adjusted...

Battery Technology Developed by QinetiQ-led Team Plays Key Role in Foton-M3 Mission

A battery developed by a QinetiQ-led consortium including ABSL Space Products (ABSL) has successfully powered key scientific payloads during the final stages of the Foton-M3...

Boeing, Air New Zealand and Rolls-Royce Announce Biofuel Flight Demo

Air New Zealand and Rolls-Royce today announced a Memorandum of Understanding to conduct a biofuel demonstration flight designed to help accelerate the development of viable and...

Backwards Refrigeration Concept Generates Heat for Domestic Boiler

A UK firm has unveiled a domestic boiler that generates heat by applying the process of refrigeration — backwards.The micro combined heat and power (CHP) boiler from...

LG Motion Ltd Launches The New Agile microMAXR Distributed And Intelligent Servo Drive

 Agile Systems’ new microMAXR intelligent servo drive combines a sophisticated motion controller with user I/O, a powerful servo amplifier and a choice of high-speed...

Young Ones Teach Old Dogs New Tricks

A majority of older manufacturing workers say they learn new skills from younger colleagues. More than two-thirds of older workers in the manufacturing industry believe their...

Manufacturers To Tackle Skills Shortage

Manufacturers are to get the opportunity to play an important part in reversing the skills shortage and helping to promote manufacturing in schools. A new Diploma in...

Diamond Drug Delivery

 Northwestern University researchers have shown that nanodiamonds - with a similar carbon structure to that of a sparkling 14 karat diamond but on a much smaller scale - are...

End Of The X-ray?

Dental x-rays could be a thing of the past thanks to a new technique that has been developed by pioneering research firm IDMoS. Based on AC impedance spectroscopy, the...

Sector Enjoys 20-Year Growth Record

Manufacturers in Britain continue to prosper but economists predict economic slowdown. UK manufacturers recorded their strongest quarter for sales in almost two decades...

£1.5m New And Improved Casting Manufacturing Facility Opens Following Whirlwind Five Years

Lost Wax Development is using its 30th birthday as the perfect platform to increase turnover and win new contracts in the automotive, petrochemical and fine art markets. The...

Back To School For Chinese Toymakers

The Ministry of Commerce and General Administration of Quality Supervision in China has held a two-day course of training for the staff of Chinese toy making companies. The...

UK Inflation Holds At 1.8pc

Falling gas and electricity bills have kept inflation below the Government's two per cent target for the third month in a row, according to figures from the Office for National...

Demand For Chinese Toys ‘Undented’

Spate of product recalls fails to shake confidence in the safety of Chinese-made toys, state official insists. Orders for Chinese toys are on the rise in the run-up to...

Mattel issues new toy recall

Toy firm Mattel is recalling a further 55,000 Chinese-made toys after lead contamination fears, according to US reports. The recall affects 12,000 toys in the UK and the...

Work starts on £400m contract

The Commander of the Royal Navy of Oman (RNO) has started manufacture of the UK’s first naval shipbuilding export order for nearly ten years at VT’s facilities in Portsmouth....