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11/03/2014 Sovex wins Manufacturing Innovation Award Wirral based conveyor manufacturer Sovex won the Manufacturing Innovation Award at the Made in the Northwest Business Awards 2014. » Read More

11/03/2014 Powder coating firm in court after worker’s hand injury A Bedfordshire-based powder coating firm has been fined £36,000 and ordered to pay £10,509 costs after an employee suffered serious hand injuries when lifting equipment failed at the company premises in Leighton Buzzard. » Read More

10/03/2014 Ultrasonic sensor pinpoints industrial machinery faults Researchers at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC) have developed wireless sensors able to detect minute fissures in industrial machinery by the ultrasonic sounds they emit. » Read More

10/03/2014 Foundry fined after worker fell through roof A Coventry foundry has been fined £20,000 and ordered to pay costs of £899 after a worker broke three ribs after falling 5m through a fragile roof sheet while clearing gutters. » Read More

10/03/2014 20,000 apprentice jobs at National Apprenticeship Week More than 20,000 new apprenticeships have been pledged by employers as part of last week's National Apprenticeship Week (3—7 March 2014). » Read More

10/03/2014 Boost your power plant efficiency: new guides New guidance notes from ABB, published to coincide with the launch of ABB's Navigator analyser range, explain how to optimise boiler chemistry and steam quality in power generation applications. » Read More

07/03/2014 Chester dairy factory fined after workers badly scalded A Chester-based dairy firm has been fined £54,000 after two employees were badly scalded when hot water escaped from the top of a 600 litre tank. » Read More

06/03/2014 Viridor cleans up health, safety and environmental management Recycling, renewable energy and waste management giant Viridor is reporting improvements in the provision of health and safety as well as environmental expertise for its compliance team, following advice from legal consultancy Cedrec. » Read More

06/03/2014 Tata Steel extends EEMUA membership Europe-wide Tata Steel has extended its membership of EEMUA (Engineering Equipment & Materials Users' Association) from the UK strip-steel hub to include all of its manufacturing and related operations Europe-wide. » Read More

06/03/2014 Hinxton Hall selects Dalkia for energy-efficient CHP plant Wellcome Trust subsidiary Hinxton Hall is now getting site-wide efficient heat and power from a Dalkia-designed, installed, operated and owned 2MWe CHP (combined heat and power) plant. » Read More

05/03/2014 Engineering Council welcomes EngTechNow apprentice standards The Engineering Council is welcoming this week's announcement by the government of the Trailblazers apprenticeship programme – and, in particular, the new standard, which sees qualifying apprentices receiving professional registration to ... » Read More

05/03/2014 ASME boiler and pressure vessel codes updated The ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers) boiler and pressure vessel codes (BPVC) have been updated and are now available from BSI. » Read More

05/03/2014 Manufacturers are victims of their own skills downfall say young managers A failure to invest in up and coming talent has left manufacturers complicit in creating skills shortages, young site managers have claimed. » Read More

04/03/2014 Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering launched today The £1m Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering was launched today (4 March 2014), with chairman Lord Browne of Madingley calling on parents to consider engineering, and to encourage their sons and daughters to view it as an exciting and ... » Read More

04/03/2014 Ineos contracts Amarinth for flare knock-out pumps Ineos has taken delivery of two API 610 OH2 pumps from specialist centrifugal pumps manufacturer Amarinth for the flare knock-out system at its onshore refinery at Grangemouth, Scotland. » Read More

03/03/2014 Meteoric rise for engineering apprenticeships More than twice as many young people are taking engineering apprenticeships than degree courses, according to the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) at the start of National Apprenticeship Week (3—7 March 2014). » Read More

03/03/2014 Didcot manufacturer fined for acetone burn failings A specialist manufacturer of vessels and pipework designed to carry liquid nitrogen and liquid oxygen has been fined £5,000 and ordered to pay £4,500 in costs after a welder was seriously burned during unsafe hotwork. » Read More

03/03/2014 ‘Inspire more businesses to hire apprentices’, says BCC As National Apprenticeships Week begins (3-7 March), the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) has called on businesses to highlight the value that apprentices bring to their company in a bid to encourage more firms across the UK to hire them. » Read More

03/03/2014 Engineering leaders and apprentices back professional status for technicians Bosses at five major UK companies have become the first to back a new campaign to promote routes for technicians and engineering apprentices to professionally register as engineering technicians (EngTech) and enhance their career prospects. » Read More

28/02/2014 Cool radar to measure thinning Arctic ice A series of custom-designed radar instruments deployed in Antarctica will give researchers their first ever day-by-day measurements of the health of one of its ice shelves. » Read More

28/02/2014 Laser vibrometer shakes up non-contact vibration measurement Maintenance engineers concerned about condition monitoring on applications, such as fans, electric motors and pumps are being courted by SKF, following its launch of a laser vibrometer. » Read More

27/02/2014 Scotland to fund tidal energy pod pre-commercialisation The Scottish Government has awarded a share of the Marine Renewables Commercialisation Fund (MRCF) to the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) to support development of an integrated site characterisation and measurement platform. » Read More

27/02/2014 GAMBICA to head up this year’s MACIES at Siemens, Manchester GAMBICA, the instrumentation, control and automation trade association, is to host the 11th Measurement and Control Information Exchange System (MACIES) event, at Siemens, Manchester on 21 March. » Read More

27/02/2014 Bouygues UK sentenced for serious crane safety breaches Bouygues UK has been ordered to pay more than £250,000 in fines and costs for safety failings after a worker was killed by a large concrete beam during a dangerous lifting operation in strong winds at a hospital construction site in Essex. » Read More

27/02/2014 Peterborough contracts Honeywell for self-funding energy upgrades Peterborough City Council has signed a deal with Honeywell for building energy management upgrades that will see guaranteed savings of £163,000 annually for the next 15 years across eight of its major facilities. » Read More