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29/09/2014 EEF calls for pay boost for apprentices Britain's manufacturers are calling for a major pay boost to apprentices by urging the Low Pay Commission (LPC) to scrap the current 'apprentice rate' and, instead, align it to age-specific wage rates. » Read More

29/09/2014 Rolls Royce fined for loss of radioactive source Rolls Royce Marine Power Operations has been fined £200,000 plus £176,500 costs following loss of a radioactive source at its Derby plant. » Read More

26/09/2014 City Technology crowned Britain’s Best Factory Gas sensor manufacturer City Technology has been crowned Britain's top factory after being recognised for its cutting edge products backed by a razor sharp focus on quality and a powerful commitment to its people. » Read More

26/09/2014 Best Factory Award winners revealed The winners of the Best Factory Awards (BFAs) 2014 have been revealed. » Read More

25/09/2014 Basingstoke firm fined following worker crush incident Basingstoke-based RVC Engineering has been fined £6,600 plus £1,087 costs in court following an incident in which a 42-year-old man was crushed between a telehandler and a steel post. » Read More

25/09/2014 WEG cuts metal for Sims waste shredding machine Electronics and metal recycling specialist Sims Metals Management has selected electric motors firm WEG to design and build a bespoke, 6.6kV, 3MW motor for its Newark, Nottinghamshire, plant. » Read More

25/09/2014 Atlas Copco grows custom service for oil and gas compressors Atlas Copco's Hemel Hempstead custom engineering workshop has unveiled a £680,000 expansion to meet what it describes as rising global demand from the oil and gas industry. » Read More

24/09/2014 Global trade boost for UK manufacturers as UKTI and EEF sign partnership deal Manufacturers' organisation EEF has signed a partnership agreement with the Government's trade body, UKTI, in a bid to boost exports and attract more businesses to invest in the UK. » Read More

24/09/2014 SARB3 goes for Amarinth AP 610 super-duplex pumps ADMA-OPCO ha awarded a contract to centrifugal pumps specialist Amarinth to supply 16 API 610 super-duplex pumps, some of which will be self-priming, for use on the SARB3 (Satah al-Razboot) project. » Read More

24/09/2014 EU awards €750,000 for collaborative tidal power development Tidal energy firms Minesto and Atlantis Resources have been granted €750,000 from the Eurostars Programme, funded by the European Union, for R&D to reduce the cost of installations. » Read More

24/09/2014 Deadline approaches for WM’s all new Manufacturing Champions Awards Entries close on 15 October for Works Management's all new Manufacturing Champions Awards. » Read More

24/09/2014 Company prosecuted after worker suffers back injury in forklift fall A forklift truck company has been fined £8,000 and ordered to pay £1,144 in costs after a worker at its West Bromwich factory fractured a vertebra in his back when one of its vehicles fell from a lorry. » Read More

23/09/2014 Electroplating plant turns to Qdos pumps BIA Kunststoff- und Galvanotechnik, which manufactures plastic components with metallic surfaces for the automotive industry, is reporting success since installing Qdos pumps, from Watson-Marlow, to dose process-critical additives into its ... » Read More

23/09/2014 Fund worth £4.5m announced to help manufacturers exploit offshore wind Two fast-track funding calls worth a combined £4.5 million have been announced by the GROW:OffshoreWind service to help English manufacturers to take offshore wind market opportunities worth up to £15bn. » Read More

22/09/2014 EEF sets out key priorities for next government Britain's manufacturers have set out their priorities for the next government to drive better balanced growth, boost trade and investment and, deliver long term economic security. The priorities are set out by EEF, the manufacturers' ... » Read More

22/09/2014 Siemens UK chief executive appointed to BIS board Business secretary Vince Cable has announced the appointment of Siemens UK head Juergen Maier as a non-executive board member at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS). » Read More

22/09/2014 BAE company sentenced over worker’s firing range injury BAE Systems Global Combat Systems Munitions has been fined £80,000 for a serious safety breach after a worker's leg bone was shattered while test firing a gun on a range in Northumberland. » Read More

19/09/2014 £250 PPE prize for Safe Workplace Manufacturing Champion Arco is offering a £250 voucher to spend on PPE to the winner of the Safe Workplace Champion Award at WM's Manufacturing Champions Awards. » Read More

18/09/2014 Atlas Copco VSD compressors save 240m kWh in 20 years Atlas Copco Compressors, which is celebrating the 20th anniversary of its variable speed drive (VSD) air compressor technology, claims that UK industry has saved around 240 million kWh of electricity in that time. » Read More

18/09/2014 ClydeUnion Pumps takes long distance runner award An SPX ClydeUnion Pumps advanced class boiler feed pump FK3C44 has run for more than 14 years equivalent without an overhaul at the Matimba plant, making it the longest running unit across all Eskom's power stations in South Africa. » Read More

17/09/2014 Wiring regulations update due out in January 2015 The IET Wiring Regulations BS 7671:2008, incorporating Amendment 3:2015, will be available in January 2015 in print and online. » Read More

17/09/2014 Atlas Copco offers Belgium factory tour prize to Manufacturing Champions winner Atlas Copco is offering young manufacturing employees the chance to win a trip to the world's largest compressor factory in Belgium at WM's Manufacturing Champions ... » Read More

16/09/2014 UK’s first digital factory demonstrator launched The UK's first digital factory demonstrator has been launched at the Manufacturing Technology Centre (MTC) in Coventry, designed to showcase how a 'fourth industrial revolution' could shape the future of British manufacturing. The launch ... » Read More

16/09/2014 Royal Academy of Engineering celebrates its first female president Professor Dame Ann Dowling has succeeded Sir John Parker as president of the Royal Academy of Engineering. Fellows of the Academy elected Dame Ann as their first female president. » Read More

12/09/2014 Simpler explosives and acetylene regulations New laws on working safely with explosives and compressed acetylene gas will take effect next month. » Read More