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JCB has today started a fresh recruitment drive for 500 new shop floor employees as demand for its machinery continues to soar. The company is setting on the additional agency employees at its 11 plants in Staffordshire, Derbyshire and Wrexham – on top of the 850 shop floor jobs already created so far in 2021.    JCB is also offering an additional 300 agency employees perman...

Data and analytics are key for a more efficient, resilient, and sustainable future in manufacturing. But despite high ambitions, many manufacturers struggle to capture satisfactory value from data and analytics in manufacturing. Successful manufacturers ensure a value focus in the selection of application, build a solid technological backbone and put organizational key succe...

The UK SMR consortium, led by Rolls-Royce, has announced it expects to create 6,000 regional UK jobs within the next five years, if the UK Government makes a clear commitment that enables a fleet of 16 small modular reactor (SMR) power stations to be built over the next 20 years. The power stations will help secure the UK’s net zero commitments affordably, revitalise the UK’...

Wood has further strengthened its relationship with Equinor by securing a new contract to support the international energy company’s operations at the Mariner field in the UK Continental Shelf (UKCS). Wood has entered into a three-year agreement to deliver operations, maintenance, modifications, and offshore services on the Mariner A platform and Mariner B floating storage u...

Paris, October 7, 2020 – Total becomes a 20% shareholder in the Eolmed floating wind farm pilot project, located in the Mediterranean, off the coast of Gruissan and near Port-La-Nouvelle (Occitan region). Attributed in July 2016, this 30 megawatts (MW) project will accelerate the development of a floating wind technology. Together with Qair, the historical developer and majo...

First ever UK use of high-voltage direct current (HVDC) technology with smaller environmental footprint for connecting offshore wind farms Dogger Bank offshore wind farms to power 4.5 million homes Increasing current wind offshore capacity by 3.6 GW, equivalent to 5% of the UK’s total estimated electricity generation ABB has been selected by energy companies SSE Renewables o...

Virgin Galactic and Boeing have announced a new strategic partnership to broaden commercial space access. Boeing will invest $20 million in Virgin Galactic and the companies will work together to transform global travel technologies. “This is the beginning of an important collaboration for the future of air and space travel, which are the natural next steps for our human spa...

Taking control of your interview. Personally, I believe that interviewing is a two way process where both parties have to impress each other for the process to move forward to the next stage, I know it may seem that I am stating the obvious but you would be surprised how many decision makers in a hiring situation still think the whole onus is on the candidate impressing them...

Groundbreaking on 10,000 square metre UK Global Technology Centre (GTC) Number of partnerships reaches twenty five in six months New partners include Axillium Research, Blue Bear Systems Research, Exechon Enterprises, Frazer-Nash Consultancy, Renishaw, Siemens Digital Industries Software, Theta Technologies, TriMas Aerospace, University of Birmingham and University of the We...

Government invests £23 million to keep the UK at the forefront of electric car development Companies benefiting from this government investment will use it in the development of the latest battery technologies Part of the modern Industrial Strategy’s Future of Mobility Grand Challenge Companies across the country are set to benefit from £23 million government investment to h...