Batteries essential to fire and security sector for critical back-up power, say experts

Battery experts, Strident Innovations, have highlighted how batteries are essential to the fire and security sector for providing critical back-up power to keep systems running in emergencies. For almost all fire and security systems – including alarms, fire suppression, CCTV and emergency lighting – back-up power or an Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) is vital to […]

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International Women in Engineering Day 2025: Celebrating resilience and collaboration

To mark International Women in Engineering Day (INWED) yesturday, on 23 June, the Engineering Council and EngineeringUK are honouring the remarkable contributions of women engineers who are shaping the profession around the world. Organised by the Women’s Engineering Society (WES), this commemorative day raises the profile of women engineers and aims to promote gender equality […]

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NP Aerospace secures multi-million funding package with NatWest to support export opportunities

Coventry-based defence manufacturing business is looking to grow its export business with multi-million pound funding from NatWest, including a Trade Finance Facility backed by UK Export Finance The funding facilities will enable NP Aerospace to further expand their business to new markets abroad NatWest is fully committed and proud to be supporting customers operating in […]

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Scotland’s bioeconomy boosted by launch of £850,000 scale-up technolog

Scotland’s biotechnology sector is celebrating a major milestone with the launch of the nation’s first open-access 300-litre fermenter – a state-of-the-art piece of equipment that will support early-stage companies to develop bio-based products at scale. Located at FlexBIO, the Industrial Biotechnology Innovation Centre’s (IBioIC) scale-up facility at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, installation of the new […]

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NP Aerospace secures multi-million funding package with NatWest to support export opportunities

Coventry-based defence manufacturing business is looking to grow its export business with multi-million pound funding from NatWest, including a Trade Finance Facility backed by UK Export Finance The funding facilities will enable NP Aerospace to further expand their business to new markets abroad NatWest is fully committed and proud to be supporting customers operating in […]

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Chancellor and Ed Miliband visit Cambridge Vacuum Engineering to see Ebflow™ welding technology in action

Ministers watched demonstration of CVE’s electron beam welding solution, which can help accelerate production of small modular reactors The Chancellor of the Exchequer, The Rt Hon Rachel Reeves, and The Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, the Rt Hon Ed Miliband, visited Cambridge Vacuum Engineering (CVE) in Waterbeach, Cambridge on Monday 9 […]

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Service from programming through to component: Schabmüller taps into MAPAL’s expertise in aluminium

MAPAL has handled tool management at automotive supplier Schabmüller for some time. The Aalen-based tool manufacturer has now also taken over CAD/CAM programming for components, including simulations. With growing requirements for aluminium machining, the manufacturer values this full-service solution. Schabmüller Automobiltechnik GmbH (SMI) in Großmehring near Ingolstadt has been an automotive supplier since 1988 and […]

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