Environmental Sustainability

Managing Director, Martin Dudley on Thomas Dudley’s new Kaisen Pouring line at its Duport Foundry - image courtesy of Thomas Dudley

Thomas Dudley passes new ISO Standards ahead of 2018 deadline

A forklift operating at a Premier Foods Warehouse - image courtesy of Premier Foods

CHEP named Premier Foods Supplier of the Year

Most diesel-fuelled vehicles will be banned from the center of Stuttgart on smoggy days. Image courtesy of Wikipedia.

Stuttgart moves to ban most diesel cars

Despite its clear skies, London has some of the world's worst NO2 Pollution. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.

Digital Transformation

Funding for IoT problem solvers

An artists impression of the drone bee at work pollinating a flower. Image courtesy of AIST - Eijiro Miyako.

Japanese scientists demonstrate ‘drone bee’ prototype

Flow batteries developed by reserachers at Harvard could revolutionise the storage of renewable energy. Image courtesy of Wikipedia - AleSpa

Harvard researchers develop battery that could last a decade

An experimental fusion reactor built by General Fusion. Image courtesy of General Fusion. fusion power

Fusion power: safe, green and coming soon

The UN says global GHG emissions need to be approximately 55 per cent lower than their 2017 levels by 2030 in order to limit global temperature rises to 1.5C. image courtesy of Wikipedia

IBM lists 5 life-changing innovations due in next 5 years

China has been installing a large amount of renewable energy capacity in recent years. Image courtesy of Wikipedia - WiNG.

China doubles solar power capacity

Savortex hand dryers will be IP-enabled so that advertising messages and (very) short films can be served to individual dryers – image courtesy of Savortex Intel - IoT.

Digital Transformation

The IoT solution hanging rivals out to dry

The Annual Manufacturing Report 2017 reflects a surprisingly resilient mood among UK manufacturers- image courtesy of DFC

Annual Manufacturing Report 2017 published