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The incident took place at Diageo’s Glenlossie Distillery Complex Drinks manufacturer Diageo has been fined £500,000 after pleading guilty to maintenance health and safety failures that led to an engineer employee sustaining burns to over 30% of his body. The mechanical engineer had been repairing a defective pump at Diageo’s Glenlossie Distillery Complex in Elgin…
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Fhaheen Khan Senior Economist, Make UK Business confidence among Britain’s manufacturers has dipped at the sharpest rate since the onset of the pandemic in response to rising costs, according to Make UK and BDO’s Manufacturing Outlook Q4 2024 report. The report says that the mood among companies has deteriorated considerably since the last survey in…
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Joe Llewellyn, General Manager of Cloud ERP at the UK’s Access Group, the parent company of Unleashed UK industrial manufacturers are riding high on a wave of newfound confidence, figures from a Manufacturing Health Index survey from software provider Unleashed suggest. A report from the UK owned inventory management software specialist shows an uplift in…
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Planteneers aims to demonstrate to producers how they can satisfy consumer demand for plant-based substitutes while providing delicious food at affordable costs. Planteneers developed its fiildMeat S 111404 system to make affordable plant-based foods accessible to as many people as possible, without compromising on quality, texture, or flavour. The system enables the manufacture of cold…
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Image courtesy EIB The European Investment Bank (EIB) is lending Romania’s Distributie Energie Electrica Romania (DEER), the distribution operator within the Electrica Group, €200 million ($208.4 million) to upgrade its electricity distribution network. According to the EIB in a release, the electricity network in Romania is in urgent need of investment to address ageing infrastructure…
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Dec 19, 2024 (Credit: Hanwha Ocean) American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) has awarded Hanwha Ocean an Approval in Principle (AIP) for its Pre-FEED standard FPSO design intended to create an asset optimized for deployment in the deep waters of West Africa. The FPSO design is 340 meters long and capable of storing approximately 2.38 million…
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Image courtesy National Grid UK utility National Grid has published its RIIO-T3 business plan for its National Grid Electricity Transmission (NGET) business, earmarking up to £35 billion ($44.3 billion) over the next five years to March 2031. The £35 billion includes a baseline investment of over £11 billion ($13.9 billion) to maintain and upgrade the…
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Wall’s Pastry has announced a new charity partnership with Action Against Hunger, pledging to donate 5p from every pack sold of its 10x55g sausage rolls. Funds raised through the initiative will support Action Against Hunger’s work to tackle hunger in areas of high poverty across the UK. The announcement follows an exceptional year of growth…
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This is launching two alternative chicken products for Veganuary. The brand’s new chilled ‘Isn’t Chicken Kyiv’, which is made from soya and fava protein and stuffed with wild garlic plant-based butter, will hit shelves on 1 January in Sainsbury’s at £4.95. This’ frozen ‘Isn’t Chicken Wings ‘ will roll out on 6 January in Asda…
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The Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) has launched an Expression of Interest (EOI) to explore scalable solutions for sea-based liquefied natural gas (LNG) reloading to complement the existing onshore LNG bunkering storage and jetty capacities and the supply of e/bio-methane as marine fuel in the Port of Singapore. Proposals must be submitted by…
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