Engineering


  • Rail depot cuts waste and costs by £26,000

    Refillable spray systems are cutting rail depot waste and costs. A HAYLEY DEXIS and LOCTITE project is delivering annual savings of around £26,000.


  • Wood wins five-year Bruce engineering framework

    Wood has secured five years of Bruce platform engineering work. The Serica Energy framework will support reliability, life extension, and preparations for potential new drilling.


  • SLB agrees .1bn Kelvion thermal acquisition

    SLB will acquire Kelvion to expand data-centre thermal infrastructure capacity. The $4.1 billion transaction adds heat-exchange technology to SLB’s modular engineering business as computing projects demand greater cooling capacity.


  • Rolls-Royce extends SCR across Series 2000

    Rolls-Royce extends marine emissions control across mtu Series 2000 engines. The integrated SCR package targets IMO Tier III operation, offering up to 16,000 operating hours of design life without compressed-air dosing.


  • TEKEVER buys Flowcopter for heavy-lift propulsion

    TEKEVER has acquired Edinburgh propulsion specialist Flowcopter for UK integration. The deal brings hydraulic transmission technology used by the AR6 heavy-lift aircraft into TEKEVER’s expanding UK engineering and manufacturing network.


  • MacLean expands Chilean underground mining technology programme

    Canada and Chile are expanding cooperation on critical minerals technology. A five-year Codelco–MacLean programme will test underground mining equipment at El Teniente alongside new industrial connectivity and research initiatives.


  • XCMG completes first 14,000-tonne ring crane unit

    XCMG has completed the first unit of a giant crane. The twin-unit machine is designed for ultra-heavy lifts across nuclear, conventional energy, and wind construction projects.


  • AXISCADES targets expansion in aerospace manufacturing

    AXISCADES will acquire Cloud Wave to accelerate aerospace manufacturing expansion. The transaction adds seven operating precision-production units while the engineering group develops a separate 240,000 sq ft advanced manufacturing centre near Bengaluru.


  • Saab Gripen F begins flight-test campaign

    Saab’s two-seat Gripen F has completed its first flight testing. The aircraft now enters progressive envelope expansion, tactical evaluation, and rear-cockpit verification before acceptance and delivery to Brazil.


  • Bull wins €387.8m LUMI-AI supercomputer contract

    Bull will deliver Europe’s LUMI-AI supercomputer to Finland during 2027. The €387.8 million system combines liquid cooling, AMD accelerators and processors, high-performance interconnects, storage, and data-centre networking for industrial and scientific workloads.