Engineering
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Babcock opens Devonport training centre and advances logistics hub plans. Its new Skills Centre can support up to 1,500 people annually, while the Sherford development aims to consolidate more than 30 logistics locations.
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MTC has acquired additional space for industrial research in Coventry. The 5,000m² Shilling Building at Ansty Park will support applied technology projects and manufacturing scale-up alongside revised research and innovation leadership.
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TraceParts has joined KEYENCE Group while retaining its existing identity. The engineering CAD platform says its customer contracts, staff and responsibility for catalogue and user data remain unchanged; financial terms and a product integration timetable were not disclosed.
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Finland has licensed the world’s first spent fuel disposal facility. Posiva’s Olkiluoto plant can encapsulate and bury nuclear fuel after additional regulatory inspections, with the authorisation covering operations until the end of 2070.
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Thermal Transfer Solutions has purchased a larger Redditch industrial property. The £2.8 million acquisition forms part of a £3.5 million investment plan, but new equipment, increased output and a commissioning timetable remain unspecified.
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BioOrbit has completed its first pharmaceutical manufacturing experiment in orbit. The six-week International Space Station test produced protein crystals, but no drug formulated using the process has yet demonstrated clinical safety or efficacy.
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SGE and Origin Nuclear have proposed a British operating venture. The letter of intent covers licensing preparation and potential operations for 14 planned BWRX-300 reactors, but neither the joint venture nor the proposed 4.2 GW fleet has been approved.
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Rheinmetall has opened a specialised weapons factory in Telford, Shropshire. Its UK Gun Hall has begun producing barrels and breeches, with planned peak annual capacity of 245 barrels for tank and artillery systems.
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Renishaw’s latest quarter delivered record revenue as semiconductor demand surged. Group sales reached £251.8 million, while demand for precision encoders and industrial measurement systems prompted further investment in manufacturing capacity.
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NVIDIA’s cuDSS sparse solver has reached general availability for developers. The CUDA-X library accelerates sparse linear equations in engineering software, with named integrations covering semiconductor, structural and fluid simulations.
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