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Corus Process Engineering (CPE) has been awarded a contract from BAE Systems Submarine Solutions Ltd to manufacture a range of long lead time equipment for use on the Astute Class submarine Boat Number 5.The contract involves the manufacture of watertight doors, including all associated locking/interlocking mechanisms; tunnel door and shielding plug arrangement; tunnel hatch; re-fuelling plugs; and a variety of other blanking plugs and inserts.

The watertight doors, which will be manufactured at CPE

Entrepreneur Jim McColl, who last week completed a $1 billion (

The Pentagon has cancelled a defence contract that would have secured 11,000 British jobs, after fierce political lobbying by American companies. Airbus, the European aircraft manufacturer, won a contract to supply the United States Air Force (USAF) with refuelling tankers this year. The wings for all 179 aircraft would have been built in Britain in a deal worth more than

GENERAL MOTORS has recruited investment bank Merrill Lynch to review the future of its Strasbourg car-component plant.The factory, which employs 1,300 people, could be put up for auction as part of a GM plan to raise $4 billion (

Coal mines have seen a revival in their fortunes due to a steep rise in the price of coal and the soaring cost of energy. The promise of a nuclear energy renaissance in Britain and elsewhere in Europe today drove state-owned power group EDF to record highs on the Paris stock exchange, where it became France's biggest listed company.

EDF, which has 5.5 million customers in Britain and has teamed up with Areva in bidding for a licence to build a third-generation European pressurised reactor (EPR) in the UK, overtook French oil company Total on the CAC-40.

The future of the Nano - the world's cheapest car - remains in doubt as protestors besiege the partly built factory where production of Tata's

Magnatech Fuel Conditioning Limited have recently completed a contract to install their  very powerful magnetic fuel conditioning units to all structural gas and oil burning equipment across five MOD bases in England. This was after research concluded that Magnatech was the most cost effective provider of this type of application.

The MOD have used this technology previously, when a number of  bases where equipped with  similar units, they calculated payback  within the year,  and now it is reported that  those units are continuing to save much more than their purchase price every year with no maintenance or running costs.  This figure is of course rising as fuel prices soar.

Cambridge - 27th August - Artesis UK, leading suppliers of intelligent predictive maintenance solutions, has recently appointed Joe Barnes as UK Manager. Focusing on business development in the UK and developing relationships to increase Artesis presence in the predictive maintenance market, Joe brings much experience to the team from previous positions in sales and technical support for a number of industrial companies, most recently Proctor and Gamble.

Joe is responsible for all UK sales operations, building and developing relationships with the maintenance and plant engineering sector, and further extending the Artesis distributor network.

Sir James Dyson, whose plans for a school have received another blow, explains why we need to nurture creativity.BRITAIN needs more engineers. It is a widely held belief and yet we remain unable to bridge the gap between intention and action. Britain trades on the triumphs of its industrial forefathers while failing to safeguard its engineering future.

Only by introducing young people to the excitement and creativity of science and technology can we stay in the race. Snobbery and government bureaucracy stand in the way of progress. On the one hand industry is invited to play its part in education and on the other government red tape reins in momentum.

BEKO Technologies, has appointed Ian Taylor as Customer Support/ Internal Sales person. He is responsible for generating new sales and service opportunities for the company as well as supporting our existing customers. Ian will also deal with technical enquiries and project work along with Sean Bullock. Ian is also working in support of the external sales team.

Ian has joined BEKO from a local competitor where he worked as an Area Sales manager. Having been in sales roles for 11 years, 9 years within the compressed air industry, plus his service and engineering background makes Ian ideally suited to Beko