The Engineer
30 November 2001
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BNFL role change slated as 'excuse to do nothing'
6 Dec 2001
British Nuclear Fuels will cease to own any atomic plants in the UK and become a science and technology company under plans announced by the Government last week.
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CAD sports intelligent dimensioning
6 Dec 2001
In December, CADKEY is to release GraphX Version 20 mechanical drawing software for drafters, mechanical design engineers and manufacturing engineers.
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Car companies welcome back their flexible friend
6 Dec 2001
Flexible manufacturing systems, the production-line concept conceived in the early 1980s to handle small batches of components, is back.
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Delphi sells composite springs
6 Dec 2001
Delphi Automotive Systems has sold its Liteflex composite spring business to newly formed Dayton, Ohio based Liteflex LLC.
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Expansion means an injection of skills
6 Dec 2001
Development of a new fuel injection technology to reduce emissions and improve the performance of diesel engines is driving an engineering recruitment campaign at Delphi DieselSystems.
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Motor racing team sails into a defensive future
6 Dec 2001
Lola Cars International has signed a deal with defence contractor BAE Systems to design and build a composite housing for the Royal Navy's new fleet of Type 45 destroyers.
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Nissan delivers euro ultimatum
6 Dec 2001
Nissan has threatened to build the next model of the Almera abroad rather than at its Sunderland plant unless the UK votes in favour of joining the euro in a referendum by 2004.
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Parker buys $68 million Italian hoses
6 Dec 2001
Parker Hannifin is to acquire the operations of ITR SpA, a subsidiary of the SAIAG Group, for $68 million.
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Siemens to deliver 3G mobile network to US
6 Dec 2001
Cingular Wireless, the second largest US wireless carrier, is planning to upgrade its current TDMA mobile network to 3G using Siemens EDGE technology.
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The green man
6 Dec 2001
To combat global warming the UK needs to reduce carbon dioxide and greenhouse gas emissions by 60% by the year 2050.
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Unions lobby parliament over UK jobs
6 Dec 2001
The UK's aerospace firms are being 'hammered' by the crisis in the aviation sector, engineering unions told MPs at Westminster this week.
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World's highest power output
6 Dec 2001
NEC Corporation has successfully developed what it claims is the highest power single chip nitride semiconductor power transistor yet to be developed.
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Centrica secures electricity acquisition
5 Dec 2001
British Gas Trading Limited has entered into an agreement with Pricewaterhouse Coopers, Administrators of Enron Direct Limited, to acquire its energy customer business.
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Hewitt announces new £20m to spread manufacturing success
5 Dec 2001
Trade and Industry Secretary Patricia Hewitt today announced a £20 million cash boost to manufacturing as part of drive to spread excellence throughout the sector.
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High capacity memory for mobiles
5 Dec 2001
Hynix Semiconductor has produced samples of 16M-bit and 32M-bit Pseudo SRAM targeted for the mobile handset market.
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Human transporter balances itself
5 Dec 2001
Segway LLC has just debuted the long-awaited Segway Human Transporter (HT) - the world's first self-balancing, electric-powered transportation machine.
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Textron back selling auto trim unit
5 Dec 2001
Textron is to proceed with the sale of its automotive trim business to Collins and Aikman after the impact of the events of September 11 interrupted liquidity in US high yield debt markets.
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Three dimensional memory
5 Dec 2001
Matrix Semiconductor has disclosed that the first of its line of 3D memory chips will be available in 2002. The Matrix '3-D Memory', as it is called, will come to market under some of the world's best-known brands, providing consumers with extremely low-cost semiconductor storage for portable electronic devices.
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Portuguese government procures 12 EH101 helicopters
4 Dec 2001
The Portuguese government has awarded Agusta Westland a contract thought to be worth between $268 and $313 million to produce 12 EH101s helicopters.
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Brian Wilson approves £650m Clair oil field
30 Nov 2001
The UK Energy Minister Brian Wilson today gave his formal approval to the development of the first phase of the West of Scotland Clair oil field.
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Were composites to blame?
30 Nov 2001
On November 12th, an Airbus A300 aircraft was involved in an accident after takeoff from JFK International Airport in New York. Now, investigators have to figure out why....
