Owens-Illinois is to sell its plastics packaging business to UK-based Rexam for approximately $1.825bn.

Tiny fibres have the potential to become a big deterrent to counterfeiters.

Engineers have developed a robotic system to assist surgeons with a brain procedure to treat epilepsy.

Bloodhound SSC, the British effort to build a 1000 mph supersonic car, is set to be wound up, with administrators failing to find a buyer to secure the project's future.  

Two companies have joined forces to develop a system to solve the problem of DVD theft.

Alstom has been awarded contracts to supply trains to Paris’ transport authority and to construct a 465MW gas-fired combined cycle power plant in Argentina.

Texas team develops hydrogel films that can be programmed to expand and shrink to perform complex three-dimensional movements and functions, similar to muscles

A NASA technologist is to develop a high-tech covering that would enable robots to sense their environment and react to it.

Costs to be slashed as DaimlerChrysler bids to make ailing Smart brand pay.

Efforts to eliminate medical textile waste are advancing in Cornwall where a new modular laundry system is making it easier to for hospitals to use reusable PPE.