Inmarsat is calling on industry, governments and regulators to take coordinated action to reduce space debris, enhance safety and better manage the expansion of mega constellations.

The robot, once the preserve of large industry, could be coming to the shopfloors of SMEs to perform light tasks alongside staff via 'intuitive' programming. Samantha Pears reports.

Viewpoint Dawn Bonfield of the Women’s Engineering Society explains why it’s so important for companies not to let the skills of their female employees go to waste

Smart energy technologies are to be piloted at Portsmouth International Port in a project to improve air quality, reduce carbon emissions and facilitate port electrification.

Sheffield Forgemasters International (SFIL) has been awarded £140m to install the UK’s first 15,000 tonne forging press to make ultra-large nuclear components. 

Alstom and American Electric Power recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding to bring Alstom’s chilled ammonia process for CO2 capture to full commercial scale by 2011.

EEF and the Forum of Private Business are separately urging all political parties to quickly form a consensus that allows business and innovation to thrive.

The CBI has announced that it expects the UK economy to continue to grow in 2010, and at a slightly faster pace than had been expected.

Air of positivity: Rolls-Royce’s Alan Newby believes that the aviation industry needs to be bolder in stressing its positive contribution to the modern world. Stuart Nathan reports

Kevin Matthews of Oxonica has diversified the company’s portfolio from fuel additives to medical applications — a move that seems to have paid off.