Rio Tinto is to sell its Alcan Packaging Food Americas division to the Bemis Company, a supplier of flexible packaging and pressure-sensitive materials, for $1.2bn.

An initiative worth up to £125m is being set up to improve the global competitiveness of UK advanced manufacturing supply chains.

Ocean Power Technologies has been awarded a $2.4m contract by the US Navy to provide PowerBuoy wave-energy conversion technology to the navy's Littoral Expeditionary Autonomous PowerBuoy programme.

Register now for this Wednesday’s free Dassault Systèmes webinar to learn how to avoid disconnects in the way your company designs, manufactures and supports a product.

AMEC is set to begin engineering studies to test the potential for further development of the Clair oil and gas field in the North Sea.

A five-year project aims to develop a device that brings back speech functions to people rendered speechless through stroke or other conditions.

According to a survey published by the Chartered Management Institute, many engineering businesses are failing to prepare for disruption, despite evidence outlining the business benefits of disaster...

Shift Geothermal is launching a bid to establish a new national centre for geo-energy to realise the potential of a huge untapped UK energy source.

Transforming manufacturing resilience could add £26bn of productivity to the economy according to new research from global electronics supplier RS Components.

It may or may not be used to find life on Mars, but technology developed for a space mission could soon be used to make drinks cans.