Balfour Beatty has been awarded a contract of £241 million to widen the M1 from Junction 6A to Junction 10 for the UK Highways Agency.

The UK Department for Business and Regulatory Reform is inviting interested parties to give their views on new EC proposals to revise the WEEE and RoHS directives.

The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority has announced that the Wylfa nuclear power station is to continue generating electricity beyond December 2010 for up to two additional years.

Sasol has become the first company worldwide to receive international approval for a synthetic jet fuel produced by its proprietary Coal to Liquids process.

Aston University and Drayson Racing are to investigate second-generation biofuels in order to create high-performance cars with reduced CO2 emissions.

A low-cost coating applied to sand could provide a means to purify water, saving millions of people’s lives in developing countries each year.

Vestas has announced that it has won a contract to supply EDP Renováveis with wind turbines with a capacity of up to 2,100MW.

Making use of lasers in the initial stages of aircraft component repair could speed the process by up to a third compared to manual methods. Berenice Baker reports

UK manufacturers saw demand for their goods continue to improve in August, as overseas orders returned to normal levels, the CBI revealed today.

Ford of Europe intends to increase capacity of its St. Petersburg Assembly Plant and to start building the new Ford Mondeo for the Russian market.