National Grid and TenneT Holding are to construct a new €600 million 260km 1,000 megawatt electricity interconnector - ‘Britned’ - between the UK and Netherlands.

A novel tactile sensor based on a tiny barometer could be used to create a new-generation of inexpensive touch-enabled robot hands.

The first ever UK-wide recycled content HDPE bottle will be available from next year, thanks to a deal between Nampak and Closed Loop London.

BASF Venture Capital America is investing $3 million in Colorado-based biotechnology company LUCA Technologies to boost BASF’s energy management research.

Aquamarine Power has announced positive test results from its Oyster wave energy converter, prompting the company’s chief executive to declare the success ‘the birth of an industry’.

A forest fire and smoke pollution monitoring system for Asia is the latest King’s project to win funding from Innovation China-UK.

The number of young people entering the UK offshore oil and gas industry has shot up in the last six years, according to a recent study.

Honda Precision Parts of Georgia celebrated the start of mass production of five-speed transmissions by announcing plans to expand production capabilities at its west Georgia facility.

China’s Chongqing Lifan Industry Group (Lifan) recently signed an agreement with Ricardo to develop a new family of car engines and transmissions.

Proximagen Neuroscience has signed an agreement with Biovitrum to acquire Biovitrum's wholly owned subsidiary Cambridge Biotechnology, along with certain drug development programmes.