A consortium including British Airways and Shell is hoping to build Europe’s first waste-to-jet-fuel plant at Immingham in North East Lincolnshire.
A new £1.5bn Teesside plant that will convert up to one million tonnes of household waste into jet fuel each year is planned to be operational in 2028.
Network Rail claim that an initiative to attract and implement new rail innovations is on track to deliver savings of nearly £40m by 2014.
Around 2,500 jobs are to be created in Staffordshire following a decision by JCB to invest £150m in its West Midlands operations.
Technology demonstrated by researchers at the National Composites Centre in Bristol promises to make it easier to dismantle, repair and recycle composite parts.
Worthy Farm, home to the Glastonbury Festival, is deploying new technology to harvest hydrogen and graphene from the slurry produced by its dairy herd.
Engineers from the Universitat Politècnica de València have developed EYE 21, a new device claimed to help the blind to move independently.
By studying the limits of transparency in conducting oxides, US researchers are hoping to design more efficient solar cells.
Allen Fan, Field Applications Engineer, Analog Devices
Remotely-controlled magnetic nanoparticles could be the key to improving the healing of damaged bone, according to researchers from Keele and Nottingham Universities
