The UK Government has welcomed the £33bn shale gas supply chain report published today - Business and Energy Minister Michael Fallon said the report showed “the huge prize at stake” for the UK in terms of jobs and manufacturing in the supply chain for the onshore oil and gas industry.
David Lockwood has been appointed to one of the most influential business innovation roles in the UK, as the inaugural non-executive Chair of Knowledge Transfer Network Ltd’s board.
Costain is among a group of organisations that includes De Montfort University, Bluefrog Design, M Wright and Sons, Virtalis and Loxcius that has secured co-funding from the government-backed Technology Strategy Board for a project aimed at improving the company’s operational performance and service delivery at Severn Trent Water.
UK sustainability company Sustain has secured funding from the Technology Strategy Board to develop the UK’s first water footprint database for materials.
The Technology Strategy Board has just announced details of ten small to medium sized companies in the UK which are set to deliver innovative feasibility projects designed to help businesses safeguard future water supply, both in this country and abroad.
New Government grant funding totalling nearly £3 million for four major collaborative projects to develop and demonstrate technologies to tackle CO2 emissions will include wastewater treatment plants.
Business Secretary Vince Cable has announced that a new national £50 million centre to accelerate the commercialisation of green technologies for offshore wind, wave and tidal power will be located in Glasgow.
The Technology Strategy Board has awarded a £250,000 grant to Xeros for research and development to accelerate development of a domestic laundry machine capable of reducing water consumption by up to 80 per cent and slashing energy use by half. The grant, the highest that can be awarded through the Board’s Smart scheme, will be match funded by shareholder funds following a successful private equity funding round in 2011.
Thames Water and Anglian Water are running a six-month trial of fat-coated “BioBullet” pellets in their ongoing fight against zebra mussels.
Barhale has completed work on two separate Rapid Action Taskforce Spills projects it is carrying out for Severn Trent.
Börger UK, which has firmly established itself as a leading pump brand since it was set up in Staffordshire in 2004, has moved into bigger, brand-new premises in Shrewsbury.
HUBER Technology UK & Ireland are inviting people to register for their March webinar where they will be providing information about HUBER water intake screens for municipal and industrial applications.
Sulzer has launched a new global Center of Excellence (CoE) for Water Treatment Solutions - the CoE consolidates Sulzer’s wastewater treatment expertise in a unified and global manner.