Cabling firm XLCC hires CTO Larsen
The firm spending £1.4 billion to turn part of the Hunterston former nuclear site into Europe’s biggest cable-making factory has appointed industry veteran Vegar...
£400 million CCUS cement plant progresses in Wales
Building aggregates supplier Heidelberg Materials UK is pressing ahead with plans to spend £400 million, converting Britain’s first cement plant to run on carbon...
Clustered small firms share government prizes to de-carb operations
Twelve projects are each set to benefit from their share of up to £6 million in government funds targeted at stripping carbon from industrial...
Cutting out the carb(on)s: developer un-wastes energy at Derby low-carbon food cluster
Supported by waste-to-energy innovators Veolia, industrial estate developers SmartParc are lightening the carbon load by 30,000 tonnes a year for a revolutionary food-processing complex...
Steel city forges plan to swap gas for green hydrogen
Switching Sheffield’s world-renowned steel forges from gas to locally produced green hydrogen could cut CO2 emissions by as much as 40%, a government-funded study...
Brum, brum: Birmingham colleges gets £1.2m to spark up new automotive battery skills
A £1.2 million grant from public sector tech angels Innovate UK has left University College Birmingham leading a West Midlands partnership, aimed at delivering...
Europe “back on track to build 30GW of solar kit by 2025”: industry chiefs
Continental Europe is back on course to re-build its manufacturing capacity in solar panels and inverters beyond 30GW as early as 2025, industry experts...
ITM Power’s shares drop 12% on new boss’s profits warning
Shares in AIM-quoted catalyser builder ITM Power closed more than 12 per cent down today at a year low, as investors reacted to a...
Andrex maker inks paper to strengthen & lengthen Carlton’s green H2 rôle
Carlton Power’s bid to make green hydrogen in Barrow-in-Furness wiped its nose today, as Kleenex tissue-maker Kimberly-Clark signed a supply deal, set to cut...
£163m Humberside factory to challenge China for magnets and rare earths recovery
Construction has begun of a pioneering British plant designed to wrest control from China of recycling valuable magnetic metals used in EVs and wind...
2021 is solar’s best year yet in Europe, trade body finds
Solar PV deployment this year in the EU was the fastest in the technology’s history, industry advocates SolarPower Europe have calculated.
Defying the continuing pandemic,...
Vestas manages recovery from ‘LockBit’ cyber attack
Three weeks after suffering an attempted cyber attack for ransom, turbine maker Vestas is battling to define the extent of data theft. It is...