Industry news

Now the fundraising round is closed, the mining company will progress its hard-rock lithium project to be construction ready.

Up to £65mln will be available for ground-breaking innovations in space technologies and applications.

Antigua and Barbuda and Timor-Leste join a growing bloc of six Pacific nations pushing for a fossil fuel non-proliferation treaty.

Nissan reportedly plans to achieve 100% electric vehicle sales in Europe by 2030.

The UK and Japanese Governments are co-funding research to detect and process radioactive waste.

A cloud-based system that detects sewer blockages to reduce river pollution was reportedly 90% accurate during a recent trial.

Airbus Helicopters has unveiled the PioneerLab for testing technologies that reduce helicopter emissions, increase autonomy and integrate bio-based materials.

Nordic Co-operation finds that by universally adopting these rules, annual mismanaged plastic production could be reduced by 90% by 2040.

Queen Mary University of London, UK, seeks to change perceptions through a showcase of stories from engineers that are typically under-represented.

The Governor of the State of Massachusetts in the US, Maura Healey, has signed an executive order to end the purchasing of single-use plastic bottles by state agencies.

Legal mines in Brazil may contribute to 5% of global emissions if left active, a paper proposing an offset for these mines has revealed.

Papers include Insights into crystallographic and topographic characteristics of local corrosion attack on zinc, and Methodology for ranking internal corrosion-induced leakage susceptibility in oilfield pipelines.

Papers include Surface modification of urinary catheters, Improvement of current-carrying tribological behaviour via laser surface texture and A green vanadium-based formulation for the conversion of steel.

E3 Lithium has managed to recover more than 90% of lithium from its Direct Lithium Extraction field pilot plant in Alberta, Canada.

The Birmingham Dental and Biomaterials Testing Service (BiMaTs) has been launched by the University of Birmingham Enterprise, UK.

A £9mln mine water treatment scheme aims to reduce harmful metal pollution in rivers is nearing completion in the North East and Cumbria .

Battery-grade lithium carbonate at a purity above 99.5% have been produced from Northern Lithium saline brine in the UK.

The Sizewell C company, EDF and the Government are now looking for companies with major infrastructure experience to invest in the project, subject to strict national security checks.

Papers in this issue include Thermal and mechanical properties of carbon-based rubber nanocomposites: a review, Flexural behaviour modelling of carbon/epoxy laminates using the puck-EWM approach and Effect of surface modification and sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) on thermal properties of PMMA/SWCNT nanocomposites.

The UK Royal Academy of Engineering has shortlisted six examples of partnerships between universities and industry for the annual award.