
DEN HAAG (ANP) - De productie van de Nederlandse industrie is in augustus met 12 procent gegroeid ten opzichte van een jaar eerder. Volgens het Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek (CBS) is dit de grootste stijging in ruim vier jaar.
Het cijfer betekent ook een duidelijke toename vergeleken met de voorgaande maand. In juli ging de productie 9,3 procent omhoog. Dat was al de sterkste toename in vier jaar.
Van de acht grootste branches realiseerde de machine-industrie opnieuw de grootste productiestijging. De chemie kende de grootste daling, aldus het CBS.
Naar machines is de laatste tijd grote vraag, bleek onlangs uit een peiling door de Nederlandse Vereniging voor Inkoopmanagement (Nevi). ABN AMRO-econoom Albert Jan Swart zei in een toelichting op die graadmeter dat Nederland vooral profiteert van de groeiende vraag naar chipmachines en elektrotechnische onderdelen daarvoor. Ook wees hij op herstel van de vraag naar andere typen machines, bijvoorbeeld voor de voedingsmiddelenindustrie en de landbouw.
Exclusive: Firms made more than £340m last year from processing industrial and commercial wastewater at sewage works that are unable to remove many chemical pollutants
Water companies in the UK made more than £340m in revenue last year by pouring billions of litres of industrial and commercial wastewater into sewage treatment works that experts say are not designed to remove most chemicals, leaving pollutants to pass into rivers, seas and farmland.
Water companies are required by law to take industrial wastewater and issue permits called “trade-effluent consents” that allow businesses to send it to sewage works, though water companies can refuse applications.
Continue reading...We have a deep reservoir of assets, but struggle to turn small companies into global success stories. Innovation needs to be at the heart of government policy
Gordon Brown was UK prime minister from 2007 to 2010
The coming 10 years are almost certain to be the decade that sees the greatest scientific breakthroughs in a century. The question is whether advances now under way in AI, quantum computing and biology can address cancer, find ways to treat or prevent dementia, and overcome the growing resistance to antibiotics. Can we find sustainable ways to address our energy needs and protect the environment at the same time? Can AI transform the way we deliver education, health and social care to the benefit of millions, as well as advance modern manufacturing strength? And what role can Britain’s inventors, investors and industrialists play in developing these transformative technologies?
While the US and China are the world’s obvious innovation powerhouses, the UK also has enormous assets, as the Innovation Nation Conference in Manchester addressed by the prime minister, Andy Burnham, will hear today. We are home to four of the world’s top 10 universities and 16 of the top 100, five of which are in Europe’s top 10 for spin-outs, startups based on intellectual property produced through a university’s research. With less than 1% of the world’s population, the UK produces 6% of the world’s research papers, nearly 9% of citations and 12% of the most highly cited research.
Gordon Brown was UK prime minister from 2007 to 2010
Continue reading...Decision by Royal College of Pharmacy to end sponsorship comes after concerns over Teva Pharmaceuticals’ ‘activities’
A second major UK health body has cut ties with an Israeli drug firm after coming under pressure from pro-Palestine campaigners.
The Royal College of Pharmacy has dropped Teva UK, the British arm of the global medicines producer Teva Pharmaceuticals, as a sponsor of and exhibitor at its annual conference next month.
Continue reading...A crisp surface and creamy core are the traits of this cheesecake with no base, here topped off with spiced and sliced apples and a sticky, caramel sauce
My go-to cheesecake these days is a burnt Basque. It’s so good it doesn’t even need a biscuit base, which might be the very reason some people aren’t fans. But Basque cheesecakes are rarely too sweet, because the burnt top provides just enough bitterness to balance things out and the insides stay ridiculously creamy. If I can give you one tip, though, it’s to make sure you take it out of the oven while it’s still really wobbly, to get the best set. An overbaked Basque is no fun at all.
Continue reading...De afgelopen maanden heb ik veel geleerd over het open sociale web en de pogingen om ons internet te hervormen. Ook NRC heeft inmiddels een teen in het badwater. We hebben een prille eigen server op Mastodon, een alternatief sociaal netwerk. Nu begint het echte werk: de inhoud.
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