This March, the industry will gather at the Cutty Sark in Greenwich, London, for the inaugural Engineering Matters Awards. Over two weeks of episodes, we’ll be introducing all of the shortlisted entries.

The Awards will demonstrate why engineering matters. We’ll be sharing some exciting innovations. And we will be looking at a range of ways engineers and those in related fields can have a wider impact on the world. 

This episode is the second of three focussing on shortlisted entries in the Innovation category. We’ll find out how one heavy tool manufacturer is transforming quarrying with a move from hydraulics to fully electric power. We’ll learn about a new model for local manufacture of electric vehicles, delivered with the same speed and reliability as a hamburger. We’ll discover a neutron detector that has been designed for use in parts of Fukushima so radioactive that they are inaccessible even to robots. And we’ll explore how smart and precise control of furnace firing is helping some galvanising plants cut their energy use by almost 25%.

Guests

Angela Curtis, CEO, Hasco Thermic

Steve Pegg, CEO, Helixx

Victoria Anderson Matthew, Director of business development and administration, Innovative Physics

Antti Anttila, CEO, Lekatech