Smart Manufacturing Week (SMW), the UK’s largest festival of advanced manufacturing and engineering, returns to the NEC Birmingham on 3-4 June 2026. Bringing together a powerhouse portfolio of events – Smart Factory Expo, Maintec, Drives & Controls and Design + Engineering Expo, Manufacturing Digitalisation Summit and The Manufacturer Top 100 Awards – SMW once again promises to be the focal point for innovation, insight and industry collaboration.
At the North Sea Summit 2026 in Hamburg, the governments of Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, and the United Kingdom, alongside the wind industry and transmission system operators (TSOs), signed the Joint Offshore Wind Investment Pact for the North Seas.
Natural Power, a leading global renewable energy consultancy, has announced two senior leadership appointments as part of a strategic realignment of its advisory and analytics services, designed to better serve clients operating across international markets.
EnerMech has announced it has been awarded a subsea pre-commissioning services contract by Saipem for the Whiptail Development, located approximately 200 miles offshore Guyana in the Stabroek Block operated by ExxonMobil Guyana.
Ireland has officially reached 2 gigawatts (GW) of installed solar capacity, marking a historic milestone in the country’s renewable energy journey and demonstrating that solar is now a core component of Ireland’s clean-energy mix.
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Events Diary
- Subsea Expo04 - 05 February, 2026
- OEUK Share Fair 202619 March, 2026
- All-Energy 202613 - 14 May, 2026
