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A Bachelor of Engineering (BEng) degree has been unveiled by Siemens and the University of Salford to help address the engineering skills shortage affecting UK industry.

Young people with special educational needs and disabilities have begun the journey to employment with Siemens in Hull.

This month Steve Scrimshaw will return to his native North East to take up a new role as UK Country Lead for the Power and Gas and Power Services divisions at Siemens plc.

An order for 175 Sicore Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) cameras has been placed with Siemens ITS by 7iD, an Austrian system integration company based in Graz. This follows more than seven months of trials including a technical proof of concept against a number of competitors in the market where Siemens’ ANPR performance in both detection and read rate tested successfully.

Business leaders from the UK’s most prominent firms are to begin work on a roadmap for digitalising British industry, hoping to find ways new technologies can increase national productivity and improve the skills of employees across the country.

Siemens welcomes the Department for Transport’s announcement of the start of the procurement process for the rolling stock for HS2.

Siemens has announced two senior members of its HS2 rolling stock bid team, Jo Hensher as Bid Director and Kevin Clark as Head of Maintenance. Together they will be responsible for leading the business’ team for the HS2 rolling stock contract.

The first turbine components have been dispatched by sea from Siemens’ new offshore wind power facilities in Hull.

Siemens is getting behind the Hull UK City of Culture programme by backing a major artwork that has been installed into the heart of the city. Siemens is backing the installation of 'Blade' by multi-media artist Nayan Kulkarni, who has reinterpreted a 75m long wind turbine blade as a monumental sculpture installed across the historic Queen Victoria Square.

Hospitality and Hope and Children North East Christmas Appeal are receiving help from Siemens this year as employees get behind the charities which support families who need a little extra help.

Great Northern passengers are set to see a transformation in rail services with the completion of an enlarged, modernised train depot in north London, which is now one of the biggest in the UK.

New contracts could be open to UK SMEs as Siemens launches a new initiative to boost the UK rolling stock supply chain. Around 100 businesses attended Siemens UK’s Rail Supplier Summit (on Dec 1 and 2) at which the company set out how it plans to work with UK suppliers and outlined how it intends to increase UK businesses’ share of the growing market for rolling stock which is estimated to be worth at least £11.6bn by 2020[i].