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AEA Technology AEA Technology is to acquire Project Performance Corporation, the US environmental management consultancy, for £33m. 16-Jun-2008 AEA Technology is planning to create up to 100 new jobs to cope with rising concerns about energy security and climate change, with most being located at its environmental division in Harwell. 15-Dec-2006 AEA Technology is to sell its railway consultancy and signalling operations to companies represented by Vision Capital Group for up to £58m. 14-Aug-2006 AEA Rail is to shed a further 90 of the 370 jobs at its Derby-based rail technology business early next year. 30-Nov-2005 AEA Technology is to sell a number of businesses to Coller Capital for £40m, including its battery plant in Thurso, AEA HK, QSA, nCode, Accentus, Engineering, Safety and Risk, Safeguard, EASA and Lexware International. 15-Sep-2005 AEA Technology, the rail and environmental consultancy, is to raise £33m in a share placing to reduce debt, and has also announced plans to shed more than 200 of its 2,700 staff in a voluntary redundancy programme. 15-Jun-2005 AEA Technology is to create a further 40 jobs at its Glengarnock technology centre in Ayrshire. 04-May-2004 AEA Technology is planning to create about 100 jobs at its battery plant in Thurso over the next three years. 08-Dec-2003 AEA Technology has sold its Nuclear Science operation, which employs 153 people at Windscale and 15 at Harwell, to British Nuclear Fuels for £9.7m. 03-Dec-2003 AEA Technology is planning to complete the sale of its nuclear division by the end of the year, which will involve the disposal of its nuclear experimenting and QSA radioactive materials operations. 20-Jun-2003 AEA Technology is to sell its CFX software business, which specialises in computational fluid dynamics, to Ansys of the US for £12m. 05-Feb-2003 AEA Technology has acquired Lexware International, the East Kilbride-based provider of environment management services with 30 staff. 10-Jan-2003 AEA Technology is to create up to 30 jobs at its Derby-based rail technology business next year, having won a £3m contract to work on the West Coast Line. 19-Dec-2002 AEA Technology is planning to open a £3m technology centre at Glengarnock near Glasgow, with the creation of about 100 jobs. 25-Nov-2002 AEA Technology is to sell Forensic Alliance, the provider of forensic services to police forces, to a management buy-out backed by Close Brothers Growth Capital for about £5m. 25-Nov-2002 AEA Technology is to acquire The Engineering Link, the Derby-based train services company with about 200 staff, for £10m. 22-Oct-2002 AEA Technology has produced a feasibility study on behalf of Greenpeace and TXU for the development of 15,000 wind generators off the coast of East Anglia, and the £30bn scheme could generate 25% of the country's electricity needs by 2020. 26-Jul-2002 AEA Technology is to sell Hyprotech, the Canadian engineering software business with an office in Harwell, to Aspen Technology for £67m. 13-May-2002 AEA Technology is to create 200 jobs at its battery plant in Thurso, having won a £47m Ministry of Defence contract to supply batteries for battlefield communications, and a further 100 jobs will be created at a new facility. 27-Mar-2002 AEA Technology has acquired Kinectrics, the Canadian power technology company, from Ontario Power Generation for £5.9m. 04-Feb-2002 AEA Technology is to shed up to 100 jobs at its Nuclear Science division at Harwell, which is set to be sold off to an unnamed buyer next year. 17-Dec-2001 Serco is to acquire AEA Technology's technical consulting division for about £75m. 02-Jul-2001 AEA Technology has sold its nuclear engineering division to NUKEM Nuclear for £24m, and is now looking to sell its engineering software and nuclear consultancy operations for about £170m. 05-Jun-2001 AEA Technology is planning to close a nuclear handling unit at Harwell over the next three years, with the loss of 130 jobs. 25-May-2001 AEA Technology is to centralise its battery operations at Thurso, which will involve the relocation of up to 50 jobs from Crawley and the creation of 20 new jobs. 09-Apr-2001 AEA Technology, the science and engineering company, has received a number of approaches that could lead to the sale of all or parts of the company. 04-Apr-2001 AEA Technology is planning to sell off its nuclear technology operations over the next few years, in order to focus on rail and environment services. 28-Nov-2000 AEA Technology Rail is planning to set up a new £14m headquarters at Pride Park in Derby by the end of next year. 17-Nov-2000 AEA Technology is considering plans to set up a wood energy supply business in Rotherham, and is in discussions with the local council about setting up wood chip boilers at the former Dinnington pit site. 30-Oct-2000 AEA Technology has acquired NSTO, the technology division of Dutch national railways Nederlandse Spoorwegen, for £0.9m. 07-Sep-2000 AEA Technology is to build a new 32,000 sq ft office and training facility at the Harwell International Business Centre, in order to expand its engineering software business. 10-Jul-2000 AEA Technology has re-opened the former British Biotech laboratory in Cowley, Oxford, as a chemical plant to make drugs for companies testing new medicines. 23-May-2000 AEA Technology is planning to recruit an additional 30 staff, due to the expansion of its Derby-based railway technology business. 01-Dec-1999 AEA Technology is expected to double the size of its railway products business following an agreement that will allow Alstom to distribute its monitoring and control systems in seven countries. 04-Nov-1999 AEA Technology has sold Analytical Services Group to Harwell Scientifics, a subsidiary of Atesta, for £2.2m. 12-Oct-1999 AEA Technology is seeking partners to manufacture its new diesel exhaust filter technology, which is designed to help vehicle makers meet European emissions standards coming into force in 2005. 07-Sep-1999 AEA Technology is to merge its nuclear services operations with those of British Nuclear Fuels, to create a joint venture company with sales of about £150m a year. 28-Jul-1999 AEA Technology has won a contract to manage the technical support and R&D functions of Ontario Power Technologies in Canada, as part of a consortium with Canatom and Scientech. 29-Jun-1999 AEA Technology is planning to collaborate with Com Dev International of Canada to develop specialist batteries for use in space. 15-Jun-1999 AEA Technology is to reduce its operating subsidiaries from 10 to six in order to simplify its engineering services business, and 200 jobs have been cut. 11-Jun-1999 AEA Technology Rail is linking up with three other Derby-based engineering companies to bid for a £40m contract to supply the new Train Protection and Warning System to railway companies. 12-May-1999 AEA Technology has won most of a £50m contract to supply batteries for the Army's new Bowman battlefield communications system, and a factory will be built in Thurso. 05-Feb-1999 AEA Technology is selling its Dorset-based specialist instrumentation business to Packard BioScience Company of the US for £6.9m. 16-Dec-1998 AEA Technology is acquiring Transport Consultants International, the railway engineering consultancy, for £12m, which will enable the two companies to offer their shared customer base a wider range of services. 19-Aug-1998 AEA Technology is acquiring EA Systems, the Californian developer of engineering software, for £9m. 02-Jul-1998 AEA Technology is forming a £12m joint venture with Japan Storage Battery and Mitsubishi Materials to set up a plant in Thurso to produce lithium batteries for the defence and communications sectors, in a move that will create 130 jobs. 04-Jun-1998 AEA Technology has acquired Nycomed Amersham's industrial services unit for an initial £16m. 21-Feb-1998 AEA Technology is acquiring Code International, the producer of lifetime prediction software, for £6.9m. 04-Feb-1998 AEA Technology is acquiring ERG Environmental Resource Group, the environmental engineering business, from Southern Water for £6m. 09-Sep-1997 AEA Technology is acquiring Hyprotech, the Canadian producer of software for the design of oil and gas rigs, for £34m. 11-Jul-1997 AEA Technology is acquiring Advanced Scientific Computing, the Canadian software company, for £6.7m, in order to improve its position in the market for computational fluid dynamics. 08-Jan-1997 AEA Technology is acquiring BR Research from the British Railways Board for £10.8m. 24-Dec-1996 The government has decided to privatise AEA Technology, the science and technology services concern, via a flotation later this year. 24-Jul-1996 More from the Engineering sector Related pages: Silentnight James Walker Outokumpu Greenberg Glass Durham Scientific Crystals AEA Technology website: www.aeat.co.uk The information on this page comes from the UK Activity Report. 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