Barrnon has been named Engineering Manufacturer of the Year at Insider Media’s Made in the North West Awards 2026, recognising the company’s achievements in engineering, robotics and advanced manufacturing. The awards celebrate the strength of manufacturing across the North West, recognising businesses demonstrating innovation, investment, technical excellence and growth. Barrnon
Barrnon has successfully completed the design, manufacture, integration and off-site testing of a new robotic system developed to support the remote cleaning and decontamination of legacy skips within a highly regulated environment. The bespoke system has been developed as an integrated robotic platform, combining industrial robotic manipulation, purpose-designed containment, control
Barrnon has completed an extended off-site demonstration and testing programme of its BIDS robotic laser cutting system, marking a significant step forward in the maturity of the technology. The system has now reached a new level of operational readiness, with an intuitive user interface that allows operators to remotely plan
Barrnon has successfully demonstrated and delivered its latest Bladecutter System – the Small Riser Residuals Pump (SRRP) – to the client at Hanford. The SRRP represents the smallest iteration yet of Barrnon’s proven Bladecutter sludge recovery technology, developed over a two-year project to support retrieval of waste from Hanford’s underground
Last week we successfully completed the main functional testing regime of our dust free scabbling system. This large scale ROV is designed to remove contaminated concrete from the walls, of nuclear storage ponds and active cells. During the last 2 months of testing, it has shown that it achieves both
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Award winning nuclear engineering company Barrnon, which solves problems at some of the world’s most challenging environmental threats, is preparing for another year of growth after being awarded a multi-million pound contract to build a Scabbler system for Dounreay. For Barrnon, it’s the latest in a series of high profile
A robot. Unsupervised. Cleaning up nuclear waste… Meet BLISSS – the latest Barrnon product ready for action. More than 20 VIPs visited its Appleby site today (6th Dec 2022) — to see the company’s new sort and segregate machine working – and it received a hail of positive feedback. Technical
At Barrnon we’re always looking to the future, exploring new innovations and efficient ways of working, while ensuring our employees stay safe. We have a three-pillar mantra: “Faster, Safer, Cheaper.” Well, this week we were asked to solve a problem involving Boston Dynamics’ Spot the robot dog, which is being
A Cumbrian nuclear engineering company, which provides solutions to some of the world’s most challenging environmental threats, is hosting is hosting its first tech demo day on Weds (Sept 7th). Barrnon, which won the Queens award for Innovation in 2021, has won a series of high profile contracts in the