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Government award to power up industry’s cutting edge computing
Added: 16 Apr 2024
The Centre for Modelling and Simulation (CFMS) has been awarded £2.4 million of funding from the De…
Fast reactor application makes nuclear and legal history
Added: 16 Apr 2024
Legal history has been made with the first ever attempt to use a legislative procedure specifically…
Petrochem woes compounded by spare parts shortage, claims report
Added: 16 Apr 2024
Spare parts sourcing for cooling, heating, steam and compressed air equipment is becoming more prob…
Global RoSPA win for factory that took workplace safety into the community
Added: 16 Apr 2024
An Indian factory run by an international cosmetics brand has won the Royal Society for the Prevent…
Inspection tech keeps wet pet food production safe, compliant and optimised
Added: 12 Apr 2024
Wet pet food manufacturers understand the importance of meeting high standards while safeguarding t…
Finding answers for those energy saving questions
Added: 12 Apr 2024
Just when you thought pressures could not get any greater, in comes another top-down mandate to red…
CBA Q4 report shows jump in chemical sector optimism
Added: 25 Mar 2024
Chemical Business Association members have shown a markedly more optimistic view of the sector’s re…
UK tops peers in EPO patent applications
Added: 25 Mar 2024
UK innovators their increased year on year European patent applications by a larger percentage than…
Climate, skills and environment top another successful PIA Awards
Added: 25 Mar 2024
Global climate change, the skills gap and environmental regeneration all featured among this year’s…
Europe on course to circular source plastics goals
Added: 25 Mar 2024
Europe is almost half way towards its goal of using a quarter of its plastics from circular sources…
Retrofitting ageing pump systems offers energy savings and compliance
Added: 12 Mar 2024
Retrofits to outdated heating, cooling and water systems enable cost savings on the road to sustain…
Viewpoint: Working safely with heat transfer fluids in plastics manufacture
Added: 13 Mar 2024
Plastics and polymers are vital materials in manufacturing. Global Heat Transfer’s Clive Jones expl…
Pioneering UV pasteurisation aims to cut cost with greener approach
Added: 12 Mar 2024
Dairy pasteurisation has traditionally been a costly business for manufacturers, involving intricat…
AMRICC opening cements Staffs role as UK materials science centre
Added: 26 Feb 2024
Staffordshire has sealed its centuries-old reputation as the UK’s ceramics capital with the officia…
Chemicals and renewables’ lack of appeal leaves recruitment headache
Added: 26 Feb 2024
The renewables and chemicals sectors could be short of thousands of the skilled workers they need u…
Sensor offers new hope to counter ‘forever chemicals’ contamination
Added: 24 Jan 2024
New methods to combat the prevalence of per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) could provide a v…
Made Smarter 4.0 adoption is vital ingredient for manufacturing investment
Added: 24 Jan 2024
Industrial mentoring organisation Made Smarter reports that small to medium sized manufacturers (SM…
Tomorrow’s big process ideas start in the lab…
Added: 29 Jan 2024
Many of the biggest technological advances in the process industries begin with R&D in the lab. Fin…
Catch up on the science that impacts the process factory floor…
Added: 19 Jan 2024
Lab Horizons, our new sister site and publication, is at the cutting edge of science and industry, …
Viewpoint: X-ray inspection – quality assurance for pharmaceuticals
Added: 24 Jan 2024
In the highly-regulated pharmaceutical industry, product safety and quality is paramount. While man…
