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Added: 28 Mar 2024

Exciting advances in agritech will impact the food and drink sector. They also open up new regulato…

News Analysis: Pinch points

Added: 28 Mar 2024

In today’s joined-up world, far-away conflicts impact business at home. As with critical industries…

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…

Plastic recycling

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…

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…

Cheese

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…

A positive charge

Added: 27 Feb 2024

Although seen as a negative if essential investment, is it time to view cyber protection as a busin…

Not tomorrow but now

Added: 27 Feb 2024

Though much talk about AI is in the future tense, it is already embedded in many areas, including i…

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…

BP chemicals plant facility

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…

2024 Pump Industry Awards Finalists Revealed

Added: 26 Feb 2024

Fifty finalists across eight categories are squaring up for the hotly contested honours at the 2024…

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…

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…

Days left to join MacRobert’s engineering hall of fame

Added: 11 Jan 2024

The deadline is fast approaching for the final chance this year to enter one of UK engineering's mo…

Case study: New cleanrooms prompt search for better monitoring system

Added: 11 Jan 2024

During preparations for the construction of two new cleanroom facilities, NorthX Biologics, a leadi…

Viewpoint: Working safely with heat transfer fluids in plastics manufacture

Added: 10 Jan 2024

Plastics and polymers are vital materials in manufacturing. Global Heat Transfer’s Clive Jones expl…

Case study: Pumps prove vital to decarbonisation and environmental materials

Added: 9 Jan 2024

Peristaltic pumps help decontaminate water at Cornish Metals’ new treatment plant in a former mine …

Agreement seals work on advanced materials innovation centre

Added: 20 Dec 2023

Global giant Tata Steel has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the UK’s national centr…