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Science and engineering must stake their claim on creativity
Added: 10 Dec 2021
The late Jacob Bronowski defined a singular trait of creative personalities thus: they think of the…
After the COP26 show time, now It’s ‘how?’ time
Added: 10 Dec 2021
If we park the non-attendance of two of the world’s largest countries and greatest polluters, COP26…
Oil and gas have incentives to embrace the new
Added: 28 Oct 2021
Most sectors within the process industries have their rugged aspects, where the demands on the work…
Necessity is the midwife to innovation in pumping
Added: 28 Oct 2021
Necessity is credited in the often-repeated proverb as being the mother of invention. The truth is …
Chemicals sector finds Brexit's sunlit uplands hard to REACH
Added: 28 Apr 2021
Brexit’s sunlit uplands are proving difficult to access and, for one sector at least, the blame for…
Chemical pumping proves its worth in the wider world
Added: 28 Apr 2021
As our March/April edition went to press, the Government was releasing early details of its legisla…
Planning gains
Added: 4 Feb 2021
History provides numerous instances of catastrophic events providing the catalyst for radical econo…
Clean machines
Added: 4 Feb 2021
The crucial role of pumping systems in influencing the world’s energy usage for better or worse is …
From talking to walking on water strategy
Added: 10 Dec 2020
The water industry may be vast but it is a mistake to represent it as some sort of industrial monol…
Pumps, the true transformers
Added: 10 Dec 2020
Sustainability, the new regulatory regime and lockdown, our feature on page 7 notes, are transformi…
A new era beckons for the food and drink sector
Added: 14 Feb 2020
A recent article in the press drew a comparison between the modern fast food sector and the clothin…
Small process innovations can create great advances
Added: 14 Feb 2020
In this age of disruption, there’s a tendency to regard innovation in terms of monumental, eye-catc…
'Interesting times' beckon for pharma and biotech
Added: 4 Sep 2019
The scale of pharmaceutical counterfeiting can be staggering to behold – whether in terms of the nu…
Patent sense for pumps and pharmaceuticals
Added: 4 Sep 2019
The area where pumps intersects with pharma and biotech is thriving and growing. Patent application…
Stasis or industry for the process sectors?
Added: 22 Jul 2019
A mighty, Brexit-sized freeze frame has sat around the process industries for the last three years.
Pumps maintenance needs to combine DIY with good advice
Added: 22 Jul 2019
Do it Yourself is a motto best applied with caution within the increasingly refined pumps systems a…
Remember to count industry among the climate worriers
Added: 13 May 2019
The appearances of the youthful environmentalist Greta Thunberg have drawn some predictably Old Buf…
Look East for pumps priorities
Added: 13 May 2019
Even before the axis of global power had shifted so far eastwards, we had grown accustomed to laggi…
Technical advance helps downstream negotiate the petrochemical switch
Added: 19 Mar 2019
“Global energy demand is growing… fuelled by a bigger middle class coming on the market with more c…
Digitalisation could transform oil and gas pumping
Added: 19 Mar 2019
The concept of reliability is both a watchword and in some ways a curse for the oil and gas sector.
