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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.
Food sector will have a substantial diet of change to digest
Added: 14 Jan 2019
If every process firm in the UK food and drink sector qualified as a so-called ‘top quartile perfor…
Food sector's waste management proves its adaptability
Added: 12 Sep 2018
The Food and drink industry has reason to view the immediate economic future with trepidation.
When you invest in pumps, you invest in industry's future
Added: 12 Sep 2018
Beyond the sectors in which they operate, pumps have a profile so low that they might as well be no…
Like football, pumps expertise requires thinking outside the box...
Added: 3 Sep 2018
“A competent pump supplier is somewhat like a competent coach, they should be able to offer more th…
Industry strategy can't wait for Westminster
Added: 3 Sep 2018
Government and industry appear to occupy two parallel universes when it comes to the subject of 29 …
Water recycling achieves a full circle
Added: 8 May 2018
What would those great Victorian public health pioneers John Snow and Joseph Bazalgette have made o…
Investing in pumps modernisation is essential for survival
Added: 8 May 2018
It’s a bald reminder to anyone who assesses a product’s overall cost purely on the basis of its pri…
Brand new age for STEM recruitment
Added: 22 Mar 2018
Words such as branding and marketing are, one suspects, anathema to the average engineer.
We must help MPs understand the importance of the process industries
Added: 6 Nov 2017
There is, we know, a substantial job of work to do in terms of enabling the rest of the United King…
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