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Clean screens
Louisa Hearn | Added: 6 Jan 2016
Self-cleaning filters are making steady inroads into production processes, writes Louisa Hearn.
Critical care
Added: 17 Dec 2015
There are real advantages to be gained from renting specialist equipment, writes Will Russell of As…
Hot spot: thermal monitoring technology
Added: 28 Sep 2015
Food manufacturers use thermal monitoring technology to control a wide variety of their processes. …
A sense of danger
Added: 5 Aug 2015
Can a new generation of detection devices mitigate the risk of catastrophic gas leaks within the pr…
Compressing costs
Added: 20 May 2015
New energy-efficient technologies mean compressors needn’t cost the earth.
Election skills
Added: 6 May 2015
Following tomorrow’s general election, key engineering issues such as skills shortages look set to …
Quality control: quality is King
Added: 14 Apr 2015
From the laboratory to the production line, Robert Smith looks at the technologies that are helping…
Process safety: barely begun
Added: 11 Mar 2015
Ten years on from the Buncefield explosion, only small steps have been taken to establish a process…
Gone from the wind – industrial CCS
Added: 4 Feb 2015
Almost half of the emissions that need to be captured to battle climate change come from the proces…
A wealth of opportunity
Added: 14 Jan 2015
Chemical engineering graduates earn some of the best salaries in the country. But does this stop th…
Homemade in the factory
Added: 7 Oct 2014
Food processors have traditionally sought to manufacture products that are consistent in both taste…
Diverting disaster
Added: 10 Jul 2014
In the wake of an industrial disaster, updating plant safety technology is often the first port of …
Engineering champions
Added: 3 Jun 2014
This summer will be the busiest for major sporting events since the London 2012 Olympics. John McKe…
Food Forensics
Added: 7 Apr 2014
The chemical fingerprinting of food samples will be instrumental in the fight against the deliberat…
Meat your maker
Added: 14 Feb 2014
In the year since the horsemeat scandal, what has the food industry done to strengthen its defences…
Recipe for success
Added: 12 Feb 2014
Thermal processes may make up the bulk of energy costs for many food manufacturers, but solutions t…
Brave new world: Industry 4.0 technology
Added: 17 Sep 2013
Wireless devices are common in all workplaces these days, including process plants. But what would …
Keeping it clean
Added: 4 Apr 2013
The meat products scandal that has rocked the UK food manufacturing industry is likely to heighten …
Flexible automation of hygienic processes
Added: 25 Jul 2012
?In the food and beverage sector Analysing each individual part of a plant or installation will sho…
