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Quality pumps extract the best from hazardous by-products
Added: 22 Oct 2019
In the aluminium refining process, scrap is melted in rotary or reverberating furnaces under a bath…
Patents applications are booming in pharma, biotech and pumps
Added: 22 Oct 2019
Official statistics reveal that pumps, pharma and biotech are boom areas for patents. When competit…
Seal solution sustains pump reliability for dairy firm
Added: 22 Oct 2019
Sustaining pump reliability was a challenge for an environmentally conscious dairy until AESSEAL ex…
Severn Glocon valve technology aims for maritime safety advance
Added: 22 Oct 2019
Extreme technical demands associated with a critical safety system on an offshore platforms are bei…
Sector leaders pay tribute to Pump Industry Awards 'lifetime opportunity'
Added: 24 Sep 2019
While nominations are open for the Pump Industry Awards 2020, the prestigious Lifetime Achievement …
IT/OT convergence: greater accuracy, agile responses and happy stakeholders
Added: 18 Sep 2019
Novotek’s George Walker explains how, as with smartphones, modern industrial firms’ IT and OT opera…
Pumps experts find new opportunities in the expanding chemical sector
Added: 28 Aug 2019
Chemicals will provide sustained business opportunities for pump companies working in the sector. A…
Nuclear know-how gets to heart of a critical pumps issue
Added: 19 Aug 2019
By asking the right questions, Sulzer helped reduce power demand for a critical pump serving a nucl…
Precision flow cuts costs for water authority
Added: 15 Aug 2019
Keen to put an end to expensive, time consuming calibration and measurement methods to maintain wat…
Understanding Arc Flash jargon can help you save lives
Added: 2 Aug 2019
Arc Flash is a daily risk for those working in the utilities sector. So it’s essential, says ProGAR…
How process optimisation promotes workflow
Added: 24 Jul 2019
Bürkert’s Greg Wainhouse examines how the wastewater and brewing sectors employ process optimisatio…
Blockchain will release the energy industry's potential
Added: 17 Jul 2019
The energy industry is understandably cautious about blockchain technology, but we should heed the …
Sympathetic actuators provide an answer to Britain’s ageing pipework
Added: 15 Jul 2019
AUMA Actuators’ Paul Hopkins explains how the Victorian’s visionary approach is causing headaches f…
Fish friendly pump stations help save a threatened species
Added: 26 Jun 2019
The European Eel is a species in rapid decline and pumps are part of the problem. Unless, that is, …
Drive for energy efficiences means a greater appreciation of the role of pumps
Added: 26 Jun 2019
Reducing manufacturing labour costs has long had priority over energy savings but the focus is shif…
Telemetry: the often overlooked Industry 4.0 gain
Added: 18 Jun 2019
You can’t ignore the impact of IIoT in the process sectors but you might miss one low key yet signi…
Chopper pumps provide robust solution for unscreened sludge
Added: 13 Jun 2019
The failures of unscreened sludge mixing is a reminder of the benefits that chopper pumps can provi…
Why PC Pumps offer automated solution to reduce workplace injuries
Added: 3 Jun 2019
The food & drink sector accounts for a high proportion of injuries in the process industry, says SE…
How a smart switch solved a brewer’s overflow dilemma
Added: 29 May 2019
A good head on your beer isn’t helpful when foam confuses your production overflow system. A change…
Korean boom industry turns to UK firm for pipeline guarantees
Added: 22 May 2019
Asia’s regasification sector is growing and this has increased interest in High Integrity Pressure …