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The growth of electric boilers in UK industrial process heating
Added: 19 Nov 2025
Driven by government policy, market forces, and the urgency of decarbonisation, industry is rethink…
Back to Basics: checkweighing in food production lines
Added: 19 Nov 2025
Checkweighing plays a role in food manufacturing, meeting regulations, upholding product quality, b…
CBA reports slight improvements but background concerns for chemical sector
Added: 16 Nov 2025
Improvements in third quarter results within the chemicals sector have failed to allay concerns for…
Make UK delivers pre-Budget demand for manufacturing
Added: 16 Nov 2025
Britain’s manufacturers are pre-empting the forthcoming Budget by urging the Government to focus so…
KTP Awards mark 50th year and £2.3 billion value creation
Added: 16 Nov 2025
Innovate UK’s Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) Awards celebrated the scheme’s half century with…
Atlas Group purchases Anglian Compressors
Added: 16 Nov 2025
Anglian Compressors & Equipment, the Cambridgeshire-based compressed air distributor, has been acqu…
Former minister Halfon appointed to key Make UK role
Added: 19 Oct 2025
Make UK has appointed former Tory minister Robert Halfon as its new executive director responsible …
Start-up and college to launch industrial waste-to-feedstock trading platform
Added: 24 Oct 2025
A collaboration between a business startup and a college, aided by a biotech support organisation, …
Innovators saluted at 2025 IET Achievement Awards
Added: 24 Oct 2025
Pioneers in photovoltaics, physical computing, quantum and wearable tech dominated this year’s Inst…
Process news in brief: sector recruitment, expansions, training, appointments, contracts
Added: 25 Oct 2025
Hereford’s New Model Institute for Technology & Engineering (NMITE) is celebrating its largest-ever…
Fifty years of VSDs — and we’re just getting started
Added: 25 Oct 2025
Fifty years ago, an innovation quietly emerged that would go on to transform the way we power moder…
Beyond predictive maintenance: unlocking AI value
Added: 17 Oct 2025
Process industry consideration of AI’s potential tends to focus on predictive maintenance but often…
Acoustic emission testing: the sound approach to plant monitoring
Added: 7 Oct 2025
Breakthroughs in sensor technology and data interpretation are driving the rise of acoustic emissio…
From Paper to Predictive: overcoming cultural barriers in process industry digitalisation
Added: 24 Sep 2025
The technology’s already here, the legislative framework is encouraging process firms to endorse di…
Improving food contaminant detection: dual energy X-ray and photon counting
Added: 7 Sep 2025
Mettler-Toledo’s Mike Pipe explains how dual energy x-ray detection and advanced photon counting te…
Engineering bodies highlight STEM gender gaps as exam results revealed
Added: 21 Aug 2025
Engineering leaders have welcomed signs of progress in science and technology uptake among students…
RAEng mourns loss of former chief Sir David Davies
Added: 21 Aug 2025
Former Royal Academy of Engineering president and government adviser Sir David Davies has died at t…
PE news in brief: chemicals supply chain, steel closure, overtime issues
Added: 21 Aug 2025
The Chemical Business Association has reported “cautious optimism” in its Q2 2025 supply chain surv…
How AI can transform legacy oil and gas operations
Added: 3 Aug 2025
The oil and gas sector is undergoing seismic change. As part of the broader transition toward susta…
Six pointers that identify linear actuator quality
Added: 23 Jul 2025
Linear motion systems are used in processes the world over. Central to these systems is a linear ac…
