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Dairy ‘bible’ launches new edition with eye on sustainability
Added: 14 May 2025
Tetra Pak’s latest edition of the Dairy Processing Handbook includes new chapters focussing on resp…
Blackburn opens defoamer plant to take on the world
Added: 13 May 2025
Specialty chemicals company Blackburn Chemicals Limited has opened its new £14 million defoamer fac…
Balancing supply and demands
Added: 18 Mar 2025
Pharmaceutical manufacturing is becoming subject to greater disruption says Aggreko’s Craig Akers, …
Pharma sector suffers longest downtime disruptions says report
Added: 2 May 2025
UK and European pharmaceutical firms suffer the longest downtime disruptions of any industrial sect…
Process sectors’ new jobs opportunity: acoustics
Added: 2 May 2025
Workplace safety experts are urging graduates interested in environmental issues to consider a care…
Eighth Veolia hazardous waste station opens for business
Added: 2 May 2025
Veolia has begun operations at its new 25,000 tonnes per annum capacity hazardous waste transfer st…
Deadline for £50k science and engineering scholarship extended to 10 May
Added: 10 Apr 2025
The deadline to apply for a new £50k scholarship administered by the National Physical Laboratory h…
Europe accused of trailing Middle East on sustainable plastics policy
Added: 10 Apr 2025
The European Union is “stuck in the past” in its attitude to so-called oxo-biodegradable plastics, …
ADE warns against two tier approach to net zero
Added: 10 Apr 2025
Factories and business that lie outside government-supported industry clusters are being overlooked…
Entrepreneur Jackson is new Digital Catapult chair
Added: 10 Apr 2025
Entrepreneur and academic professor Keith Jackson is the new chair of deep tech accelerator Digital…
Trump tariffs add 10% for imports from UK but avoid 20% levied on EU
Added: 3 Apr 2025
Manufacturers and government have reacted with concern to the imposition of a 10% tariff on imports…
Endress+Hauser level and pressure centre chief killed in car crash
Added: 31 Mar 2025
Endress+Hauser Level+Pressure centre managing director Dr Dirk Mörmann has been killed in a car acc…
Defence commitment boosts industry response to spring statement
Added: 27 Mar 2025
Manufacturers have welcomed the defence spending commitments in Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ spring st…
Fighting wars on factory settings
Added: 23 Mar 2025
Critical industries’ emergence as a target for hostile states reflects the increasingly digital asp…
The keys to keeping emissions in check
Added: 21 Mar 2025
Monitoring systems have been central to the substantial reduction in greenhouse gas emissions in th…
AI pioneer spin-out Polaron wins inaugural £1 million Manchester Prize
Added: 24 Mar 2025
The first ever award of the new £1 million Manchester Prize for UK-led AI breakthroughs has gone to…
Universities fear boost to young apprentices will undermine employee retraining
Added: 20 Mar 2025
A substantial majority of UK universities polled say pending government reform of apprenticeships w…
PFA rules drive massive increase in testing demand says TÜV Rheinland
Added: 20 Mar 2025
Stricter rules on per- and polyfluoroalkyl substance (PFAS) use worldwide has led to a 30% rise in …
Tomlinson Hall leads the pack at 2025 Pump Industry Association awards
Added: 18 Mar 2025
Tomlinson Hall led the field at the 2025 Pump Industry Association awards, winning two out of 10 ca…
EU eight call for critical chemicals law for access to industry building blocks
Added: 14 Mar 2025
Eight European Union member states have issued a demand for an EU critical chemicals act to address…
