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Viewpoint: Working safely with heat transfer fluids in plastics manufacture

Added: 13 Mar 2024

Plastics and polymers are vital materials in manufacturing. Global Heat Transfer’s Clive Jones expl…

Retrofitting ageing pump systems offers energy savings and compliance

Added: 12 Mar 2024

Retrofits to outdated heating, cooling and water systems enable cost savings on the road to sustain…

Cheese

Pioneering UV pasteurisation aims to cut cost with greener approach

Added: 12 Mar 2024

Dairy pasteurisation has traditionally been a costly business for manufacturers, involving intricat…

BP chemicals plant facility

Chemicals and renewables’ lack of appeal leaves recruitment headache

Added: 26 Feb 2024

The renewables and chemicals sectors could be short of thousands of the skilled workers they need u…

2024 Pump Industry Awards Finalists Revealed

Added: 26 Feb 2024

Fifty finalists across eight categories are squaring up for the hotly contested honours at the 2024…

Days left to join MacRobert’s engineering hall of fame

Added: 11 Jan 2024

The deadline is fast approaching for the final chance this year to enter one of UK engineering's mo…

Case study: New cleanrooms prompt search for better monitoring system

Added: 11 Jan 2024

During preparations for the construction of two new cleanroom facilities, NorthX Biologics, a leadi…

BCAS appoints Rohan as new president

Added: 20 Dec 2023

The British Compressed Air Society (BCAS) has appointed Steven Rohan as its new president in succes…

Industry applauds Autumn Statement support but seeks coherent plan 

Added: 28 Nov 2023

Manufacturing and process industry chiefs have welcomed in principle the commitments made by Chance…

HSE issues stern warning against falsifying NDT records

Added: 15 Nov 2023

The Health & Safety Executive has issued a warning against attempting to falsify records for non-de…

Manufacturing Barometer

Manufacturing’s big guns urge pre-Election stand on industry future

Added: 15 Nov 2023

Leaders of the UK’s five most dominant manufacturing sectors are demanding UK political parties ple…

Apprentices

Poll reveals shift in public attitudes towards manufacturing careers

Added: 13 Oct 2023

A recent UK poll suggests public perception of careers in manufacturing has become markedly more po…

White Paper: AODD pump choice drives sustainable manufacturing

Added: 7 Oct 2023

Choosing the right AODD Pump helps cut energy consumption, optimise air usage and promote sustainab…

A perception gap

Added: 13 Sep 2023

Our chemicals industry has an image problem when it comes to recruitment. Why, when it’s key to ach…

Rotork – connecting our digital future

Added: 13 Sep 2023

Rotork is excited to introduce the new IQ3 Pro actuator with full mobile app integration.

Two handed touchy-feely robot can pick a peck of pickled Pringles

Added: 10 Sep 2023

Scientists at the University of Bristol say their AI enhanced, bi-manual robot has achieved ‘near-h…

Industrial sector continues to be prime cyber target

Added: 6 Sep 2023

Cyber security leader NCC Group’s latest data confirms that the industrial sector continues to be t…

Latest PMI results produce a chorus of industry warnings

Added: 4 Sep 2023

Manufacturers have reacted with gloom to the latest CIPS UK manufacturing purchasing managers’ inde…

Process industries’ relief as Government shelves CE replacement plans ‘indefinitely’

Added: 15 Aug 2023

Process industry firms and organisations have reacted with relief to the announcement that the UK w…

Chemical industry ‘must be seen as crucial to net zero or struggle to attract talent’

Added: 15 Aug 2023

Public belief that the chemicals industry is not key to achieving net zero is undermining its recru…