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Manufacturers ready to invest in new kit
Added: 21 Aug 2013
A government-funded survey of small and medium-sized manufacturers today revealed that half of the …
Atlas Copco to buy Edwards for £1bn
Added: 19 Aug 2013
Sweden’s Atlas Copco this morning announced it had agreed a deal to acquire UK vacuum pump manufact…
Choosing the right coveralls
Added: 14 Aug 2013
While effective in treating disease, cytostatic drugs are potentially hazardous for the healthcare …
Wireless devices communicate without batteries
Added: 14 Aug 2013
Engineers from the University of Washington have designed a wireless communication system that allo…
Operators failing to maintain pipe networks
Added: 12 Aug 2013
Companies are at risk of being hit with unexpected bills if they fail to maintain their supporting …
Chemical engineer to lead AMEC infrastructure team
Added: 12 Aug 2013
Project manager AMEC has appointed chemical engineer Rob Brown as managing director of its Environm…
Biofactories of the future
Added: 7 Aug 2013
Scaling-up synthetic biology from the lab bench to the process plant presents both challenges and o…
Threat to Schneider's Invensys takeover
Added: 2 Aug 2013
Schneider’s proposed £3.4 billion takeover of Invensys is still under threat of being beaten by a b…
Process automation market to hit $124bn
Added: 1 Aug 2013
Revenues in the global process automation market are expected to grow at a rate of over 6% per year…
Schneider acquires Invensys for £3.4bn
Added: 31 Jul 2013
UK-based Invensys today accepted an offer from France’s Schneider Electric to acquire the company f…
Siemens names Kaeser as new CEO
Added: 31 Jul 2013
Siemens today replaced CEO Peter Loescher with the company’s chief financial officer Joe Kaeser.
Lords probe waste and the bioeconomy
Added: 26 Jul 2013
The House of Lords’ Science and Technology Committee yesterday launched an inquiry into waste and t…
Oil majors partner IChemE on safety
Added: 25 Jul 2013
Leading oil firms including Shell and ExxonMobil have signed up to become the first industry partne…
DuPont may sell performance chemicals arm
Added: 25 Jul 2013
US giant DuPont yesterday announced it was consider the sale or spinning-off of all or part of its …
Reaction cuts chemical production costs
Added: 25 Jul 2013
Experts at the University of Texas at Austin (UTA) believe they have discovered an organic reaction…
First rise for manufacturing orders in a year
Added: 24 Jul 2013
New orders in the UK’s manufacturing sector rose in the three months to July for the first time in …
Championing change
Added: 8 Jul 2013
Stan Higgins, director of the North East of England Process Industry Cluster, is on a mission to ch…
Technique set to produce renewable chemicals
Added: 4 Jul 2013
Researchers from Liverpool University have been awarded funding to develop renewable chemicals prod…
Are we learning the lessons?
Added: 3 Jul 2013
The process sectors need to take on-board the lessons learned from recent disasters. Patrick Raleig…
Protecting against chemicals
Added: 2 Jul 2013
Ian Samson, training specialist for DuPont, offers his insight into protective equipment for those …
