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Manufacturers’ confidence halves
Added: 5 Jan 2015
Confidence among British manufacturers has dropped to nearly half the level it was at the start of …
Grid encourages more plant shutdowns
Added: 15 Dec 2014
National Grid is encouraging more energy-intensive businesses to reduce their demand when electrici…
Autumn statement: formulation funding
Added: 3 Dec 2014
A new chemical formulation centre at the Centre for Process Innovation (CPI) has been awarded fundi…
Plasma tackles chemical waste
Added: 3 Dec 2014
Simdean Envirotec has launched a plasma-based chemical waste elimination system in the UK which it …
Pure play
Added: 12 Nov 2014
As global water regulations tighten, filtration technologies are evolving to help process industrie…
Hygienic pumps
Added: 4 Nov 2014
Transfer liquids in food, brewing, pharmaceutical and other hygienic process applications with easy…
Emerson enters management consulting
Added: 3 Nov 2014
Emerson Process Management has launched a maintenance-focussed management consulting service to dev…
Process sectors lead productivity growth
Added: 22 Oct 2014
The pharmaceutical and chemical sectors were today named by the government as the two sectors most …
Merck buys Sigma-Aldrich for £10bn
Added: 22 Sep 2014
Pharma and chemicals giant Merck has agreed to buy life sciences firm Sigma-Aldrich for approximate…
National Grid awards “shutdown” contracts
Added: 11 Sep 2014
National Grid is in the process of awarding contracts to major energy users such as process facilit…
Summer bounce for manufacturing
Added: 9 Sep 2014
Manufacturing and in particular process industries like pharmaceuticals returned to growth this sum…
Integration or bust
Added: 3 Sep 2014
The UK’s chemical industry may be sleepwalking into further decline due to the lack of industry lea…
Energy efficiency spend to rise, says Siemens
Added: 3 Sep 2014
More than two thirds of UK manufacturers are planning to increase investment in energy management o…
Increased production squeezes innovation
Added: 4 Aug 2014
Manufacturers’ spending on innovation is slowing as firms attempt to manage rising output levels, a…
Just 6% of engineers are women
Added: 31 Jul 2014
On average just 6% of engineers in the UK are female, with the highest proportions occuring in the …
Innovation spend hits 25-year high
Added: 23 Jul 2014
The number of manufacturers planning to invest in product and process innovation is at its highest …
Pharma firms to offer up compounds
Added: 23 Jul 2014
Seven pharmaceuticals companies are offering up their deprioritised compounds to UK researchers.
Foreign investment up in process sectors
Added: 21 Jul 2014
Nearly a fifth of all foreign investment in the UK is going to projects in the process sectors, acc…
Process champions moved in reshuffle
Added: 15 Jul 2014
Two key allies of the process industries were today removed from their posts by Prime Minister Davi…
