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Process safety: barely begun

Added: 11 Mar 2015

Ten years on from the Buncefield explosion, only small steps have been taken to establish a process…

Manufacturing Barometer

Manufacturers to boost technology spend

Added: 24 Feb 2015

More than half of all small and medium sized (SME) manufacturers in England are planning to invest …

Robert Langer

Follow your heart, says prize winner

Added: 5 Feb 2015

Winner of the 2015 Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering Robert Langer has advised students to foll…

Stan Higgins

Gone from the wind – industrial CCS

Added: 4 Feb 2015

Almost half of the emissions that need to be captured to battle climate change come from the proces…

Robert Langer

Chemical engineer wins Queen's prize

Added: 3 Feb 2015

Chemical engineer and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) professor Robert Langer has today…

Students in the design phase of their degrees

Investment boost for engineering talent

Added: 15 Jan 2015

The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) is investing £1.2 million in up and coming engi…

money trees skills wealth

A wealth of opportunity

Added: 14 Jan 2015

Chemical engineering graduates earn some of the best salaries in the country. But does this stop th…

SIHI Isochem modular chemical pump

Flowserve buys Dutch pump manufacturer

Added: 8 Jan 2015

Pumps and valves manufacturer Flowserve yesterday confirmed it had completed its acquisition the Ne…

Nestle apprenctice at work Jordan Phillips

Manufacturers’ confidence halves

Added: 5 Jan 2015

Confidence among British manufacturers has dropped to nearly half the level it was at the start of …

National Grid

Grid encourages more plant shutdowns

Added: 15 Dec 2014

National Grid is encouraging more energy-intensive businesses to reduce their demand when electrici…

Osborne Alexander Autumn Statement

Autumn statement: formulation funding

Added: 3 Dec 2014

A new chemical formulation centre at the Centre for Process Innovation (CPI) has been awarded fundi…

Simdean Envirotec Plasma waste treatment

Plasma tackles chemical waste

Added: 3 Dec 2014

Simdean Envirotec has launched a plasma-based chemical waste elimination system in the UK which it …

Apateq onsite water separation

Pure play

Added: 12 Nov 2014

As global water regulations tighten, filtration technologies are evolving to help process industrie…

Pump Engineering CSF

Hygienic pumps

Added: 4 Nov 2014

Transfer liquids in food, brewing, pharmaceutical and other hygienic process applications with easy…

Emerson maintenance reliability management consulting

Emerson enters management consulting

Added: 3 Nov 2014

Emerson Process Management has launched a maintenance-focussed management consulting service to dev…

National Grid

The big turnoff

Added: 22 Oct 2014

Energy management has officially come of age.

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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 …

Karl-Ludwig Kley

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…

Energy saving

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…

Pharmaceutical industry must focus on manufacturing

Summer bounce for manufacturing

Added: 9 Sep 2014

Manufacturing and in particular process industries like pharmaceuticals returned to growth this sum…