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Chancellor George Osborne Budget

Industry pushes for Budget energy discounts

Added: 3 Mar 2014

Manufacturing organisations are calling on Chancellor George Osborne to roll back the cost of vario…

BP chemicals plant facility

Efficiency evangelists needed to fight cuts

Added: 18 Feb 2014

A combination of government funding cuts to support for energy efficiency measures and waning inter…

Sir William Wakeham

Systems must drive engineering degrees

Added: 18 Feb 2014

Former IChemE president Sir William Wakeham calls for the process systems community to take a great…

BP chemicals plant facility

If China falls, will the UK rise?

Added: 17 Feb 2014

The BBC tomorrow airs a programme investigating the dangerously-high levels of debt sustaining Chin…

Chemical Plant

Homeward bound

Added: 12 Feb 2014

If, like me, you watched this weekend’s episode of the BBC show Top Gear, you would have seen their…

Cutting the cord

Interlink establishes UK base

Added: 12 Feb 2014

US human machine interface (HMI) and sensor technology firm Interlink Electronics has announced it …

Vince Cable

“Reshore UK” scheme launched

Added: 31 Jan 2014

The Government has launched a new “one-stop-shop” service to help manufacturing firms return produc…

Pharmaceutical industry must focus on manufacturing

Pharma must focus on processes

Added: 31 Jan 2014

The pharmaceutical industry should replace an era of huge R&D spend with focus on production effici…

GSK process safety module

Beating Asia on price

Added: 22 Jan 2014

This week I met the boss of a UK firm that exports worldwide and is able to compete with rivals in …

Grating formation by two beam interference

Chemicals and pharma research funding boost

Added: 9 Jan 2014

The Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council has announced £3.6m funding for manufacturing …

Offshore wind farm at dusk

Plan to pay process plants to use electricity

Added: 7 Jan 2014

Exclusive: National Grid is considering paying major energy users such as process plants to use ele…

GSK process safety module

GSK to pilot process safety course

Added: 2 Dec 2013

GlaxoSmithKline has partnered with the University of Sheffield to develop a short course that addre…

PSM is deemed by the HSE to be a ‘hot topic’ for high-hazard sites

Communication is key to safety

Added: 29 Nov 2013

Process safety management is a constantly evolving field, but good communication remains fundamenta…

CCS plant

Manufacturing hits 18-year high

Added: 21 Nov 2013

UK manufacturing growth over the past three months was its strongest for 18 years, according to the…

Telstar barrier systems

High containment barrier systems

Added: 20 Nov 2013

Telstar has developed its latest range of high containment barrier system designed for APIs manufac…

Energy efficient technologies aren't always implemented

Cost concerns limit energy efficiency investment

Added: 12 Nov 2013

Financial concerns trump environmental ones when it comes to considering investment in energy effic…

Centrifugal air compressor

Ingersoll Rand launches efficient centrifugal compressor

Added: 7 Nov 2013

The Centac C800 centrifugal air compressor is designed for assembly, automotive food and beverage, …

Telstar combi water system

Telstar unveils integrated water systems solution

Added: 7 Nov 2013

Biopharmaceutical firm Telstar will present its latest water-for-injection unit with storage storag…

Centralised control room

Control rooms play catch-up

Added: 5 Nov 2013

They are present in most households and even my three-year old can operate one, so why are process …

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Process industries “ignoring” cyber threat

Added: 5 Nov 2013

Owners and operators of process plants are failing to take the threat of system software hacking se…