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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 …

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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…

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Review calls for young engineers

Added: 4 Nov 2013

The Perkins Review will highlight the need to attract more young people to careers within the engin…

The Cambridge MBA offers scholarship for process engineers

Added: 14 Oct 2013

Watch this interview with past LyondellBasell Cambridge MBA Scholarship recipient, now part of a le…

Portable GC-MS

Portable GC-MS for onsite “lab analysis”

Added: 2 Oct 2013

Quantitech has launched a unique portable gas chromatograph toroidal ion trap mass spectrometer (GC…

David Willetts

£400m for science and engineering studies

Added: 30 Sep 2013

Today the government announced a £400 million investment to boost science and engineering study in …

Chocolate manufacturing plant

Manufacturing orders hit new high

Added: 19 Sep 2013

UK manufacturing order levels are now at their highest level since the financial crisis, according …

Biomass

Biofuels firm hiring for industrial upscale

Added: 19 Sep 2013

French biofuels company Global Bioenergies today announced its latest management hire as it begins …

Lab to manufacturing research scheme

Move to boost lab and manufacturing links

Added: 19 Sep 2013

The Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) has announced a fellowship scheme to s…