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Pioneering UV pasteurisation aims to cut cost with greener approach
Added: 12 Mar 2024
Dairy pasteurisation has traditionally been a costly business for manufacturers, involving intricat…

A positive charge
Added: 27 Feb 2024
Although seen as a negative if essential investment, is it time to view cyber protection as a busin…

Not tomorrow but now
Added: 27 Feb 2024
Though much talk about AI is in the future tense, it is already embedded in many areas, including i…

AMRICC opening cements Staffs role as UK materials science centre
Added: 26 Feb 2024
Staffordshire has sealed its centuries-old reputation as the UK’s ceramics capital with the officia…

Chemicals and renewables’ lack of appeal leaves recruitment headache
Added: 26 Feb 2024
The renewables and chemicals sectors could be short of thousands of the skilled workers they need u…

2024 Pump Industry Awards Finalists Revealed
Added: 26 Feb 2024
Fifty finalists across eight categories are squaring up for the hotly contested honours at the 2024…

Tomorrow’s big process ideas start in the lab…
Added: 29 Jan 2024
Many of the biggest technological advances in the process industries begin with R&D in the lab. Fin…

Sensor offers new hope to counter ‘forever chemicals’ contamination
Added: 24 Jan 2024
New methods to combat the prevalence of per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) could provide a v…

Made Smarter 4.0 adoption is vital ingredient for manufacturing investment
Added: 24 Jan 2024
Industrial mentoring organisation Made Smarter reports that small to medium sized manufacturers (SM…

Days left to join MacRobert’s engineering hall of fame
Added: 11 Jan 2024
The deadline is fast approaching for the final chance this year to enter one of UK engineering's mo…

Case study: New cleanrooms prompt search for better monitoring system
Added: 11 Jan 2024
During preparations for the construction of two new cleanroom facilities, NorthX Biologics, a leadi…

Viewpoint: Working safely with heat transfer fluids in plastics manufacture
Added: 10 Jan 2024
Plastics and polymers are vital materials in manufacturing. Global Heat Transfer’s Clive Jones expl…

Case study: Pumps prove vital to decarbonisation and environmental materials
Added: 9 Jan 2024
Peristaltic pumps help decontaminate water at Cornish Metals’ new treatment plant in a former mine …

Trust for engineers nearly on a par with healthworkers
Added: 20 Dec 2023
A massive 85% of people surveyed say they trust engineers to tell the truth, says the latest Ipsos …

BCAS appoints Rohan as new president
Added: 20 Dec 2023
The British Compressed Air Society (BCAS) has appointed Steven Rohan as its new president in succes…

Agreement seals work on advanced materials innovation centre
Added: 20 Dec 2023
Global giant Tata Steel has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the UK’s national centr…

Doomsday alert: engineers are here to stay
Added: 29 Nov 2023
New technology has been replacing manual labour for millennia but even AI’s not going to be sidelin…

Industry applauds Autumn Statement support but seeks coherent plan
Added: 28 Nov 2023
Manufacturing and process industry chiefs have welcomed in principle the commitments made by Chance…

HSE issues stern warning against falsifying NDT records
Added: 15 Nov 2023
The Health & Safety Executive has issued a warning against attempting to falsify records for non-de…

Element makes a bid for dominant role in European clean energy market
Added: 15 Nov 2023
Global testing, inspection, and certification services company Element Materials Technology signall…