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Improving food contaminant detection: dual energy X-ray and photon counting

Added: 7 Sep 2025

Mettler-Toledo’s Mike Pipe explains how dual energy x-ray detection and advanced photon counting te…

PE news in brief: chemicals supply chain, steel closure, overtime issues

Added: 21 Aug 2025

The Chemical Business Association has reported “cautious optimism” in its Q2 2025 supply chain surv…

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How AI can transform legacy oil and gas operations

Added: 3 Aug 2025

The oil and gas sector is undergoing seismic change. As part of the broader transition toward susta…

Six pointers that identify linear actuator quality

Added: 23 Jul 2025

Linear motion systems are used in processes the world over. Central to these systems is a linear ac…

Busch co-founder Dr Karl Busch dies aged 96

Added: 22 Jul 2025

Dr Karl Busch, co-founder/owner of global vacuum specialist the Busch Group, has died at the age of…

Unravelling those digital buzzwords for the food sector

Added: 16 Jul 2025

Artificial Intelligence has become a buzzword but is often misunderstood and misrepresented in its …

Steel industry welcome for business secretary’s commitment to sector

Added: 3 Jul 2025

Business secretary Jonathan Reynolds, has “again shown that he is on the side of British industry i…

Wasteful packaging – industry’s Achilles heel

Added: 3 Jun 2025

To mark the recent World Environment Day, ABB’s Stefan Floeck called for less headline grabbing and…

Ofwat winners share £42 million for innovative projects

Added: 27 May 2025

Sixteen technology pioneers will share Ofwat funding of £42 million to aid development of their inn…

Balancing efficiency with safety in hazardous environments

Added: 22 May 2025

Electrical equipment used in hazardous chemical, oil and gas and processing environments must be de…

Why do we measure surface energy?

Added: 22 May 2025

Wettability is a prerequisite for adhesion and bonding, so understanding surface energy is critical…

Survey reveals why pharma chiefs prefer US to Europe

Added: 14 May 2025

New research from Bayes Business School urges greater cooperation and better incentives from EU mem…

Blackburn opens defoamer plant to take on the world

Added: 13 May 2025

Specialty chemicals company Blackburn Chemicals Limited has opened its new £14 million defoamer fac…

Milk production factory

Pharma sector suffers longest downtime disruptions says report

Added: 2 May 2025

UK and European pharmaceutical firms suffer the longest downtime disruptions of any industrial sect…

Europe accused of trailing Middle East on sustainable plastics policy

Added: 10 Apr 2025

The European Union is “stuck in the past” in its attitude to so-called oxo-biodegradable plastics, …

Entrepreneur Jackson is new Digital Catapult chair

Added: 10 Apr 2025

Entrepreneur and academic professor Keith Jackson is the new chair of deep tech accelerator Digital…

Trump tariffs add 10% for imports from UK but avoid 20% levied on EU

Added: 3 Apr 2025

Manufacturers and government have reacted with concern to the imposition of a 10% tariff on imports…

Endress+Hauser level and pressure centre chief killed in car crash

Added: 31 Mar 2025

Endress+Hauser Level+Pressure centre managing director Dr Dirk Mörmann has been killed in a car acc…

Closing the gate on criminality

Added: 30 Mar 2025

Richard Hilson argues that while every effort can be made to prevent attacks and burglaries on plan…

Fighting wars on factory settings

Added: 23 Mar 2025

Critical industries’ emergence as a target for hostile states reflects the increasingly digital asp…