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Heat exchanger

Step change for heat exchangers

Added: 11 Jan 2016

The transition from shell-and-tube to plate heat exchangers is gathering pace, writes Michelle Knot…

Endress+Hauser RFID tags

RFID tags reduce maintenance costs

Added: 11 Jan 2016

Endress+Hauser has launched a range of RFID tags that are designed to ease the identification of me…

Outlook remains bleak for manufacturing

Added: 11 Jan 2016

Manufacturers in the UK are expecting 2016 to be fraught with tough decisions and risks, one indust…

IoT

UK launches IoT research hub

Added: 6 Jan 2016

A £23 million Internet of Things (IoT) Research Hub led by University College London (UCL) has been…

SICK

SICK launches 3D vision sensor

Added: 6 Jan 2016

SICK has launched the TriSpector 1000, its first ‘plug-and-play’ 3D vision sensor in the UK.

condenser tubes cleaning service

Cleaning service for condenser tubes

Added: 6 Jan 2016

Corroserve is offering a dedicated condenser tubes cleaning service performed by its team of engine…

Clean sweep

Clean screens

Louisa Hearn | Added: 6 Jan 2016

Self-cleaning filters are making steady inroads into production processes, writes Louisa Hearn.

Ashtead critical care

Critical care

Added: 17 Dec 2015

There are real advantages to be gained from renting specialist equipment, writes Will Russell of As…

grit calculator image

Online calculator combats grit costs

Added: 17 Dec 2015

Hydro International has launched an industry tool to help assess the  full operating cost impact of…

Eclipse to showcase magnetic solutions electromagnets

Eclipse to showcase magnetic solutions

Added: 9 Dec 2015

Eclipse Magnetics will be at the Southern Manufacturing and Electronics exhibition 2016, showcasing…

Microsoft founder, Bill Gates

Billionaires' club to fund clean energy

Added: 3 Dec 2015

Tech billionaires Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg have joined a cast of high-profile executives in a…

Paris COP21

CBI calls for global climate plan

Added: 30 Nov 2015

British businesses have joined the call for world leaders to forge a global action plan at the UN C…

White Rose CCS carbon capture Drax

Government scraps CCS funding

Added: 27 Nov 2015

The UK government rocked the industrial sector this week with the news that it had scrapped its £1 …

Iceland ready-meals

Research boost for ready-meals

Added: 26 Nov 2015

Industrial gas supplier BOC has begun a two-year project to develop a cooking and cooling system ai…

Bruce Calder, CTO Honeywell Process Solutions

Small and potentially mighty

Added: 20 Nov 2015

Big data, the industrial internet of things, smart integration and the cloud are all buzzwords we c…

SSE Ferrybridge coal power station

UK coal-fired plants to close

Added: 18 Nov 2015

The UK’s coal-fired power stations will be shut down within the next ten years, energy secretary Am…

Graphene impression

Amec Foster inks graphene deal

Added: 9 Nov 2015

Amec Foster Wheeler has been appointed the preferred engineering partner to Applied Graphene Materi…

Saltend stench tackled with £30m investment

Utility combats odour issues

Added: 9 Nov 2015

Yorkshire Water has developed a £30 million action plan to tackle odours from its Saltend wastewate…

South West Water treatment works

South West Water hit with sewage fine

Added: 4 Nov 2015

South West Water was fined £214,000 by Plymouth Crown Court last week after sewage leaked into the …

Food and drink manufacturing

Food workshop envisions future

Added: 28 Oct 2015

The Food and Drink Federation (FDF) will host a workshop next month that aims to deliver a step-cha…