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Low-cost capacitance level switch
Added: 6 Oct 2015
Endress+Hauser has launched the Minicap FTC260/262, an easy-to-install, low-cost capacitance level …

Kerry opens food innovation hub
Added: 5 Oct 2015
Kerry Group has opened a €100m (£74m) global technology and innovation centre in Ireland.

Electricity supply a 'waste' of energy
Added: 5 Oct 2015
More than half of the energy used to supply the UK’s electricity is wasted before it ever reaches c…

Severn Trent fined for sewage leak
Added: 29 Sep 2015
Severn Trent Water has been fined £480,000 after a series of incidents that caused raw sewage to le…

Hot spot: thermal monitoring technology
Added: 28 Sep 2015
Food manufacturers use thermal monitoring technology to control a wide variety of their processes. …

Utility counts cost of water bug
Added: 23 Sep 2015
United Utilities revealed today that water quality issues suffered in Lancashire last month would c…

Amazon UK to supply industry and labs
Added: 22 Sep 2015
Amazon today launched an online industrial and scientific supply store in the UK, which it says wil…

Maintenance slump a 'critical risk'
Added: 17 Sep 2015
A new study has revealed a downward slide for maintenance budgets among UK manufacturers, putting t…

Under control
Added: 8 Sep 2015
Safety systems are the first-response unit when things go wrong in a process plant, preventing smal…

New detector tackles tiny particles
Added: 8 Sep 2015
Air Monitors has launched in the UK what it describes as the world’s smallest nanoparticle detector…

Gleam team
Added: 2 Sep 2015
Neway, an industrial cleaning specialist based in the north west of England, completed maintenance …

Compressor wins IMechE funding
Added: 1 Sep 2015
Midlands-based firm Lontra has been named as one of the first to receive a funding boost from the I…

Dose of colour
Added: 26 Aug 2015
New pumps boost uptime and reduce maintenance times at French aluminium powder coating plant.

'Bouyant' outlook for food sector
Added: 25 Aug 2015
Growth in the UK food and drink manufacturing sector is forecast to rise between 3-4% over the next…

UK manufacturers boast innovation
Added: 24 Aug 2015
Manufacturers in the UK are using innovation to deliver productivity improvements and export growth…

ScottishPower to close Longannet
Added: 19 Aug 2015
ScottishPower has announced plans to close its coal-fired Longannet Power Station in March next yea…

Portable non-contact thermometers
Added: 12 Aug 2015
AMETEK Land has introduced four new Cyclops L portable non-contact thermometers.

The power of cold
Added: 11 Aug 2015
Backup gensets offer a resilient means of protecting plant processes, but they are not sustainable …

Water industry scores with service
Added: 7 Aug 2015
Water companies enjoy a better reputation with the public than other utilities, according to a rece…

Enel boosts geothermal plant with biomass
Added: 6 Aug 2015
Enel Green Power has built the world’s first biomass plant tasked with boosting efficiency of geoth…