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Cyber security: fighting talk

Rob Smith | Added: 11 Jan 2016

Cyber security is a multi-faceted beast, therefore plant operators must be prepared to defend their…

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…

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…

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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…

Soft assets - Agility

Soft assets: energy management

Added: 1 Dec 2015

Squeezing more efficiency from plant equipment is the next frontier for CMMS.

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…

Carlsberg

Carlsberg to slash workforce

Added: 13 Nov 2015

Carlsberg announced plans to cut 2000 jobs this week as it revealed a DKr4.499bn (£425m) net loss i…

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Amec Foster inks graphene deal

Added: 9 Nov 2015

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

Tata Steel Scunthorpe works

EU agrees to crisis steel meeting

Added: 30 Oct 2015

EU ministers have agreed to hold an emergency meeting on the UK steel crisis following an appeal fr…

Water research, Sheffield University lab

UK water research gets £3.9m boost

Added: 20 Oct 2015

A new £3.9million research project has been established to help meet the UK’s future needs for a cl…

Tata Newport foundary

Call for 'urgent' action on UK steel

Added: 19 Oct 2015

The UK government has laid out its strategy to assist the ailing steel sector following a crisis su…

cyber hack security

Battle stations: industrial cyber crime

Rob Smith | Added: 19 Oct 2015

As computer hackers set sight on industrial targets, cyber security experts are throwing their weig…

White Rose CCS carbon capture Drax

Urgent call for CCS funding

Added: 7 Oct 2015

Targets for lowering carbon emissions from industry will remain out of reach without carbon dioxide…

Severn Trent Water

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…

United Utilities reservoir

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…

Condition monitoring

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…

GlaxoSmithKline R&D

GSK teams up with Siemens

Added: 16 Sep 2015

Siemens has signed a global deal with GlaxoSmithKline to supply automation equipment and services t…

Wessex Water

Wessex Water lifts boil notice

Added: 14 Sep 2015

Wessex Water has lifted a ’boil water’ notice affecting 250 of its customers in the Somerset area.

Neway

Gleam team

Added: 2 Sep 2015

Neway, an industrial cleaning specialist based in the north west of England, completed maintenance …

Food and drink sector

'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…