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Yoghurt recall hits UK retailers
Added: 1 Aug 2016
Yeo Valley has recalled a number of chilled yoghurt products over fears that they may contain piece…
Smart plastics to ‘sense’ equipment failure
Added: 14 Jul 2016
Igus, a German developer of specialist plastics, has unveiled new products to add Industry 4.0 capa…
Mars sinks £23m into Norfolk food plant
Added: 12 Jul 2016
Mars Food has announced plans to invest £23 million into food processing facilities at its King's L…
Viewpoint: the great cloud computing migration
Added: 20 Jun 2016
Manufacturers need to embrace cloud computing if they are to reap the benefits across all their pro…
Food waste firm fined for toxic gas hazard
Added: 16 Jun 2016
A food waste disposal and recycling company has been fined £250,000 after three employees were over…
Yorkshire Water ordered to pay record £1.1m fine
Added: 4 May 2016
Yorkshire Water was fined £1.1million last week for a pump failure in 2013 that caused pollution to…
Emerson eBook 'improves operations'
Added: 6 Apr 2016
Emerson Process Management has published a white paper series under the title ‘Improve Operations P…
IChemE archive puts safety first
Added: 6 Apr 2016
First published by the IChemE in 1974, its Loss Prevention Bulletin (LPB) has become a well-establi…
Aldi suspends biscuit supply over contamination fears
Added: 31 Mar 2016
Aldi has suspended all orders from the UK supplier of a range of its biscuits amid concerns over “p…
Thames Water fined £380k for polluting stream
Added: 9 Mar 2016
Thames Water has been fined £380,000 for polluting a rural stream in Buckinghamshire over a series …
'Urgent rethink' on energy storage key to cutting power bills
Added: 3 Mar 2016
A new Carbon Trust report has revealed that the introduction of more efficient energy storage syste…
Show Preview: March of Maintec
Added: 25 Feb 2016
The Maintec exhibition is set to return to Birmingham’s NEC next month.
Age defying assets
Rob Smith | Added: 24 Feb 2016
Operators need more robust strategies when maintaining ageing equipment, writes Robert Smith.
AkzoNobel to snap up BASF coatings business
Added: 17 Feb 2016
AkzoNobel, the Dutch specialty chemicals company, has announced plans to buy BASF’s industrial coat…
Arla Foods to cut 500 jobs in global reorganisation
Added: 9 Feb 2016
Arla Foods, one of the largest dairy groups in Europe, has announced plans to cut 500 jobs as part …
Calibration: monitoring the vital signs
Louisa Hearn | Added: 9 Feb 2016
As process control instruments proliferate in the plant, operators are turning to new technologies …
Smart fix: modern maintenance
Rob Smith | Added: 3 Feb 2016
Maintenance regimes are moving far beyond the world of run to failure.
Tata opts for wiser waste
Added: 26 Jan 2016
A steel plant in Wales has updated its effluent treatment process.
UK ‘facing an electricity crisis’
Added: 26 Jan 2016
A report published by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) suggests the UK is threatene…
Calibration: Field factors
Added: 22 Jan 2016
The case for calibrating equipment in either a workshop or the field is not always black and white,…
