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CHEMUK 2024: A focus on the process

Added: 17 Apr 2024

Process engineering has always been a strong element of the annual show but this year, for the firs…

Government award to power up industry’s cutting edge computing

Added: 16 Apr 2024

The Centre for Modelling and Simulation (CFMS) has been awarded £2.4 million of funding from the De…

Petrochem woes compounded by spare parts shortage, claims report

Added: 16 Apr 2024

Spare parts sourcing for cooling, heating, steam and compressed air equipment is becoming more prob…

Inspection tech keeps wet pet food production safe, compliant and optimised

Added: 12 Apr 2024

Wet pet food manufacturers understand the importance of meeting high standards while safeguarding t…

Patents pending

Added: 28 Mar 2024

Exciting advances in agritech will impact the food and drink sector. They also open up new regulato…

UK tops peers in EPO patent applications

Added: 25 Mar 2024

UK innovators their increased year on year European patent applications by a larger percentage than…

Climate, skills and environment top another successful PIA Awards

Added: 25 Mar 2024

Global climate change, the skills gap and environmental regeneration all featured among this year’s…

Metrohm Process Analytics launches an online Raman analyser for process monitoring and optimisation

Added: 20 Mar 2024

Accurate process monitoring presents several challenges in the PAT world. The complexities of some …

Retrofitting ageing pump systems offers energy savings and compliance

Added: 12 Mar 2024

Retrofits to outdated heating, cooling and water systems enable cost savings on the road to sustain…

A positive charge

Added: 27 Feb 2024

Although seen as a negative if essential investment, is it time to view cyber protection as a busin…

Not tomorrow but now

Added: 27 Feb 2024

Though much talk about AI is in the future tense, it is already embedded in many areas, including i…

AMRICC opening cements Staffs role as UK materials science centre

Added: 26 Feb 2024

Staffordshire has sealed its centuries-old reputation as the UK’s ceramics capital with the officia…

How much fluoride is in your water?

Added: 25 Feb 2024

Fluoride will be added to drinking water for millions of people in the UK under new legal powers. I…

Tomorrow’s big process ideas start in the lab…

Added: 29 Jan 2024

Many of the biggest technological advances in the process industries begin with R&D in the lab. Fin…

Sensor offers new hope to counter ‘forever chemicals’ contamination

Added: 24 Jan 2024

New methods to combat the prevalence of per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) could provide a v…

Made Smarter 4.0 adoption is vital ingredient for manufacturing investment

Added: 24 Jan 2024

Industrial mentoring organisation Made Smarter reports that small to medium sized manufacturers (SM…

Case study: New cleanrooms prompt search for better monitoring system

Added: 11 Jan 2024

During preparations for the construction of two new cleanroom facilities, NorthX Biologics, a leadi…

Viewpoint: Working safely with heat transfer fluids in plastics manufacture

Added: 10 Jan 2024

Plastics and polymers are vital materials in manufacturing. Global Heat Transfer’s Clive Jones expl…

BCAS appoints Rohan as new president

Added: 20 Dec 2023

The British Compressed Air Society (BCAS) has appointed Steven Rohan as its new president in succes…

Doomsday alert: engineers are here to stay

Added: 29 Nov 2023

New technology has been replacing manual labour for millennia but even AI’s not going to be sidelin…