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Planning gains
Added: 4 Feb 2021
History provides numerous instances of catastrophic events providing the catalyst for radical econo…

Clean machines
Added: 4 Feb 2021
The crucial role of pumping systems in influencing the world’s energy usage for better or worse is …

A new era beckons for the food and drink sector
Added: 14 Feb 2020
A recent article in the press drew a comparison between the modern fast food sector and the clothin…

Small process innovations can create great advances
Added: 14 Feb 2020
In this age of disruption, there’s a tendency to regard innovation in terms of monumental, eye-catc…

'Interesting times' beckon for pharma and biotech
Added: 4 Sep 2019
The scale of pharmaceutical counterfeiting can be staggering to behold – whether in terms of the nu…

Pumps maintenance needs to combine DIY with good advice
Added: 22 Jul 2019
Do it Yourself is a motto best applied with caution within the increasingly refined pumps systems a…

Technical advance helps downstream negotiate the petrochemical switch
Added: 19 Mar 2019
“Global energy demand is growing… fuelled by a bigger middle class coming on the market with more c…

Digitalisation could transform oil and gas pumping
Added: 19 Mar 2019
The concept of reliability is both a watchword and in some ways a curse for the oil and gas sector.

Food sector will have a substantial diet of change to digest
Added: 14 Jan 2019
If every process firm in the UK food and drink sector qualified as a so-called ‘top quartile perfor…

A process sector that lies on the cyber frontline, daily
Added: 12 Nov 2018
Of all the various process industries, the energy and utilities sectors are the most at risk in tod…

Food sector's waste management proves its adaptability
Added: 12 Sep 2018
The Food and drink industry has reason to view the immediate economic future with trepidation.

When you invest in pumps, you invest in industry's future
Added: 12 Sep 2018
Beyond the sectors in which they operate, pumps have a profile so low that they might as well be no…
Water recycling achieves a full circle
Added: 8 May 2018
What would those great Victorian public health pioneers John Snow and Joseph Bazalgette have made o…

Investing in pumps modernisation is essential for survival
Added: 8 May 2018
It’s a bald reminder to anyone who assesses a product’s overall cost purely on the basis of its pri…
Another dimension for pumps
Added: 6 Apr 2018
The traditional belief in the oil and gas industry that reliability needs to come first where techn…

Brand new age for STEM recruitment
Added: 22 Mar 2018
Words such as branding and marketing are, one suspects, anathema to the average engineer.

Have a safe summer
Added: 3 Jun 2015
So summer is here, and there’s more than whiff of safety issues in the air.
Safety: a ticking timebomb
Added: 11 Mar 2015
Later this year the process industry will mark an anniversary it would prefer to forget: 10 years s…