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Chemical pumping proves its worth in the wider world
Added: 28 Apr 2021
As our March/April edition went to press, the Government was releasing early details of its legisla…

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

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…

'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…

Patent sense for pumps and pharmaceuticals
Added: 4 Sep 2019
The area where pumps intersects with pharma and biotech is thriving and growing. Patent application…

Stasis or industry for the process sectors?
Added: 22 Jul 2019
A mighty, Brexit-sized freeze frame has sat around the process industries for the last three years.

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…

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…

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…

Like football, pumps expertise requires thinking outside the box...
Added: 3 Sep 2018
“A competent pump supplier is somewhat like a competent coach, they should be able to offer more th…
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…