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After the COP26 show time, now It’s ‘how?’ time
Added: 10 Dec 2021
If we park the non-attendance of two of the world’s largest countries and greatest polluters, COP26…

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

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…

Remember to count industry among the climate worriers
Added: 13 May 2019
The appearances of the youthful environmentalist Greta Thunberg have drawn some predictably Old Buf…

Look East for pumps priorities
Added: 13 May 2019
Even before the axis of global power had shifted so far eastwards, we had grown accustomed to laggi…

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…

Industry strategy can't wait for Westminster
Added: 3 Sep 2018
Government and industry appear to occupy two parallel universes when it comes to the subject of 29 …
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…