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Chemicals sector finds Brexit's sunlit uplands hard to REACH

Added: 28 Apr 2021

Brexit’s sunlit uplands are proving difficult to access and, for one sector at least, the blame for…

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 …

Kerry food hub

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…

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…

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

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…

Mark Cavendish Kevlar helmet

Engineering sporting brilliance

Added: 28 May 2014

Here at Process Engineering we aim to please. As the Brazil World Cup approaches, followed by Wimbl…