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From talking to walking on water strategy
Added: 10 Dec 2020
The water industry may be vast but it is a mistake to represent it as some sort of industrial monol…

Pumps, the true transformers
Added: 10 Dec 2020
Sustainability, the new regulatory regime and lockdown, our feature on page 7 notes, are transformi…

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…

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…

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.

Pumps sector must enhance its automation awareness
Added: 14 Jan 2019
The recent success of Seepex’s award-winning Smart Dosing Pump at last year’s ACHEMA show is a remi…

Pumps are a vital partner in ensuring efficient energy use
Added: 12 Nov 2018
Pumps as Turbines (PaT) are a symbol of the potential contribution that products from this industry…

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…

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…
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…

Editor’s comment: sizing up pumps
Rob Smith | Added: 24 May 2016
Pumps are vital. Without them, the process industries would come to a grinding halt.
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