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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Brand new age for STEM recruitment
Added: 22 Mar 2018
Words such as branding and marketing are, one suspects, anathema to the average engineer.
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It's do or die for food industry digitalisation
Added: 5 Jan 2018
How many times do we hear the assertion that necessity is the mother of invention? Let us hope that…
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We must help MPs understand the importance of the process industries
Added: 6 Nov 2017
There is, we know, a substantial job of work to do in terms of enabling the rest of the United King…
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Politics’ uncertain gains
Added: 31 Jul 2017
Uncertainty is perhaps the only thing we can be certain of in the political arena these days, after…
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Editor’s comment: Election could produce a Brexit reality check
Added: 3 May 2017
It has been impossible this year to contemplate any sector within the process industries while avoi…
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Editor’s comment: why engineering needs an upgrade
Rob Smith | Added: 15 Nov 2016
One of the first topics I was fortunate enough to write about for Process Engineering magazine was …
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Editor’s comment: counting the cost of faulty foods
Louisa Hearn | Added: 3 Oct 2016
Product recalls are one portion of the food processing sector we’d all like to send packing. But po…
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Editor’s comment: the nuclear energy agenda
Rob Smith | Added: 5 Sep 2016
Despite Hinkley Point C taking centre stage, it isn’t the only major new nuclear project the UK has…
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Editor’s comment: hope amidst the turmoil for oil & gas?
Rob Smith | Added: 11 Jul 2016
The UK’s oil and gas industry is in a state of turmoil. The price of oil plummeted from a high of r…