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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…
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…
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…
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…
Brand new age for STEM recruitment
Added: 22 Mar 2018
Words such as branding and marketing are, one suspects, anathema to the average engineer.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 …
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…
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…
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…
