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The growth of electric boilers in UK industrial process heating
Added: 19 Nov 2025
Driven by government policy, market forces, and the urgency of decarbonisation, industry is rethink…
Back to Basics: checkweighing in food production lines
Added: 19 Nov 2025
Checkweighing plays a role in food manufacturing, meeting regulations, upholding product quality, b…
Fifty years of VSDs — and we’re just getting started
Added: 25 Oct 2025
Fifty years ago, an innovation quietly emerged that would go on to transform the way we power moder…
Beyond predictive maintenance: unlocking AI value
Added: 17 Oct 2025
Process industry consideration of AI’s potential tends to focus on predictive maintenance but often…
Acoustic emission testing: the sound approach to plant monitoring
Added: 7 Oct 2025
Breakthroughs in sensor technology and data interpretation are driving the rise of acoustic emissio…
From Paper to Predictive: overcoming cultural barriers in process industry digitalisation
Added: 24 Sep 2025
The technology’s already here, the legislative framework is encouraging process firms to endorse di…
Improving food contaminant detection: dual energy X-ray and photon counting
Added: 7 Sep 2025
Mettler-Toledo’s Mike Pipe explains how dual energy x-ray detection and advanced photon counting te…
How AI can transform legacy oil and gas operations
Added: 3 Aug 2025
The oil and gas sector is undergoing seismic change. As part of the broader transition toward susta…
Six pointers that identify linear actuator quality
Added: 23 Jul 2025
Linear motion systems are used in processes the world over. Central to these systems is a linear ac…
Unravelling those digital buzzwords for the food sector
Added: 16 Jul 2025
Artificial Intelligence has become a buzzword but is often misunderstood and misrepresented in its …
Wasteful packaging – industry’s Achilles heel
Added: 3 Jun 2025
To mark the recent World Environment Day, ABB’s Stefan Floeck called for less headline grabbing and…
Balancing efficiency with safety in hazardous environments
Added: 22 May 2025
Electrical equipment used in hazardous chemical, oil and gas and processing environments must be de…
Why do we measure surface energy?
Added: 22 May 2025
Wettability is a prerequisite for adhesion and bonding, so understanding surface energy is critical…
Closing the gate on criminality
Added: 30 Mar 2025
Richard Hilson argues that while every effort can be made to prevent attacks and burglaries on plan…
Fighting wars on factory settings
Added: 23 Mar 2025
Critical industries’ emergence as a target for hostile states reflects the increasingly digital asp…
The keys to keeping emissions in check
Added: 21 Mar 2025
Monitoring systems have been central to the substantial reduction in greenhouse gas emissions in th…
Integrating legacy data in the pharmaceutical sector
Added: 12 Mar 2025
Pharmaceutical companies transitioning to electronic records need to be mindful that, convenient or…
Industry collaboration: The key to tackling supply chain disruption
Added: 24 Feb 2025
The critical role played by companies in the UK chemical supply chain is being hampered by a range …
Thermal fluid heaters: buyer, be aware
Added: 8 Feb 2025
Babcock Wanson’s Etienne Fourie on why quality matters in a thermal fluid heater and how to discern…
Emissions gases for scalable R&D: real versus synthetic
Added: 31 Jan 2025
Approximately 50,000 litres of synthetic emissions gases, such as nitrogen oxides (NOX) and carbon …
