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Counting the costs of shortcuts
Added: 3 Jun 2013
The tendency to place price before performance can lead to poor product choice. Are pump & valve ma…
Meeting challenges in the mix
Added: 31 May 2013
Current developments and project activity highlight the increasing range of demands on process equi…
Energy sectors are fuelling innovation
Added: 24 May 2013
Emerging energy sectors, such as LNG, biogas and oilsands, are driving demand for new flow measurem…

Planning the journey
Added: 14 May 2013
Patrick Raleigh reports on efforts at Southern Water to move the utility to a more planned maintena…

Recovery in the air
Added: 29 Apr 2013
London – Suppliers of industrial compressors and related systems and equipment are expecting market…

Learning the lessons
Added: 8 Apr 2013
This summer Oil & Gas UK will stage a major offshore safety conference to mark the 25th anniversary…

Dealing with disaster
Added: 8 Apr 2013
Natural hazard triggered technological accidents (Natechs) are on the rise. The globalisation of bu…

Subsea saviour
Added: 8 Apr 2013
Much of the low-hanging fruit has already been picked. In future, offshore natural gas fields will …

Keeping it clean
Added: 4 Apr 2013
The meat products scandal that has rocked the UK food manufacturing industry is likely to heighten …

Uniting the forces of air movement
Added: 27 Mar 2013
Vacuum pumps and air compressors are vital parts of a myriad of engineering processes. Historically…

Scientists advance CO2 route to acrylates
Added: 26 Mar 2013
Providence, Rhode Island – Chemical researchers at Brown and Yale Universities in the US are claimi…

Lessons from Germany
Added: 26 Mar 2013
Germany’s impressive performance in biogas development has been as much about implementation as inn…

Sensors create a stir in WWT sector
Added: 19 Mar 2013
Issues around the maintenance of dissolved oxygen (DO) sensors and the accuracy of measurements pro…

Boilers: The heat is on training
Added: 19 Mar 2013
Guidelines within BG01 (Guidance on the Safe Operation of Boilers) are continuing to drive demand f…

Time to replace?
Added: 8 Mar 2013
Experts from different industries identify common issues when it comes to staying ahead of obsolesc…

Renewable energy roadmap
Added: 4 Mar 2013
The UK is making “significant progress” with plans to increase renewable energy supply, according t…

Biomaterials challenge
Added: 28 Feb 2013
The current political drive behind recycling of waste material and the generation of power from ren…

Frack from fiction
Added: 26 Feb 2013
Cuadrilla Resources, the UK firm which caused the incident in July, was last month given permission…

BASF's automation lifecycle
Added: 26 Feb 2013
Ludgwigshafen, Germany - Chemicals major BASF SE’s headquarters site in Ludwigshafen, Germany, is a…

HPS is wireless 'agnostic'
Added: 20 Feb 2013
Istanbul – End users are now less concerned about wireless standards than in what the technology ca…