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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…
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…
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…
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…
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 …
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 …
Lead, don’t follow in the robotics revolution
Added: 3 Dec 2024
From the laboratory to the factory floor, it is possible for the UK to lead in the use of autonomou…
Shining light on the vital global role performed by pumps
Added: 13 Nov 2024
In the drive to ensure energy efficiency and sustainability in industry and beyond, says Luboš Mich…
Boldly inspiring: National Engineering Day 2024
Added: 13 Nov 2024
The Pirbright Institute is renowned for its role as the UK’s leading centre for the study of viral …
How to Boost Natural Gas Vapour Recovery
Added: 22 Oct 2024
Oil-free reciprocating gas compressors help facilitate compliance with product recovery and emissio…
Spatial awareness
Added: 13 Aug 2024
Productivity increases depend upon innovation, runs the mantra. A new report suggests that requires…
Revising for the regulators
Added: 22 May 2024
Air quality rules are getting tougher and so is budgeting for equipment upgrades, says Finning’s Ke…
Managing process safety in the round
Added: 1 May 2024
High hazard process safety needs a holistic approach that acknowledges competencies degrade over ti…
CHEMUK 2024: A focus on the process
Added: 17 Apr 2024
Process engineering has always been a strong element of the annual show but this year, for the firs…
Retrofitting ageing pump systems offers energy savings and compliance
Added: 12 Mar 2024
Retrofits to outdated heating, cooling and water systems enable cost savings on the road to sustain…
Geothermal: our ultimate energy source
Added: 16 Nov 2023
While we cast around for alternatives to fossil fuels that satisfy ethical principles and industria…
A perception gap
Added: 13 Sep 2023
Our chemicals industry has an image problem when it comes to recruitment. Why, when it’s key to ach…
Case study: Aeration investment in wastewater treatment reaps cereal returns
Added: 24 Aug 2023
Investment in new wastewater treatment equipment has enabled a leading producer of cereals and cere…
Case study: Waste contractor brings in the Beast to transform Cornwall’s provision
Added: 27 Jul 2023
Proving that investment in innovation pays off, a Cornish liquid waste disposal company has increas…
Industry can solve a major health problem by not taking a stand
Added: 12 Jan 2023
Is it time to revisit the laws on time being spent on our feet during active work hours, wonders Wi…
