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Middle East crisis: a note on price pressures
Added: 22 Mar 2026
As continuing conflict in the Middle East sends prices upward, the LEEA’s Ross Moloney argues that …
Produced water is unpredictable, effective treatment shouldn’t be
Added: 22 Mar 2026
Produced water exposes the fragility of treatment systems built around steady state assumptions, ca…
Tackling water I&I with 'hifi' data
Added: 10 Mar 2026
Following publication of the Environment Agency’s stringent new requirements for reporting on sewer…
Assessing options for electrifying industrial heating
Added: 10 Mar 2026
Industrial heat demand amounts to more than 20 per cent of global energy consumption, therfore deca…
The five 2026 trends impacting CNC machining
Added: 23 Feb 2026
Data, automation, and hybrid technologies are reshaping precision manufacturing, says Dominique Gal…
How heat exchangers ensure value from meat products
Added: 27 Jan 2026
Global meat consumption continues to rise, increasing the number and volume of co-products from mea…
Rethinking chemical storage
Added: 13 Jan 2026
Why are storage vessels still being specified as if long-term material behaviour were someone else’…
Take the circular approach to thermal fluid management
Added: 15 Dec 2025
In an era of tightening regulations, rising energy prices and sustainability targets, manufacturers…
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…
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…
