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Water

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…

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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…

What rising raw material prices mean for electronics

Added: 23 Feb 2026

Upstream volatility impacts design and procurement teams warns Chris Withers, who explains how engi…

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…

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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…

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…

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…

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 …