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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…
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 …
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 …
Electrification: a powerful path to decarbonising cement production
Added: 27 Jan 2025
Coolbrook CEO Joonas Rauramo explains how even the most carbon-intensive of process sectors can cut…
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…
AI’s got your back
Added: 21 Nov 2024
Artificial intelligence isn’t after your job, only the mundane and time- consuming element you’d be…
The top ten questions to help understand food safety
Added: 17 Nov 2024
In a world where food safety is non-negotiable and consumer expectations are at an all-time high, f…
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…
Improving scalability and efficiency of production in process chromatography
Added: 12 Oct 2024
Pharma manufacturer Sanovaskale Technologies’ Dr Smita Kale discusses how her company improved scal…
