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Viewpoint: Working safely with heat transfer fluids in plastics manufacture
Added: 13 Mar 2024
Plastics and polymers are vital materials in manufacturing. Global Heat Transfer’s Clive Jones expl…

Case study: New cleanrooms prompt search for better monitoring system
Added: 11 Jan 2024
During preparations for the construction of two new cleanroom facilities, NorthX Biologics, a leadi…

White Paper: AODD pump choice drives sustainable manufacturing
Added: 7 Oct 2023
Choosing the right AODD Pump helps cut energy consumption, optimise air usage and promote sustainab…

White paper: How synthetic biology can help decarbonise pharmaceuticals
Added: 3 Jul 2023
Tunley Engineering’s Dr Robert Moorcroft, Nathan Wood and Dr Torill Bigg explain in their white pap…

Your guide through the safety compliance jungle
Added: 14 Jun 2023
The Association of Electrical and Mechanical Trades’ Peter Rawlinson provides us with some guidance…

New hazards: COMAH 2015
Added: 3 Jun 2015
The introduction of new COMAH regulations will see many smaller firms affected by the rules for the…

Muted march of the makers
Added: 1 Apr 2015
This government came into power promising that it would rebalance the economy towards manufacturing…

Shale college launch: premature or necessary?
Added: 7 Jan 2015
With so little known about the skills it will target and the courses it will offer, the launch of t…

Pure play
Added: 12 Nov 2014
As global water regulations tighten, filtration technologies are evolving to help process industrie…
Learning the lessons from chemical disasters
Added: 22 Apr 2014
One year after the fatal explosion at a fertiliser plant in Texas, what lessons have been learned f…

Fracking fallout
Added: 4 Mar 2014
The future for Europe’s refineries and petrochemicals plants looks bleak thanks to the US shale gas…

Efficiency evangelists needed to fight cuts
Added: 18 Feb 2014
A combination of government funding cuts to support for energy efficiency measures and waning inter…

UK and European chemicals firms suffer over energy costs
Added: 21 Jan 2014
From building shale gas import terminals to shutting down production plants, the cost of energy is …
Complacent companies at highest risk of cyber attack
Added: 19 Nov 2013
Companies that employ outdated technologies and inefficient risk management tactics are at a higher…

Cost concerns limit energy efficiency investment
Added: 12 Nov 2013
Financial concerns trump environmental ones when it comes to considering investment in energy effic…

Fracking safe
Added: 26 Sep 2013
Many consider fracking to be a dangerous process, fearing it releases gasses that pollute the water…

Operating procedure key to process safety
Added: 16 Jul 2012
Article based on Honeywell white paper. Contributors: Subhankar Dey - Senior Marketing Specialist, …

Shell's 'uneasy' approach to process safety
Added: 12 Jun 2012
With 15 years’ experience in managing the operation of top-tier COMAH sites, Dave Topliffe, manufac…

Chemicals industry optimistic despite debt crisis
Added: 28 May 2012
The global chemicals industry expects to see an improvement in business according to a study by Cer…

Green chemistry for polymers
Added: 17 May 2012
Cologne, Germany – In the long-term industry will have to find substitutes for fossil fuels as supp…
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