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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…

Viewpoint: Working safely with heat transfer fluids in plastics manufacture

Added: 10 Jan 2024

Plastics and polymers are vital materials in manufacturing. Global Heat Transfer’s Clive Jones expl…

Case study: Pumps prove vital to decarbonisation and environmental materials

Added: 9 Jan 2024

Peristaltic pumps help decontaminate water at Cornish Metals’ new treatment plant in a former mine …

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…

Meet the next generation of tech innovators

Louisa Hearn | Added: 5 Sep 2016

A new wave of graduate entrepreneurs are being helped on their way to deliver highly disruptive tec…

George Osborne at the Manufacturing Technology Centre

Apprenticeship levy sparks funding fears

Added: 27 Nov 2015

Clarification over the funding of apprenticeships has created confusion throughout industry, though…

Energy minister Matthew Hancock opens National shale gas college in Blackpool

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…

Apprentices

Finding better chemistry with young engineers

Added: 15 Oct 2013

Skills shortage sparks drive to make process industries more attractive. Ellie Zolfagharifard repor…

Sellafield nuclear reactor plant

On the right track for safety

Added: 31 Jul 2013

Efforts to establish effective safety practices in the construction of process infrastructure seem …

Stop-start water cycle blocks technology flow

Added: 8 Mar 2012

London – ?After a slow start to the current Asset Management Plan - AMP5 (2010-15) - suppliers have…

Autumn Statement: "Government has eventually listened to industry”

Added: 6 Dec 2011

London – The UK chancellor’s Autumn Statement includes a number of measures in areas including envi…

Control systems blamed for a third of downtime

Added: 7 Jun 2011

Houston, Texas – An industry-wide shortage of software-experienced engineers and over-extended equi…

Apprenticeships paying off in chemicals industries

Added: 9 Feb 2010

London – The Chemical Industries Association (CIA) is highlighting how apprenticeships have had a c…