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Apprentices

Finding better chemistry with young engineers

Added: 15 Oct 2013

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

Shale drilling illustration

Fracking safe

Added: 26 Sep 2013

Many consider fracking to be a dangerous process, fearing it releases gasses that pollute the water…

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 …

Reverse osmosis

Reversing expectations

Added: 22 Jul 2013

Reverse osmosis is becoming an increasingly attractive option for steam system users, argues Mike G…

Shale fracking

Ofgem issues a heated warning

Added: 9 Jul 2013

With concerns over the UK’s energy supplies mounting,  process industries will need to consider the…

Centralised control room

Centralised control room operations

Added: 8 Jul 2013

In recent years there has been a growing move to centralise control room operations within the proc…

Waste processing plant

Waste processing reaches new levels

Added: 10 Jun 2013

Advances in the fields of energy-from-waste and plastics recycling signal the way ahead.

Plant facility in Yorkshire

Expert eye on pump preference

Added: 31 May 2013

Mike Heap, director of Verder UK and Paul Smith, Verder sales representative, take a look the diffe…

PepsiCo

PepsiCo not waiting for things to happen

Added: 14 May 2013

North West manufacturing plant builds up the skills of maintenance and production workers.

Bearing

Maintenance regimes can be a balancing act

Added: 8 May 2013

Patrick Raleigh asks industry expert about the impact of technology, business and skills trends on …

Biomass

Biomass: material matters

Added: 26 Mar 2013

With generous subsidies available through the Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI), organisations can tur…

Dalkia wood

Road to renewable energy

Added: 18 Jan 2013

The UK is making “significant progress” with plans to increase renewable energy supply, according t…

BIU energy2

Energy: Headline prices only part of the story

Added: 19 Nov 2012

Chris Best, joint managing director at energyTEAM, reveals management ‘tricks’ that could save you …

Energy savings: Future trends in pumps

Added: 19 Nov 2012

Pumps are generally considered to consume around 25 % of the electricity which is produced worldwid…

ACWA Thames Water WTW

EU pilots Environmental Technology Verification programme

Added: 19 Nov 2012

Article by CSA-Sira on the launch of the Environmental Technology Verification in the EU:

Europe and…

Cyber

Virtual patching to reduce risk

Added: 18 Oct 2012

London – In today’s industrial organisations, patching process control system software to remove se…

Laurie-Ann Benner

One of the team

Added: 8 Sep 2012

PEME reliability engineer on the realities and opportunities for women in engineering. Ellie Zolfag…

Bara robotics

Robotics boom bypasses non-automotive sectors

Added: 4 Sep 2012

London – ?UK sales of robots for the first two quarters of 2012 have now exceeded all previous full…

Warehouse HSP 2

Achieving effective spares management

Added: 14 Aug 2012

Faced with tight budgets and the need for optimum plant and equipment availability, organisations s…

Hepbrun MacTavish ins

Insurance threat to process sector

Added: 19 Jul 2012

London – Misplaced assumptions about the protection offered by insurance policies pose an increasi…