Process & Control Magazine

Barry O’Neill, EHS Manager at Gaelic Laboratories, explains the role of pharma manufacturers in minimising the spread of antimicrobial resistance, and offers insights into achieving compliance with the AMR Industry Alliance Manufacturing Standard. The emergence of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) across the world is recognised as a significant global health challenge. AMR develops when colonies of microbes like bacteria change in ways that make antibiotics less effective.

Technosys – part of the Autopack Group – has helped a leading pork scratchings company to restart production following a devastating fire at its Midlands manufacturing facility. The business invested in three A200 vertical form, fill and seal (VFFS) machines, with Technosys providing the packaging engineering expertise and project support needed to get the first line up and running within weeks.

Integrated control and safety systems will support remote operations, improving safety, reliability and production on a normally unattended offshore platform BP extends collaboration with Emerson to maximise gas recovery and processing efficiency. Integrated control and safety systems provide process control, safety shutdown, fire and gas detection, and power management.

Advanced Rework Technology Ltd. (A.R.T.) has been shortlisted in three categories at the 2026 Instrumentation and Electronics Industry Awards, recognising the company’s contribution to professional training, customer support and the wider electronics industry. A.R.T. is a finalist for the Academic Support & Training Award and Best Customer Service Award, while Managing Director Debbie McDade has been nominated for the Electronics Industry Personality Award.

Field test demonstrated ICS Cool Energy’s solar-powered cold store container can maintain precise temperature for frozen applications for over a week, even under adverse conditions.

Growing demand for lithium-ion batteries has inspired researchers to develop electrode slurry materials and optimise existing formulations. Electrode slurry consists of electrode particles, small carbon particles to help conduction, and polymers and solvents to hold the structure together. Getting a consistent, even mix and dispersion is highly important for battery efficiency.

A popular British brewery has partnered with Kemtile to modernise its production facility with a hygienic, heavy-duty flooring system engineered to withstand the demanding conditions found within modern brewing operations while providing an attractive finish for visitors. With over 40 years’ experience delivering industrial flooring solutions to the food and beverage sector, Kemtile was selected to design and install a complete flooring package within a six-week programme.

Across many industrial operations, fouled heat transfer surfaces, dust-laden fans, blocked ducts and contaminated process equipment quietly erode energy efficiency, increase operating costs and reduce asset reliability. High-pressure cleaning is therefore no longer just a maintenance activity, but an important contributor to operational performance and decarbonization.

Great British Energy makes its first major solar investment, backing British solar-thermal innovator Naked Energy to scale UK manufacturing and accelerate heat decarbonisation The £8.875 million investment, led by Great British Energy and made alongside Barclays Climate Ventures, will fund a new UK automated manufacturing facility for Naked Energy’s Virtu solar-thermal and PVT technology, creating up to 40 direct skilled jobs and around 100 indirect roles The investment backs a...

Maintaining hygienic flow conditions in purified water (PW) and water for injection (WFI) sub-loops, a critical challenge is minimising the biofilm risk. Traditional approaches like monitored T-valve systems fail to guarantee consistent conditions, while the geometry of Coriolis flow meters aren’t typically optimised for hygiene.