11th January 2024
Pharmaceutical plants and those creating active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) face many challenges in delivering end products to the highest standards.
12th December 2023
Process industries in Scotland, such as pharmaceuticals, distilleries, breweries and dairies, have been professionally supported by valve and instrumentation experts, BM Engineering Supplies, for over two decades.
30th November 2023
Bürkert has launched a water and gas intake control unit that provides filtration and pressure control of the intake media. The new Type 5110 Media Supply Unit is ideally suited for dental care machines, and the compact unit also provides advantages for wider applications that require water and air intake with filtration as well as onward pressure and flow control. Bürkert’s new control unit achieves globally recognised compliance, and the modular system enables fast and simple design integration.
28th November 2023
Gary Hopkinson, founder of Valves Online, has announced his retirement, planned for the end of this year. In March, the UK’s largest online valves supplier underwent a business acquisition by R&G Fluid Power Group. Gary has been assisting the transition while Valves Online is set to retain its successful business model.
19th October 2023
Grown from animal cells, cultivated meat has the potential to provide a more environmentally friendly alternative, that is also free from animal harm. Currently, production is laboratory-scale, and expanding to industrial levels could enable this new food to reach our supermarkets.
5th October 2023
To optimise measurement and control accuracy for low liquid volumes, Coriolis sensors are often the prime technology choice. Providing a true mass flow reading with accuracy down to ±0.2%, these devices are also highly repeatable.
29th September 2023
When specifying control valves, ensuring the right input data is provided offers the best chance the resulting performance of the application will be optimised. To show the effects, a recent example based on deionised water production highlights how accurate specification is essential whenever control valves are used.
13th September 2023
Many manufacturing processes in the food and beverage industry and pharmaceutical sector require careful control of pressurised vessels to ensure optimum product quality. Fermentation in bioreactors, tank blanketing in drinks production, or pressure transfer of fragile products are just a few examples where accurate gas pressure control is essential for process reliability.
29th August 2023
Water treatment plants and construction sites use dissolved air flotation to remove suspended solids, oil fat and grease from wastewater in an efficient and environmentally friendly way.
15th August 2023
Spray drying technology offers the pharmaceutical industry a continuous process to convert a liquid active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) into a powder, as an alternative to freeze drying.