Analysis

We’ve revisited the UK food and drink process manufacturing sectors as we head into the second half of 2025. With ongoing volatility in the market and a shifting investment landscape, we’ve updated our outlook to reflect the latest conditions, trends, and project opportunities as captured on our MyProtel capex project tracking platform. While there are Continue reading

All capital expenditure investment trends covered in the post below are drawn from our live project database and consolidated in our CapexData project analytics portal – create your own reports here. Our latest analysis of capital expenditure investment trends, specifically in capex implementation across six key regions in the pharmaceutical, biotech, food, drink and life Continue reading

Opportunities and Challenges for Equipment Suppliers After a relatively quiet summer, the process manufacturing sectors in Ireland are showing renewed momentum, with an uptick in project approvals. This shift presents exciting opportunities, particularly for suppliers of capital equipment and machinery, as companies push forward with investments. Pharmaceutical Capex Projects Lead the Way The pharmaceutical sector Continue reading

The European pharmaceutical capex sector outlook for France, Belgium and the Netherlands is a mixed picture. We are seeing France pull ahead of Belgium and the Netherlands for upcoming pharmaceutical sector capital expenditure due to a number of push and pull factors. European Pharmaceutical Capex Trends – Belgium and the Netherlands Belgium is overall the Continue reading

The food & drink sector forms a major part of the economies of France, Belgium and the Netherlands and provides a diverse and buoyant range of capex projects. Suppliers of capital equipment and machinery are rightly interested in the future prospects of the food & drink sector in these countries, so in this article will Continue reading

As we make our German capex project data available to all for the first time, we look at the main trends and challenges facing the pharmaceutical, life sciences, food and drink sectors in Germany. Get ahead of the emerging trends and opportunities in this exciting market and learn about the German capex project outlook for Continue reading

We last published an article covering the outlook of the UK food and drink sectors in the UK in 2023. As things have developed, we have revisited the sectors to examine the current outlook halfway through 2024. So far in 2024 there is a great deal of capex in the pipeline. We are, however, seeing Continue reading

In our previous article we wrote about confidence returning to the UK energy sector. Over the last decade the outlook for capex in the energy and gas sectors in the UK has been primarily influenced by the drive toward renewable energy and decarbonisation. At Protel we cover process-intensive energy projects, and this article aims to Continue reading