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Scientists unveil first lab-grown burger
Added: 5 Aug 2013
Dutch food scientists cooked and ate the first ever lab-grown burger on Monday afternoon.
Water firms "worst polluters"
Added: 5 Aug 2013
Water utilities have been accused of being the worst polluters of England’s waterways following the…
UK biofuel projects to receive £25m
Added: 5 Aug 2013
Transport minister Norman Baker has announced a biofuels funding scheme to help advance waste-to-fu…
Threat to Schneider's Invensys takeover
Added: 2 Aug 2013
Schneider’s proposed £3.4 billion takeover of Invensys is still under threat of being beaten by a b…
Yokogawa wins SSE gas storage upgrade
Added: 1 Aug 2013
Yokogawa has won a contract to supply an integrated control and safety system for SSE’s Hornsea gas…
Process automation market to hit $124bn
Added: 1 Aug 2013
Revenues in the global process automation market are expected to grow at a rate of over 6% per year…
Schneider acquires Invensys for £3.4bn
Added: 31 Jul 2013
UK-based Invensys today accepted an offer from France’s Schneider Electric to acquire the company f…
Biomass firms face subsidy fight
Added: 31 Jul 2013
Developers of new biomass projects across England and Wales are bracing themselves for a race to se…
Centrica gas storage projects face axe
Added: 31 Jul 2013
Centrica today revealed that its two planned gas storage projects worth a combined £1.5 billion are…
Siemens names Kaeser as new CEO
Added: 31 Jul 2013
Siemens today replaced CEO Peter Loescher with the company’s chief financial officer Joe Kaeser.
Drax biomass running at half capacity
Added: 30 Jul 2013
A lack of storage facilities has forced the first of Drax’s converted biomass units to run with an …
BP Gulf oil spill fund dries up
Added: 30 Jul 2013
BP today announced it has just $300 million remaining in its $20 billion Gulf of Mexico compensatio…
Thames supertunnel contracts launched
Added: 29 Jul 2013
Thames Water today published a contract notice for up to £2.3 billion of tunnelling works to build …
Police arrest protesters at Cuadrilla site
Added: 26 Jul 2013
Oil test well protest highlights challenges facing UK shale developers and their suppliers.
Lords probe waste and the bioeconomy
Added: 26 Jul 2013
The House of Lords’ Science and Technology Committee yesterday launched an inquiry into waste and t…
Oil majors partner IChemE on safety
Added: 25 Jul 2013
Leading oil firms including Shell and ExxonMobil have signed up to become the first industry partne…
DuPont may sell performance chemicals arm
Added: 25 Jul 2013
US giant DuPont yesterday announced it was consider the sale or spinning-off of all or part of its …
Reaction cuts chemical production costs
Added: 25 Jul 2013
Experts at the University of Texas at Austin (UTA) believe they have discovered an organic reaction…
100MW biomass project approved
Added: 24 Jul 2013
The £250m development of a biomass power plant in the North East of England was approved by governm…
First rise for manufacturing orders in a year
Added: 24 Jul 2013
New orders in the UK’s manufacturing sector rose in the three months to July for the first time in …
