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Euro11bn REACH burdens EU chemical makers
Added: 5 Oct 2012
London – European chemical manufacturers group Cefic has posted an uncertain outlook for the sector…

Low-carbon shake-up for UK energy mix
Added: 3 Oct 2012
London - Incentives to promote low-carbon power generation are having a significant impact on the U…

Public backing for chemicals industry
Added: 3 Oct 2012
London – A recent survey of public opinion shows that the chemical industry in the UK enjoys a surp…

Alstom turbines for new gas-fired power station
Added: 2 Oct 2012
London – Alstom has been awarded a contract to supply the electromechanical equipment for the new C…

French company claims G2 biofuels breakthrough
Added: 2 Oct 2012
Paris - French biotech company DEINOVE has isolated and optimised a strain of Deinococcus bacteria,…

HSE begins Fees for Intervention
Added: 1 Oct 2012
London – The Health and Safety Executive’s (HSE) new cost recovery scheme, Fee for Intervention (FF…

Scientists and engineers more likely to switch jobs
Added: 26 Sep 2012
London – Employees in the science and engineering industry are more likely to change jobs more freq…

Eni to convert Venice refinery into bio-refinery
Added: 26 Sep 2012
Venice, Italy – Eni is investing Euro100 million to convert its Venice refinery to produce only bio…

CEMEX signs new EfW deal with SITA
Added: 26 Sep 2012
SITA UK signs
London - Recycling and resource management company, SITA UK, has signed a three-year c…

Saint-Gobain signs first renewable energy deals
Added: 24 Sep 2012
London – Saint-Gobain UK & Ireland has recenty signed its first renewable energy power purchase agr…

£7m to make UK process sector more sustainable
Added: 24 Sep 2012
London – The Technology Strategy Board has announced that 70 UK companies, universities and researc…

BP taps Emerson for new FPSO project
Added: 21 Sep 2012
London – Emerson Process Management has been awarded a $21 million contract to provide integrated c…

Renewables group slams "unhelpful" biomass/CHP plan
Added: 20 Sep 2012
London – The Government’s latest consultation for biomass power and CHP introduces new levels of co…

Bayer CropScience to invest Euro7bn
Added: 20 Sep 2012
Monheim, Germany - Bayer CropScience (BCS) has unveiled plans to invest Euro7 billion between 2011 …

Oil & gas industry event to mark Piper Alpha
Added: 20 Sep 2012
Aberdeen, UK – Oil & Gas UK is to hold a major offshore safety conference next summer, which will m…

RWE opens one, axes two plants
Added: 19 Sep 2012
London - RWE npower is to close its 2,000MW coal-fired Didcot A Power Station in Oxfordshire and th…

Engineers urge MPs to back shale gas
Added: 18 Sep 2012
London – The Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) has urged the Government to back the deve…

Process sectors move to embedded-PLC terminals
Added: 18 Sep 2012
Wellingborough, UK – Cost and factory space requirements, particularly in the food & beverage and p…

Emerson to automatate Vopak terminals worldwide
Added: 13 Sep 2012
London – Vopak has awarded Emerson Process Management, a three-year global framework agreement, as …

Industrial Strategy to target 'winners'
Added: 13 Sep 2012
London – Business secretary Vince Cable has set out his Industrial Strategy for the UK, looking at…