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Viridor Parkway

AD outshines solar and could grow 800%

Added: 27 Jun 2012

London – The UK’s anaerobic digestion (AD) industry is punching well above its weight in terms of e…

BP selects Emerson as preferred N Sea automation supplier

Added: 27 Jun 2012

London – BP Exploration has selected Emerson Process Management as its preferred automation contrac…

Cyber

MI5 chief: UK industry under "astonishing" rate of cyber attacks

Added: 26 Jun 2012

London - Industry is now coming under an “astonishing” rate of cyber attacks, according to Jonathan…

Exxon Fawley 3 go

ExxonMobil to 'reconfigure' UK refinery

Added: 25 Jun 2012

Fawley, UK – ExxonMobil is to implement a reconfiguration of the facilities at its Fawley refinery …

Solar thermal

Fraunhofer network expands

Added: 25 Jun 2012

London - Saudi Basic Industries Corp. (SABIC) and German applied research organisation Fraunhofer-G…

Rosneft, ExxonMobil target new reserves in Russia

Added: 25 Jun 2012

Tuapse, Russia— Rosneft and ExxonMobil are to jointly develop tight oil reserves in Western Siberia…

SABIC CAMERA Teesside

Jacobs nets contract for Saudi polyetheylene trains

Added: 24 Jun 2012

London – Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. has been awarded an engineering, procurement and constructio…

Honeywell Adamczyk HPS

Honeywell leadership on the move

Added: 24 Jun 2012

London – Honeywell has appointed Darius Adamczyk as president of Honeywell Process Solutions. He mo…

Linde air separation plant

Linde targets air oxidation processes

Added: 23 Jun 2012

Frankfurt, Germany – Air oxidation is used in many processes in the petrochemical and basic chemica…

Biofuel

Ensus prepares for biofuels restart

Added: 20 Jun 2012

Teesside, UK - Ensus is stepping up work at its Teesside refinery with a view to restarting the fac…

BOC boards 2Co Energy's carbon capture project

Added: 18 Jun 2012

London – Gases and engineering company BOC is to take a 15% stake in 2Co Energy Ltd’s development o…

Petroplus Coryton unit

Ministers urged to throw Coryton refinery a lifeline

Added: 18 Jun 2012

London – Trade union Unite has called on UK energy and climate change secretary Ed Davey and his mi…

Yokogawa laser analyser test

SICK, Yokogawa in global process instrumentation deal

Added: 18 Jun 2012

Frankfurt, Germany – Yokogawa Electric Corp. is to distribute and service process analytical instru…

Imtech to acquire Capula

Added: 18 Jun 2012

Gouda, The Netherlands - Royal Imtech NV is to acquire Capula in a move intended to extend its posi…

Bara Robots auto

BARA reports big demand for UK automation grant

Added: 15 Jun 2012

London – The British Automation and Robot Association (BARA) is urging UK manufacturers to apply fo…

FMF

Producing methanol using CO2 and hydrogen

Added: 14 Jun 2012

A research team at the Freiburg Materials Research Center (FMF) has developed a new system for prod…

Solar thermal

Solar thermal system to heat oil at food factory

Added: 14 Jun 2012

Novel solar thermal technology is being used to heat oil for making potato crisps

Metso WRG Lincs

Metso to automate UK waste-to-energy plants

Added: 13 Jun 2012

Helsinki – CNIM Group has selected Metso’s DNA automation systems for the North Hykeham greenfield …

Legionelle scare

HSE serves 'legionella' notices on two process companies

Added: 13 Jun 2012

Edinburgh, UK – The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has served two process companies, North Briti…

CO2 Material

Honeycomb-like material has potential role in carbon capture

Added: 13 Jun 2012

A novel porous material that has unique carbon dioxide retention properties has been developed thro…