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KBR to provide ethylene furnace for INEOS Olefins

Added: 13 Apr 2012

Houston, Texas – INEOS has engaged KBR to design and construct an ethylene furnace for one of its i…

Fraunhofer: Simulation software for the grids

Simulation software to tackle 'smart-grid' challenges

Added: 12 Apr 2012

Cologne, Germany – The increasing emergence of ‘smart grids’ to permit even more extensive use of p…

Fieldbus Foundation: IEC technical report is "good news" for automation end users

Added: 11 Apr 2012

Austin, Texas — Fieldbus Foundation has welcomed a new International Electrotechnical Commission (I…

Everbuild adds materials handling equipment

Everbuild invests to handle it all

Added: 10 Apr 2012

Leeds, UK – ?Everbuild Building Products Ltd of Leeds requires its solids handling equipment to dea…

Chemicals processing

BASF signs up Fluor as global engineering partner

Added: 6 Apr 2012

Houston, Texas – BASF has selected Fluor Corp. as its engineering partner for chemicals capital pro…

Alstom, BOC Drax back relaunched carbon capture competition

Added: 5 Apr 2012

London – Alstom, Drax and BOC have welcomed the launch of the revised carbon capture and storage (C…

HSE boss confronts sector over safety progress

Added: 3 Apr 2012

Only 65 out of 1000 high-risk sites signed up to safety management initiative

UK rejigs £1bn carbon capture competition

Added: 3 Apr 2012

Changes signal move away from large-scale project proposals in the coal-fired power industry

Buyers beware of supplier cutback

Do tough times demand closer supplier audits?

Added: 2 Apr 2012

Kristofer Whitfield warns about the risk presented by suppliers facing economic pressures:

London – …

Mixed reaction to government's CRC simplification plans

Added: 2 Apr 2012

London - The UK government has finally issued proposals to simplify the Carbon Reduction Commitment…

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BASF to set up Euro150m chemicals site in India

Added: 2 Apr 2012

Mumbai, India - BASF is investing Euro150 million to set up a new chemical production site, in Guja…

Glanbia cheese plant

Glanbia improves safety of cleaning procedures at NI cheese plant

Added: 2 Apr 2012

Magheralin, UK – Glanbia Cheese has changed the isolation and lockout tagout procedures at its mozz…

Dounreay decommissioning

Babcock Dounreay Partnership takes over at Dounreay

Added: 2 Apr 2012

London - The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) has formally awarded Babcock Dounreay Partners…

Witty linked investment to UK government commitment

GSK to invest £500m in UK manufacturing

Added: 27 Mar 2012

London - GSK is to invest more than £500 million in the UK across its manufacturing sites to increa…

E.ON, RWE quit UK nuclear venture

Added: 27 Mar 2012

Horizon Nuclear Power JV had planned to deliver around 6,000MW of new nuclear power station capacit…

Sappi taps ABB maintenance service

ABB nets service contract at Sappi paper mill

Added: 27 Mar 2012

London – Sapppi has awarded ABB a five-year ‘maintenance improvement agreement’ to manage and impro…

Linde air separation plant

Linde to supply Aramco/Dow petchem complex

Added: 27 Mar 2012

London – Linde is to supply Sadara Chemical Co.with CO, H2 and ammonia at a chemical complex now be…

Lab

Crystallisation prediction could cut costs

Added: 16 Mar 2012


Leeds, UK – A new software development could help companies adopt a more ‘bottom up’ approach to th…

EU proposals ‘threaten’ North?Sea safety

Added: 8 Mar 2012

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London – ?European Commission proposals for offshore safety regulation are likely to damage, rather…

Spider

Spider silk shown to conduct heat as effectively as metals

Added: 6 Mar 2012

Engineers at Iowa State University have discovered that spider silk conducts heat as well as metals…