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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

EU Flag

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…

Hydrogel

Self-healing hydrogels could help seal leakages

Added: 5 Mar 2012

San Diego, US- Bioengineers at the University of California, San Diego have developed a self-healin…

Project improves efficiency of energy harvesters

Added: 5 Mar 2012

Teddington, UK- Scientists working as part of the Metrology for Energy Harvesting Project have deve…

Sensor X-ray

Norwegian researchers develop powerful radiation sensor

Added: 2 Mar 2012

Oslo, Norway- Scientists at the Norwegian Micro and Nano Laboratory have created one of the most ad…

EPSRC issues call for novel production processes

Added: 1 Mar 2012

Swindon, UK- The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) has this week highlight…

Raman

Laser beams help detect chemicals over long distances

Added: 28 Feb 2012

Researchers at the Vienna University of Technology have developed a method of detecting chemicals w…

Scottish Water wastewater project cuts flooding risk

Added: 27 Feb 2012

Campbeltown, UK – Scottish Water has completed a £23-million environmental improvement project to p…

MIT research could help improve plant efficiency

Added: 23 Feb 2012

Massachusetts, US- Research by a team at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has provid…

Milk

GEA scoops Euro33m order in Australia

Added: 23 Feb 2012

Milton Keynes, UK – GEA Process Engineering has received an order for the delivery of a production …

South America contracts for Metso

Added: 22 Feb 2012

Helsinki – Metso is to deliver automation technology to two major infrastructure projects currently…

The Shell petrochemicals facility in Singapore

Shell extends Wood Group PSN contract

Added: 22 Feb 2012

The Shell petrochemicals facility in Singapore

London - Wood Group PSN has secured a contract extension from Shell in the UK to deliver midstream …

Ferroelectric structures

Scientists develop bespoke piezoelectric material

Added: 21 Feb 2012

Atlanta, US- Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a manufacturing proc…