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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 invests to handle it all
Added: 10 Apr 2012
Leeds, UK – ?Everbuild Building Products Ltd of Leeds requires its solids handling equipment to dea…
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
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…
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 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…
Babcock Dounreay Partnership takes over at Dounreay
Added: 2 Apr 2012
London - The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) has formally awarded Babcock Dounreay Partners…
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…
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 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…
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
London – ?European Commission proposals for offshore safety regulation are likely to damage, rather…
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…
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…
