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Bayer CO2-to-plastics project among best ideas for the future

Added: 6 Feb 2012

Leverkusen, Germany – A Bayer project for using the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide as a component fo…

Measurement technology can raise capacity of wastewater plants

Added: 6 Feb 2012

Helsinki – Metso has developed an on-line measurement technology, which it claims, can enable munic…

Cargo of oil to keep Petroplus refinery running

Added: 3 Feb 2012

London – Administrators for Petroplus Refining & Marketing Ltd (PRML) have acquired a cargo of oil …

Yorkshire Water starts work on £30m 'poo-power' scheme

Added: 3 Feb 2012

Bradford, UK – Yorkshire Water has started work on a £30-million project to install the UK’s first …

Oil-condition sensors can save miners money

Added: 2 Feb 2012

London – Unexpected equipment failure and unplanned down-time significantly impacts on operational …

Sartorius upbeat over 2011 results, restructure

Added: 2 Feb 2012

Goettingen, Germany – Laboratory and process equipment group Sartorius has reported growth in sales…

Foster Wheeler for UK carbon capture project

Added: 31 Jan 2012

Zug, Switzerland – Foster Wheeler has been awarded a project management consultancy (PMC) contract …

System integrators in demand in India

Added: 25 Jan 2012

London – Manufacturing companies in India are increasingly turning to system integrators to impleme…

BOC joins Alstom, Drax on flagship CCS project

Added: 24 Jan 2012

London – Industrial gases provider BOC is joining Alstom and Drax as a co-developer on the 426 MW o…

Petroplus files for backruptcy

Added: 24 Jan 2012

Zug, Switzerland – Europe’s largest independent oil refiner Petroplus Holdings AG is to file for in…

EU to triple banned-chemicals list

Added: 24 Jan 2012

London – Manufacturers and distributors across a broad range of industries which place products on …

Microwave flow chemistry to "radically improve" drug development

Added: 18 Jan 2012

Cambridge, UK – Uniqsis and WaveCraft have agreed to jointly develop a new range of microwave-based…

Statoil targets four oil & gas production technologies

Added: 18 Jan 2012

Oslo – Statoil has identified four technologies as critical to its strategy to increase production …

Engineers turn destructive plant into valuable carbon

Added: 18 Jan 2012

Glasgow, UK – Researchers in Scotland and Cuba are ridding the Caribbean nation of a major ecologic…

Bayer centre targets isocyanate process advances

Added: 17 Jan 2012

Leverkusen, Germany – Bayer MaterialScience has commissioned a new Euro5-million technical center f…

Biochemical plants in chimneys

Added: 11 Jan 2012

?RWE Power and biotechnology company BRAIN are to expand their joint CO2 -to-chemicals research in …

Alcoa to cut global smelting capacity by 12%

Added: 9 Jan 2012

New York – Alcoa is to close or curtail around 531 kilotonnes per annum (ktpa), or 12% of its globa…

Cheese company adds pump, macerator at AD plant

Added: 4 Jan 2012

Börger’s installation for Carrigbyrne

BP taps Foster Wheeler to debottleneck Scottish terminal

Added: 22 Dec 2011

Reading, UK – BP Exploration Operating Co. Ltd has awarded Foster Wheeler an engineering, procureme…

Metso, Siemens to equip $3bn pulp plant

Added: 9 Dec 2011

Helsinki / São Paulo - Suzano Papel e Celulose is investing $3-billion (Euro2.3 billion) to establi…