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Crumbs problem solved at last
Added: 14 May 2012
London – A process that has reportedly defied automation for decades has been resolved by systems i…
Sales up 20% at Severn Trent Services
Added: 11 May 2012
Barcelona, Spain - Severn Trent Services has increased sales by over 20% worldwide, in the past yea…

Drax set to complete £100m turbine upgrade
Added: 10 May 2012
Drax, UK - Drax Power Station is a month away from completing the largest steam turbine modernisati…

UK oil & gas services sector doing well
Added: 10 May 2012
Aberdeen, UK - Gross revenues generated by the UK oil & gas well services sector grew by 28% to £1.…

Eni: Euro2bn and new name for chemicals business
Added: 10 May 2012
Rome – Eni has renamed its Polimeri Europa division Versalis, as part of a major new investment str…

Manchester students net IChemE sustainability prize
Added: 10 May 2012
Manchester, UK – A project to turn corn waste into succinic acid has earned an international sustai…

Severn Trent Services for Australia water treatment project
Added: 10 May 2012
Birmingham, UK – Severn Trent Services (STS) is to supply an filter underdrain system for the Munda…

Energy is the biggest concern for UK chemicals makers
Added: 9 May 2012
London - The continuing high cost of energy in the UK is a major barrier to future jobs and growth,…

Dow to tap further into shale-gas feedstock resources
Added: 9 May 2012
Midland, Michigan - Dow Chemical Co. is to construct a new world-scale ethylene production plant at…

Honeywell launches enterprise-wide software for process sector
Added: 9 May 2012
Bracknell, UK – Honeywell has launched Intuition Executive software, which comprises enterprise-wid…

Emerson in level measurement buy
Added: 9 May 2012
London – Emerson Process Management has acquired ISE Magtech of Pearland, Texas, for an undisclosed…

Metso to automate combined-cycle power plant in Turkey
Added: 8 May 2012
Helsinki – AGE ENERJ? Yat?r?mlar? A?, one of Turkey’s major energy companies has engaged Metso to a…

Norway advances carbon capture plans
Added: 8 May 2012
Oslo - Aker Solutions has opened a carbon capture plant at the CO2 Technology Centre Mongstad (TCM)…

US team claims bio-PET advance
Added: 8 May 2012
London - Chemical engineers in the US has discovered a new way to make monomer feedstock for PET bo…

SSI injects £30m into steelworks
Added: 4 May 2012
Sahaviriya Steel Industries (SSI) has commissioned a £30m pulverised coal injection (PCI) plant at …

Keeping track of GM crops
Added: 3 May 2012
New bioluminescent technology can track and monitor GM crops in the food processing chain.

Dounreay clean-up moves offshore
Added: 3 May 2012
Work to clean up radioactive contamination that leaked from Dounreay more than two decades ago is s…

Metso to supply a bio-oil unit to Fortum power plant
Added: 28 Apr 2012
Joensuu, Finland – Metso and Fortum Power and Heat have signed a contract regarding a delivery of a…

US Macondo investigators on UK fact-finding mission
Added: 26 Apr 2012
Aberdeen, UK – Investigators from the US Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) have …

Project targets energy lost during aluminium recycling
Added: 25 Apr 2012
London - HRS Heat Exchangers is to participate in ALUSALT – a consortium seeking to develop an adva…