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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…

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…

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…

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…