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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…

Turkish refinery opts for Emerson wireless technology
Added: 9 Dec 2011
Izmir, Turkey – Turkey’s state-owned Tüpra? refinery in Izmir, has placed an order with Emerson Pro…

Russia fertiliser producer adds Honeywell simulation system
Added: 8 Dec 2011
London – Russia’s largest mineral fertilizer producer EuroChem is to equip five of its ammonia prod…

Oakwell orders 43 Litre Meter flowmeters for Dubai project
Added: 8 Dec 2011
London – Litre Meter has shipped 43 VFF positive displacement flowmeters to Singapore-based Oakwell…

Analyser helps cement maker Holcim to raise output and quality
Added: 6 Dec 2011
Malvern, UK: Cement producer Holcim is using an on-line particle size analyser, from Malvern Instr…

Cisco doubles wireless standards
Added: 29 Nov 2011
Under a deal with Cisco Systems, Honeywell is offering a new wireless access point from Cisco withi…

Shell nears phosgene-free feedstock link-up with polycarbonate major
Added: 24 Nov 2011
Amsterdam - Shell is “very, very close” to commercialising a technology for the production of diphe…