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BASF FINA roadmaps wireless at petrochemicals site

Added: 16 May 2011

Mountain View, California – BASF FINA Petrochemicals LP has established a wireless application site…

Total, ExxonMobil in Polish shale gas deal

Added: 16 May 2011

Paris – Total has entered an agreement with ExxonMobil to farm into the Chelm and Werbkowice shale …

Steel maker taps Metso for new plant

Added: 13 May 2011

Espoo, Finland – Finnish steel major Outokumpu has awarded Metso Corp an electrification and automa…

Patrick Raleigh, Editor

Legal weapon

Added: 12 May 2011

Patrick Raleigh, Editor

Patrick Raleigh, Editor

Law suits seem to be flying across the process industries sector at present,…

Vivergo dispute rumbles on

Added: 12 May 2011

Work halted as JV pulls plug on Redhall contract. Patrick Raleigh reports

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Mobile maintenance

Added: 12 May 2011

Patrick Raleigh reports on a new e-maintenance strategy at Brembo

Wireless strengthens

Added: 12 May 2011

Global demand for wireless-enabled industrial products is growing 18% (CAGR), estimates IMS Researc…

UK submits 12 energy projects for Euro4.5bn fund

Added: 11 May 2011

London – The UK government has submitted 12 UK-based projects to the European Investment Bank (EIB)…

Linde, Sapphire in algae fuel production deal

Added: 11 May 2011

Munich, Germany – Linde Group and Sapphire Energy, Inc. thave signed a multi-year agreement to co-d…

BP sues over Macondo disaster

Added: 11 May 2011

Patrick Raleigh reports on moves to shift the blame for the Deepwater Horizon disaster

TaKaDu’s monitoring technology

Water utilities must get even smarter

Added: 9 May 2011

In the conservative water industry, most drinking-water companies rely on acoustic techniques to fi…

Yokogawa nets major India power plant contract

Added: 9 May 2011

Tokyo – Yokogawa Electric Corp. has won an order from Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction Co. Lt…

Uniqsis, Cambridge Reactor Design in cooling system advance

Added: 9 May 2011

Cambridge, UK – Uniqsis Ltd and Cambridge Reactor Design Ltd, both based near Cambridge, are collab…

Drax to start energy crop farm

Added: 9 May 2011

Drax, UK – Drax is to start a 70-acre farm dedicated to the testing and development of energy crops…

Manufacturers still in the dark about energy costs

Added: 6 May 2011

London – Faced with higher energy costs UK manufacturers are still opting to switch energy supplier…

Eco-Oil switches to thermal fluid heating

Added: 6 May 2011

Ipswich, UK – Eco-Oil, a UK industrial waste oil recycler, has installed a TPC1000B thermal fluid h…

Major BP contract for AMEC in Azerbajian

Added: 5 May 2011

London - BP Azerbaijan has awarded AMEC a $600m brownfield contract, covering onshore and offshore …

Tata Steel invests to cut Port Talbot energy costs, expand Clydebridge

Added: 5 May 2011

Port Talbot, UK – Tata Steel has recently launched a £53-million investment at its Port Talbot work…

NSK bearings save European cement plant

Added: 4 May 2011

Newark, UK – A European cement plant, which was experiencing regular bearing failures on a high tem…

Amarinth gains Petronas approved vendor status

Added: 4 May 2011

Woodbridge, UK – Amarinth, a supplier of centrifugal pumps and associated equipment to the industri…