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Materials costs bug Unilever boss

Added: 28 Apr 2011

London – Rising raw materials costs are worrying Unilever CEO Paul Polman, despite him delivering a…

ABB to profit from commodity price hikes

Added: 28 Apr 2011

Zurich, Switzerland, – ABB has achieved a double-digit rise in orders, revenues and earnings for Q1…

Finnish power company adds Metso energy management system

Added: 28 Apr 2011

London – Metso is to supply an energy management system to Pori Energia in Pori, Finland. It will b…

Siemens boss: UK manufacturers losing out to Germany

Added: 28 Apr 2011

London – The latest CBI manufacturing survey and manufacturing production statistics suggests that …

Alfa Laval buoyed by oil & gas, process

Added: 27 Apr 2011

Stockholm – Higher demand from the oil & gas and process sectors helped Alfa Laval to a 27% order-i…

Shale gas fuels Dow expansion plans

Added: 27 Apr 2011

Midland, Michigan - Dow Chemical Co. plans to increase its ethylene and propylene production and to…

Metso to convert Polish coal-fired plant to biomass

Added: 26 Apr 2011

London – Metso has received a Euro20m order to convert a coal-fired CFB boiler to a biomass-fired b…

Helius Energy awards Scottish biomass CHP contracts

Added: 19 Apr 2011

?London – Helius CoRDe Ltd – a JV between Helius Energy plc, Rabo Project Equity BV and The Combina…

Siemens to start remote maintenance services

Added: 15 Apr 2011

Manchester, UK – Siemens Industry Automation & Drive Technologies is adding remote services to its …

Statoil taps Foster Wheeler for Arctic LNG work

Added: 14 Apr 2011

Reading, UK – Statoil Petroleum AS has awarded Foster Wheeler a pre-FEED contract for the Snøhvit F…

Nexans nets major cable contract for Brazil petrochemical complex

Added: 14 Apr 2011

Paris – Nexans has won a ’multi-million Euros’ turnkey contract at the new COMPERJ petrochemical co…

ABB to automate Scottish paper mill

Added: 14 Apr 2011

Aberdeen, UK – Arjowiggins Creative Papers has awarded ABB a contract to provide new automation tec…

Fluor links with predictive maintenance firm Azima DLI

Added: 14 Apr 2011

Irving, Texas - Fluor Corp is to team with Azima DLI of based in Woburn, Massachusetts-based suppli…

Tata Steel awards npower UK's "biggest ever" power contract

Added: 13 Apr 2011

London – Under one of the UK’s biggest ever industrial energy supply contracts, npower is to provid…

Vivergo workers target BP AGM over "lock out"

Added: 11 Apr 2011

London – Unions are to stage a protest at the BP AGM on 14 April over the plight of 430 workers who…

UK oil assets on the block

Added: 7 Apr 2011

Shell, BP and INEOS all announce proposals to divest operations by the end of 2011

Fluor nets Tata Steel power plant contract

Added: 7 Apr 2011

London – Fluor Corp. has won a six-month early engineering works contract by Tata Steel for a new p…

GE claims battery-free wireless 'first'

Added: 6 Apr 2011

Minden, Nevada – GE Measurement & Control Solutions claims to have developed the world’s first elec…

Superconductor devices to tackle growing power network problems

Added: 5 Apr 2011

London – Power networks are generally designed with a relatively low impedance between the generato…

ABB targets power factor savings at process plants

Added: 5 Apr 2011

London – Power factor (PF) is a big issue for UK industry that impacts energy efficiency and electr…