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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…

Almost half of businesses want the CRC tax/scheme binned

Added: 1 Apr 2011

London – On the first anniversary of its implementation – perhaps tellingly 1 April – UK businesses…

UK Budget: Oil & gas showdown for UK chancellor

Added: 31 Mar 2011

London – Industry group Oil & Gas UK is to meet UK chancellor George Osborne in a bid to limit the …

UK slips down global 'green' projects league

Added: 31 Mar 2011

Philadelphia – UK-based investment in ’green’ energy projects slumped to $3.3 billion (around £2 bi…

Power from small amounts of waste process gas

Added: 31 Mar 2011

Amberg, Germany – Generating energy from process gasses that currently escape into the atmosphere i…

BP Oil awards storage terminals contract to AMEC

Added: 31 Mar 2011

London – BP Oil UK Ltd has appointed AMEC to carry out the engineering, procurement and constructio…

Lonza to expand UK manufacturing site

Added: 29 Mar 2011

Basel, Switzerland – Swiss group Lonza is to invest £16 million to further develop the flexibility …

Water infrastructure: Better 'snapshot' technologies needed

Added: 29 Mar 2011

Boston, Massachusetts – The market for technologies that help inspect and repair the world’s aging …

Stuxnet spurs ISA into action

Added: 29 Mar 2011

Research Triangle Park, North Carolina – The ISA (International Society of Automation) has set up a…

Foster Wheeler for Russian oil refinery

Added: 28 Mar 2011

Reading, UK – Foster Wheeler has been awarded a contract by JSC Novo-Ufimsky Refinery, part of Russ…

Yokogawa joins Profibus group

Added: 23 Mar 2011

Runcorn, UK – Yokogawa Electric Corp. has joined the PROFIBUS Nutzerorganisation eV (PNO), an inter…

Watson-Marlow sales up 23%

Added: 23 Mar 2011

Falmouth, UK – Watson-Marlow Pumps Group has reported a 38% rise in its operating profit to £30.8 m…