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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…

Polymers from CO2

Added: 22 Mar 2011

Bayer has started up a pilot plant at its Chempark Leverkusen site to turn CO2 emissions into feeds…

Thermal transfer: Technologies to watch

Added: 22 Mar 2011

Heat Transfer Systems is introducing its HTfluidfit rig to customer sites following field trials. D…

Elite role for Centre for Process Innovation

Added: 21 Mar 2011

London – The Centre for Process Innovation (CPI) is to be part of a new UK “elite technology innova…

Saudi Aramco taps Samsung for major gas projects

Added: 21 Mar 2011

Dhahran – Saudi Aramco has selected Samsung Engineering Co. Ltd. to perform the EPC work for all fo…

Uhde building 'first ever' skid-mounted chlor-alkali plant  

Added: 18 Mar 2011

Leuna, Germany – Uhde GmbH has started construction of what, it believes, will be the world’s first…

Shell to spend $100bn over next four years

Added: 16 Mar 2011

London – Buoyed by strong demand fundamentals in world energy markets, Shell is planning to deliver…

RWE pulls plug on German nuclear plant

Added: 15 Mar 2011

Essen, Germany – RWE is shutting down its Biblis Block A nuclear power unit in Germany to carry out…

Wireless market growing 18%

Added: 15 Mar 2011

Wellingborough, UK – World shipments of industrial products that are wireless-enabled are growing 1…

Carbon pricing policy could 'floor' industry

Added: 15 Mar 2011

The UK government has been warned that its ’Floor Price’ policy for carbon - intended to accelerate…