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Biogas boost for food processors

Added: 11 Sep 2014

Food and drink processors with anaerobic digestion (AD) facilities were yesterday given a boost by …

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£60m graphene centre announced

Added: 11 Sep 2014

Chancellor George Osborne yesterday announced plans to build a second graphene research centre at t…

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Engineers against Scottish independence

Added: 9 Sep 2014

More than 60% of chemical engineers in Scotland will vote against independence, a new survey has re…

Pharmaceutical industry must focus on manufacturing

Summer bounce for manufacturing

Added: 9 Sep 2014

Manufacturing and in particular process industries like pharmaceuticals returned to growth this sum…

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Fieldbus-HART merger confirmed

Added: 5 Sep 2014

The Fieldbus Foundation and HART Communication Foundation will merge to form a new body called Fiel…

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Food & Drink investment to rise

Added: 5 Sep 2014

After several years of low spending, the majority of food & drink manufacturers now expect to inves…

Siemens Congleton drives plant

Energy efficiency spend to rise, says Siemens

Added: 3 Sep 2014

More than two thirds of UK manufacturers are planning to increase investment in energy management o…

BP plant operator

BP seeks future leaders in recruitment drive

Added: 2 Sep 2014

BP today launched a two-month recruitment drive to hire up to 30 potential new leaders of its globa…

IGas chairman Francis Gugen

IGas nears fracking in North West

Added: 2 Sep 2014

Shale developer IGas yesterday revealed it was ready to design a fracking programme for its license…

Hitachi Horizon Wylfa nuclear plant

Cavendish Fluor to run 12 nuclear sites

Added: 1 Sep 2014

A joint venture of Fluor and Babcock subsidiary Cavendish Nuclear was today formally awarded the co…

GE Technology Solutions Center

GE launches oil & gas technology centre

Added: 27 Aug 2014

GE Oil & Gas yesterday officially launched its new $5 million technology centre in Norway.

Bosch Rexroth oil analysis

Slick solution for machine downtime

Added: 27 Aug 2014

Bosch Rexroth has launched a new oil analysis service to help service and maintenance engineers to …

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Reform engineering GCSE, industry urges

Added: 21 Aug 2014

On GCSE results day, industry body calls for the reform rather than the removal of engineering qual…

KSB valve factory

KSB invests in valves factory

Added: 19 Aug 2014

The new building will accommodate test facilities for the production of KSB’s triple-offset butterf…

Premier Oil North Sea platform

Rotork buys Xylem oil & gas valves

Added: 19 Aug 2014

Xylem has sold its UK oil & gas valves business to Rotork for $30 million (£18 million).

Ineos Grangemouth

Ineos buys majority shale licence

Added: 19 Aug 2014

Chemicals firm to become “major player” in the UK onshore gas production sector.

Amec Dunlin A North Sea oil

UK oil estimates “incredibly pessimistic”

Added: 18 Aug 2014

North Sea oil & gas estimates could be far higher than economic watchdog forecasts, according to a …

Molikpak platform, Russia

Honeywell to upgrade offshore platform

Added: 12 Aug 2014

Honeywell Process Solutions is set to upgrade safety and process systems in the Sakhalin shelf.

Shale tweet

DECC contradicts fracking poll

Added: 12 Aug 2014

Figures released by the Department of Energy & Climate Change (DECC) contradict yesterday’s poll th…

Shale fracking

Majority of UK supports fracking

Added: 11 Aug 2014

Public opinion poll suggests ’widespread backing’ for shale gas production to go ahead in the UK.