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World’s first CCS plant opens
Added: 2 Oct 2014
The world’s first commercial-scale Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) will begin operating in Canada …
Ineos buys Grangemouth power plant
Added: 2 Oct 2014
Ineos today announced it is buying the gas-fired combined heat and power (CHP) plant that provides …
Renewables budget increased
Added: 2 Oct 2014
The government today announced it was increasing financial support for renewable energy by £95 mill…
UK shale far more complex than US
Added: 1 Oct 2014
Geologists yesterday warned that extraction of UK shale gas would require far more engineering expe…
Ineos warned over shale offer
Added: 30 Sep 2014
Ineos’ plan to offer 6% of its UK shale revenues to local communities has been accused of being pot…
Food efficiency fund launched
Added: 25 Sep 2014
An £11 million fund to encourage engineering innovation and improve resource efficiency in the food…
Tata Steel among Grid shutdown firms
Added: 24 Sep 2014
Tata Steel was yesterday confirmed as one of the hundreds of industrial firms to have signed up to …
Siemens buys Dresser-Rand for $7.6bn
Added: 22 Sep 2014
Siemens today announced it was acquiring Dresser-Rand for $7.6 billion (£4.6bn) and aimed to become…
Merck buys Sigma-Aldrich for £10bn
Added: 22 Sep 2014
Pharma and chemicals giant Merck has agreed to buy life sciences firm Sigma-Aldrich for approximate…
Arkema plans Total adhesives takeover
Added: 19 Sep 2014
Total today announced it had received a €1.74 billion (£1.36bn) bid from French chemicals giant Ark…
Fracking “cleared” of water pollution
Added: 16 Sep 2014
Contamination of groundwater near US shale sites was caused by well failures rather the hydraulic f…
AMEC to partner Chinese nuclear firm
Added: 12 Sep 2014
Engineering contractor AMEC today announced it had signed an agreement with China National Nuclear …
National Grid awards “shutdown” contracts
Added: 11 Sep 2014
National Grid is in the process of awarding contracts to major energy users such as process facilit…
Biogas boost for food processors
Added: 11 Sep 2014
Food and drink processors with anaerobic digestion (AD) facilities were yesterday given a boost by …
£60m graphene centre announced
Added: 11 Sep 2014
Chancellor George Osborne yesterday announced plans to build a second graphene research centre at t…
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…
Summer bounce for manufacturing
Added: 9 Sep 2014
Manufacturing and in particular process industries like pharmaceuticals returned to growth this sum…
Fieldbus-HART merger confirmed
Added: 5 Sep 2014
The Fieldbus Foundation and HART Communication Foundation will merge to form a new body called Fiel…
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…
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…
