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Distillery secures Green Bank funding
Added: 30 Jul 2014
A Scottish distillery has secured finance to build a biomass boiler from the Green Investment Bank …
Well control course launched
Added: 30 Jul 2014
A free online course aimed at improving awareness of the life cycle of an oil well has been launche…
Scientists enhance bioplastics process
Added: 30 Jul 2014
Food waste method could dramatically enhance the way bioplastics are developed, new research sugges…
Shale drilling licensing launched
Added: 28 Jul 2014
The government this morning launched a new licensing round for onshore oil & gas exploration, aimed…
Subsidy wins for biomass and AD
Added: 25 Jul 2014
Biomass and anaerobic digestion (AD) plants will be able to compete for £155 million annually under…
UK plans national radioactive storage site
Added: 24 Jul 2014
Plans for a single geological disposal facility (GDF) to hold all of the UK’s radioactive waste wer…
Innovation spend hits 25-year high
Added: 23 Jul 2014
The number of manufacturers planning to invest in product and process innovation is at its highest …
Pharma firms to offer up compounds
Added: 23 Jul 2014
Seven pharmaceuticals companies are offering up their deprioritised compounds to UK researchers.
Traffic fears block shale bid
Added: 22 Jul 2014
Concerns over potentially high levels of traffic have led planners to block a proposed exploratory …
Foreign investment up in process sectors
Added: 21 Jul 2014
Nearly a fifth of all foreign investment in the UK is going to projects in the process sectors, acc…
Grangemouth LNG wins guarantee
Added: 17 Jul 2014
Ineos has received a £230 million loan guarantee from the government to support the financing of it…
Process champions moved in reshuffle
Added: 15 Jul 2014
Two key allies of the process industries were today removed from their posts by Prime Minister Davi…
Submersible pumps to hit £11bn
Added: 14 Jul 2014
The value of the global submersible pump market is likely to reach $18.9 billion (£11 billion) by 2…
Treasury launches North Sea tax review
Added: 14 Jul 2014
The government today launched a review of the oil & gas tax regime aimed at making the UK Continent…
Biomass pre-processing study launches
Added: 11 Jul 2014
The Energy Technologies Institute (ETI) today launched a programme assessing the impact of pre-proc…
Minister offers assurance on biogas tariffs
Added: 10 Jul 2014
The government is seeking to avoid the stalling of biogas projects under development by offering as…
Drax CCS secures Euro funding
Added: 9 Jul 2014
Drax’s White Rose Carbon Capture & Storage (CCS) project has received €300 million in funding from …
Pharma leads manufacturing fall
Added: 9 Jul 2014
UK manufacturing has suffered biggest fall in output since January 2013, with pharmaceuticals among…
£53m to boost science talent
Added: 8 Jul 2014
GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) will lead a consortium of industrial and scientific sector employers to help …
AD sector 'guilty of poor pump maintenance'
Added: 8 Jul 2014
Many of the country’s anaerobic digestion (AD) plants are ignoring maintenance of their mixing syst…
