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Hitachi Horizon Wylfa nuclear plant

£190bn of process projects in national plan

Added: 4 Dec 2013

Over £190 billion of projects featuring process technologies have been identified in the latest ver…

Chemical Plant

Global safety standard being developed

Added: 3 Dec 2013

The International Council of Chemicals Associations (ICCA) is currently developing a performance me…

Ineos Grangemouth

Grangemouth shale gas import site selected

Added: 3 Dec 2013

Ineos Petrochemicals today confirmed it had selected the location of an ethane tank it plans to bui…

Honeywell KNPC refinery signing James King Khaled Al-Awadhi

Honeywell wins Middle East’s largest refinery

Added: 3 Dec 2013

Honeywell has won the contract to automate what will be the Middle East’s largest refinery. 

Sita Severnside Energy from Waste

£1.4bn deal for 34MW waste plant

Added: 3 Dec 2013

Hitachi Zosen Inova is to build a 34MW energy from waste (EfW) plant after its client SITA signed a…

A skiils show front kids2

Engineering apprenticeships drop 12%

Added: 2 Dec 2013

The number of people aged under 19 taking engineering-related Advanced Level Apprenticeships has fa…

Food Industry and academics discuss vision for Centre of Excellence

Food engineering centre vision agreed

Added: 2 Dec 2013

The vision that will drive a national Centre of Excellence for Food Engineering was agreed by indus…

GSK process safety module

GSK to pilot process safety course

Added: 2 Dec 2013

GlaxoSmithKline has partnered with the University of Sheffield to develop a short course that addre…

PSM is deemed by the HSE to be a ‘hot topic’ for high-hazard sites

Communication is key to safety

Added: 29 Nov 2013

Process safety management is a constantly evolving field, but good communication remains fundamenta…

BASF Abu Dhabi Petroleum Institute gas treatment

BASF and Abu Dhabi in joint gas research

Added: 29 Nov 2013

BASF and the Petroleum Institute (PI) of Abu Dhabi today announced their intention to collaborate o…

Shale gas fracking

Shale impact set to be "minimised"

Added: 27 Nov 2013

Water UK and the UK Onshore Operators Group (UKOOG) will work together to help minimise the impact …

Cory Environmental opens its first AD plant in Somerset

Cory opens first AD plant

Added: 26 Nov 2013

Cory Environmental has opened its first anaerobic digestion (AD) plant capable of generating 500kw …

The Shell petrochemicals facility in Singapore

UK manufacturing firms “reshoring”

Added: 25 Nov 2013

The Manufacturing Advisory Service’s (MAS) latest barometer indicates that more firms are returning…

Emerson Hauneng Quinbei super critical coal power plant

UK to limit overseas coal-fired plant financing

Added: 25 Nov 2013

Secretary of State Edward Davey announced last week that the UK is to severely restrict its support…

Biogen AD plant

AD feed-in tariffs "can be withdrawn"

Added: 22 Nov 2013

The government should consider withdrawing feed-in tariffs (FiTs) for anaerobic digestion (AD) plan…

CCS plant

Manufacturing hits 18-year high

Added: 21 Nov 2013

UK manufacturing growth over the past three months was its strongest for 18 years, according to the…

Edmonton feedstock plant

Steam cracker is 'industry first'

Added: 20 Nov 2013

A feedstock steam cracker in Singapore is said to be the first industry facility capable of convert…

Enquest North Sea Oil Gas

North Sea £4bn heavy oil project approved

Added: 19 Nov 2013

Oil developer EnQuest has approved a £4 billion investment in a new North Sea project east of the S…

Air Products Prism hydrogen generator

ArcelorMittal buys hydrogen generators

Added: 19 Nov 2013

Industrial gas specialist Air Products today announced it had signed a deal to supply Indian steel …

Greenpeace Warsaw coal protest

Coal industry calls for technology backing

Added: 18 Nov 2013

Leading figures in the global coal industry gathered in Warsaw today to call for governments to bac…