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Poultry processing

Food industry targets innovation for growth

Added: 12 Dec 2013

Greater use of sensors across processing plants and the simulation and modelling of new facilities …

Grundfos pump

Pump guidance “misleading”

Added: 11 Dec 2013

Firms trying to use electric motor efficiency ratings to sell wastewater pumps are guilty of mislea…

Muller's new butter churn facility

Müller opens £17m butter plant

Added: 10 Dec 2013

The £17 million butter plant located in Shropshire will initially manufacture 10kg and 25kg blocks …

White Rose CCS carbon capture Drax

Drax CCS wins FEED funding

Added: 9 Dec 2013

The firms behind a planned £2.2bn coal-fired plant fully equipped with Carbon Capture and Storage (…

Autumn Statement outlines boost for skills sector

Skills sector must maintain support

Added: 6 Dec 2013

Engineering bodies have welcomed the Chancellor’s Autumn Statement but have urged the UK government…

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…