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Nestlé unveils youth employment initiative

Added: 15 Nov 2013

Nestlé UK & Ireland today announced it will create 1,900 jobs and 300 paid work experience placemen…

Honeywell Profit Suite R400 process optimisation software

Honeywell wins Chinese petrochemical deal

Added: 15 Nov 2013

Chinese national oil company Sinopec has selected process optimisation software by Honeywell for th…

Bosch consilidates northern facilites

Bosch opens UK engineering support facility

Added: 15 Nov 2013

Bosch has opened a single facility in the north of England to consolidate its industrial drives and…

Typhoon Haiyan devastation

BASF donates €300,000 to Philippines appeal

Added: 14 Nov 2013

German chemicals giant BASF today announced it was donating €300,000 to relief efforts in the Phili…

North Sea offshore oil and gas

AMEC wins North Sea platform contract

Added: 13 Nov 2013

AMEC has won a hook-up and commissioning contract at four GDF Suez platforms at its Cygnus gas fiel…

Premier Oil North Sea platform

UK needs North Sea regulator

Added: 12 Nov 2013

The UK needs a new dedicated regulator for the North Sea if a potential extra 24 billion barrels of…

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UK oil recycling deal agreed

Added: 12 Nov 2013

Oil recycling firm Hydrodec has announced it will collaborate with Essar Oil UK to develop a re-ref…

Sellafield nuclear reactor plant

Technique to cut nuclear waste "by 95%"

Added: 11 Nov 2013

Engineers from the University of Sheffield have developed a technique to reduce the volume of highe…

Poultry processing

Cargill to upgrade UK process plant

Added: 7 Nov 2013

Cargill is currently upgrading its poultry processing plant in Hereford with a £35m phased-investme…

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Process industries “ignoring” cyber threat

Added: 5 Nov 2013

Owners and operators of process plants are failing to take the threat of system software hacking se…

Nuclear

Energy sector growth despite uncertainties

Added: 4 Nov 2013

The UK energy sector has contributed £102bn to the UK economy since 2012, despite many power plant …

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Review calls for young engineers

Added: 4 Nov 2013

The Perkins Review will highlight the need to attract more young people to careers within the engin…

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BP to invest in oil & gas research

Added: 4 Nov 2013

BP announced last week it is to invest £2.5m ($4m) into leading-edge energy research and shale gas …

Shale gas

Lords to hear shale extraction evidence

Added: 1 Nov 2013

The House of Lords Economic Affairs Committee will hear evidence next week from companies wanting t…

CCS plant

Surge in combined heat & power use

Added: 31 Oct 2013

Combined heat and power (CHP) energy generation has seen an increase in its share of the UK supply,…

Water

UK & US to work on water projects

Added: 30 Oct 2013

Engineers from UK & US universities will collaborate on the ‘clean water for all’ projects to devel…

Chemical Plant

DuPont to spin-off performance chemicals arm

Added: 29 Oct 2013

DuPont announced last week that it is to spin-off its performance chemicals segment to shareholders.

Ineos Grangemouth

Grangemouth petrochem to reopen

Added: 25 Oct 2013

Chemicals firm Ineos today confirmed it was reopening the Grangemouth petrochemicals complex and pr…

BASF performance products

BASF closes UK pigment plant

Added: 23 Oct 2013

German chemicals giant BASF today announced it was closing its pigment plant in Paisley, Scotland.

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Grangemouth petrochem closes

Added: 23 Oct 2013

Ineos this morning announced it was permanently closing its Grangemouth petrochemical plant in Scot…