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Just 6% of engineers are women
Added: 31 Jul 2014
On average just 6% of engineers in the UK are female, with the highest proportions occuring in the …

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 …
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…

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…

Energy efficiency portal
Added: 16 Jul 2014
Fluke has developed an Energy Efficiency portal on its UK website to help maintenance professionals…

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…

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…

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…

Capita acquires process project manager
Added: 4 Jul 2014
Capita today announced it had acquired project management firm Projen, a specialist in process sect…

KSB supplies water-link project
Added: 2 Jul 2014
Pumps firm supplies motors and pumps to water-link project in Belgium.

GE acquires water and biogas firm
Added: 1 Jul 2014
GE’s water business today announced it had acquired UK process firm Monsal, which specialises in th…

Government sets capacity auction at 53GW
Added: 30 Jun 2014
The UK’s first ever electricity generating capacity auction will take place later this year, the Go…
Toshiba seals Sellafield build deal
Added: 30 Jun 2014
Toshiba today completed its £102 million deal to acquire a 60% stake in NuGen, the company developi…

£2.6m for CCS research
Added: 20 Jun 2014
Fourteen Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) research projects in the UK are set to receive a combined…

UK-China deal on new nuclear
Added: 17 Jun 2014
The UK and China governments today signed a civil nuclear agreement, paving the way for Chinese fir…