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EDF apprentice trainee skills2

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 …

Balmenach distillery

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 …

Drax biomass storage domes

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…

Dounreay birds eye view

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…

Nestle apprenctice at work Jordan Phillips

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…

Fluke power logger app

Energy efficiency portal

Added: 16 Jul 2014

Fluke has developed an Energy Efficiency portal on its UK website to help maintenance professionals…

David Willetts

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…

Copyright: Sulzer. Sulzer test bed for submersible pumps in Leeds, UK

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

Biomass pre-processing study launches

Added: 11 Jul 2014

The Energy Technologies Institute (ETI) today launched a programme assessing the impact of pre-proc…

AD

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…

White Rose CCS carbon capture Drax

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

Pharma leads manufacturing fall

Added: 9 Jul 2014

UK manufacturing has suffered biggest fall in output since January 2013, with pharmaceuticals among…

Landia GasMix at Cory AD plant

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

Capita acquires process project manager

Added: 4 Jul 2014

Capita today announced it had acquired project management firm Projen, a specialist in process sect…

Belgian water-link project

KSB supplies water-link project

Added: 2 Jul 2014

Pumps firm supplies motors and pumps to water-link project in Belgium.

Monsal AD tech

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…

Peterhad CCGT plant, Aberdeenshire

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…

Sellafield nuclear reactor plant

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…

CCS plant

£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…

EDF Hinkley Point C nuclear power

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…