All Environment


Software helps to save water

Added: 7 Feb 2001

Process integration has been applied to water flow and consumption, with encouraging results.

Relieve the pressure

Added: 7 Feb 2001

Are you feeling the pressure yet? In just over a year's time, the Pressure Equipment Directive will…

Hydrogen storage joint venture unveiled

Added: 6 Feb 2001

Shell Hydrogen, Hydro-Quebec (HQ) and Gesellschaft fur Elektrometallurgie (GfE) are to establish a …

Swedish Space and Volvo to develop environmentally friendly rocket fuel

Added: 31 Jan 2001

The Swedish Space Corporation and Volvo Aero have formed a joint-venture company to develop environ…

Going green in a supercritical way

Added: 30 Jan 2001

Researchers at the Taiwanese Industrial Technology Research Institute have developed a water-saving…

Wastewater is the fuel

Added: 29 Jan 2001

FuelCell Energy is to install and operate a 1MW Direct FuelCell power plant in Renton, Washington u…

Mercury testing in Alabama

Added: 14 Dec 2000

Alabama Power has been selected by the US Department of Energy to participate in a programme to …

Time running out over Climate Change Levy

Added: 13 Dec 2000

The Climate Change Levy comes into force in April, but companies still do not know how it will affe…

'Landfill habit' could be difficult to break

Added: 6 Dec 2000

The UK could need to more than treble the amount of waste it recycles if it is to meet Euro…

Say no to halogens

Added: 22 Nov 2000

NEC Corporation researchers have developed a printed wiring board (PWB) free of halogen and…

Clean gasoline

Added: 17 Nov 2000

BP claims to have developed a breakthrough gasoline desulphurisation technology that has the potent…

AEP to fund first demo of emission reduction technology

Added: 15 Nov 2000

American Electric Power (AEP) is to finance the first commercial-scale demonstration of the Thermal…

Online stewardship guide launched

Added: 7 Nov 2000

The Chemical Industries Association has launched an online product stewardship guide to pro…

Waste water recycled away from the glass of the day

Added: 7 Nov 2000

Pilkington Glass has found a way to recycle waste water from its diamond cutting process.

A challenge for a fuel

Added: 7 Nov 2000

Anxious to cut their manufacturing costs, cement companies are increasingly turning to alternative …

AMEC doubles US presence

Added: 7 Nov 2000

AMEC has bought Ogden Environmental and Energy Services, doubling the size of its US enviro…

HSE turns to name-and-shame tactics

Added: 7 Nov 2000

Companies which are prosecuted for environmental misdemeanours no longer have anywhere to hide. The…

Resistance is futile

Added: 23 Oct 2000

Mitsubishi Electric and SPC have jointly developed resist removal technology for use in the manufac…

Environment Agency spotlights polluters

Added: 6 Oct 2000

A report on industry's environmental performance pulls no punches in naming and shaming the…

New coating outperforms the competition

Added: 14 Sep 2000

High performance coatings have historically been made with solvents but new advances in waterborne…