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Material improves efficiency of carbon capture

Added: 27 Feb 2013

Korean researchers have developed a material that could help cut carbon capture costs

Dalkia wood

Zero waste in industrial networks

Added: 21 Feb 2013

The ZeroWIN project aims to encourage the exchange of by-products within industry

Carbon sponge

Carbon sponge could improve CCS (Comment added)

Added: 19 Feb 2013

Researchers have developed a novel material that adsorbs large amounts of carbon dioxide

Sheffield Forgemasters

Forgemasters secures major Russian deal

Added: 22 Jan 2013

Sheffield Forgemasters has won a £3m contract with Russia’s largest steel company, Severstal

Eni chemicals plant

Versalis awards £8m contract to Redhall

Added: 17 Jan 2013

Wakefield, UK - Redhall Engineering has been awarded an £8m contract to provide integrated, multi-d…

Tata Steel Rotherham ABB2

Russian steel plants slip into higher gear

Added: 15 Jan 2013

London - Two Russian steel mills have increased productivity and reduced unscheduled downtime follo…

Kazak Copper mines

Atlas Copco buys BASF equipment business

Added: 8 Jan 2013

Ludwigshafen, Germany - BASF is selling its MEYCO Equipment business providing concrete spraying ma…

CAT Pumps Ecka metal powders2

Pumps switch at metal atomisation plant

Added: 2 Jan 2013

Wednesbury, UK – UK metal powders producer ECKA Granules has recently installed new pumps technolog…

Weir pumps for 200km pipeline project

Added: 16 Dec 2012

London – Weir Minerals has won an £8.6-million contract to supply centrifugal high-pressure pumps f…

Novozymes bio tech 2

Projects to address UK's material dependency

Added: 4 Dec 2012

The EPSRC is funding four new projects to address the UK’s limited resources and high material depe…

 A TATA ABB2

Tata saves £250k on fume-extraction energy costs

Added: 30 Nov 2012

Rotheram, UK – Tata Steel has cut annual energy costs by £250,000 following the installation of var…

Tata Steel to axe 900 jobs, restart blast furnace

Added: 23 Nov 2012

London - Tata Steel is to cut 900 jobs under a major restructure of its UK operations. The proposed…

CCS

Ohio researchers develop hybrid CO2 capture membrane

Added: 19 Nov 2012

Researchers at Ohio State University have developed a new hybrid membrane that combines the separat…

IsoCool Neproplast22

IsoCool nets Saudi contract

Added: 19 Nov 2012

Great Notley, UK – Process cooling company IsoCool has secured a contract with Neproplast, part of …

Saint-Gobain furnace2

Cutting through the green tape

Added: 19 Nov 2012

Around 26% of the power Saint-Gobain used in the UK came from renewable sources last year - a figur…

UK energy research receives funding boost

Added: 13 Nov 2012

One of the Research Councils’ biggest investments in research to support energy efficiency policy a…

Metso Sa[ppi2

Metso valves for Sappi expansion

Added: 3 Nov 2012

Helsinki – Metso will deliver all the automated process valves required for Sappi’s fiberline expan…

Membrane

Pores in graphene could lead to better membranes

Added: 25 Oct 2012

Researchers from MIT Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have discovered tiny pores in graphene th…

Oil spill

Using paper to clean up oil spills

Added: 23 Oct 2012

A project in Slovenia is hoping to transform papermill sludge into an absorbent capable of cleaning…

Tata Steel Rotherham ABB2

Saint-Gobain PAM highlights sustainabilty gains

Added: 19 Oct 2012

London – Iron products manufacturer leader Saint-Gobain PAM UK, part of Saint-Gobain, has released …