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Saint-Gobain signs first renewable energy deals
Added: 24 Sep 2012
London – Saint-Gobain UK & Ireland has recenty signed its first renewable energy power purchase agr…

Recycler trims £50k off energy bill
Added: 17 Sep 2012
A plastics recycling company is set to save nearly £50,000 a year on energy costs following the fit…

Tata Steel installs new switchgear system
Added: 17 Sep 2012
London – Tata Steel has installed a new medium voltage (MV) switchgear system as part of an upgrade…

Burning matters
Added: 14 Sep 2012
Converting coal plants to burn biomass has tested the ingenuity of process engineers. Patrick Ralei…

Oxy-combustion to help CEMEX cut energy costs
Added: 10 Sep 2012
London - Air Products is to provide five CEMEX cement plants in Spain with its Prism on-site oxygen…

Getting on with wireless
Added: 6 Sep 2012
London – Even the more optimistic among proponents of convergence between WirelessHart and ISA100.1…

Steel unit emissions down 40%
Added: 5 Sep 2012
Cumbria, UK – Tata Steel has achieved a 40% reduction in atmospheric emissions from a limestone kil…

Major potash mine planned for Yorkshire
Added: 5 Sep 2012
London - Sirius Minerals Plc has is planning to establish a major potash mine within the boundaries…

Drive saves Kent metals company £10k a year
Added: 4 Sep 2012
Sittingbourne, UK – Medway Galvanising Co. Ltd is set to save over £10,000 a year in electrical ene…
Japanese researchers improve coating technique
Added: 31 Aug 2012
A research group at the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) in Japan have improved a co…

Micropump aids glass manufacturing process
Added: 24 Aug 2012
Today’s building designs require manufacturers to continually develop materials which meet the chal…

Engineer sans frontiers
Added: 17 Aug 2012
When process engineers apply their skills to other fields, remarkable results can be achieved. Elli…

Tata drives down pump energy costs
Added: 30 Jul 2012
Rotherham, UK – Tata Steel expects to reduce energy costs by £68,000 a year following the installat…

Proactive maintenance key to plant safety
Added: 25 Jul 2012
?Process operators, it seems, are starting to realise the close relationship between safety and the…

Collaboration to produce butadiene from biomass
Added: 24 Jul 2012
Versalis, Eni’s chemicals subsidiary in the production of elastomers, together with Genomatica and …

Analysis of petroleum soil contamination
Added: 24 Jul 2012
A new hand-held device for rapid on-site analysis of petroleum soil contamination could facilitate …

Bridging the divide
Added: 23 Jul 2012
The UK process industries need to resolve long-standing differences between academics and businesse…

EU-backed project harnesses the potential of food waste
Added: 23 Jul 2012
York, UK- Scientists at the University of York are leading a major EU-backed network that is explor…

Air-tight energy saving at materials company Marshalls
Added: 20 Jul 2012
London – Compressed air is used in almost all industrial businesses, and uses more than 10% of elec…

Oil-free units to save Merck Euro60k a year
Added: 20 Jul 2012
Gernsheim, Germany – Merck KGaA, a paint manufacturer based in Gernsheim, is set to save Euro60,000…