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Smurfit Kappa saves £70k on stacker refurishment
Added: 13 Apr 2012
Mold, UK – Smurfit Kappa has saved nearly £70,000 by using ABB motion control products in a refurbi…
Mobile technology improves process efficiency at ArcelorMittal
Added: 12 Apr 2012
London - ArcelorMittal, the world’s largest steel maker, has achieved significant efficiency gains …
Everbuild invests to handle it all
Added: 10 Apr 2012
Leeds, UK – ?Everbuild Building Products Ltd of Leeds requires its solids handling equipment to dea…
ABB nets service contract at Sappi paper mill
Added: 27 Mar 2012
London – Sapppi has awarded ABB a five-year ‘maintenance improvement agreement’ to manage and impro…
Particle size analyser put Italian cement maker in control
Added: 21 Mar 2012
Tavernola, Italy – Cement producer Sacci SpA is employing an on-line laser diffraction particle siz…
Pressure pumps solve resin mix problem
Added: 7 Mar 2012
Woking, UK- Hydra-cell high pressure pumps have helped solve a sand resin mix dispensing problem at…
Contracts & Projects Tracker: February 2012
Added: 5 Mar 2012
Virtalis has designed and installed two virtual reality systems for the new Nuclear AMRC, which was…
Norwegian researchers develop powerful radiation sensor
Added: 2 Mar 2012
Oslo, Norway- Scientists at the Norwegian Micro and Nano Laboratory have created one of the most ad…
Laser beams help detect chemicals over long distances
Added: 28 Feb 2012
Researchers at the Vienna University of Technology have developed a method of detecting chemicals w…
Lubricant saves energy at German plastics plant
Added: 24 Feb 2012
Brussels – Ostendorf, one of Germany’s largest producers of plastics pipes and shaped products, has…
Scientists develop bespoke piezoelectric material
Added: 21 Feb 2012
Atlanta, US- Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a manufacturing proc…
SAICA starts new recycled paper mill in Manchester
Added: 17 Feb 2012
Manchester, UK – SAICA’s new recycled paper mill in Partington has produced its first paper - ahead…
Heat exchangers keep pressure up at new UK paper mill
Added: 16 Feb 2012
Watford, UK – HRS Heat Exchangers Ltd has recently supplied Gas Compressors Ltd. with a multi-tube …
Bayer CO2-to-plastics project among best ideas for the future
Added: 6 Feb 2012
Leverkusen, Germany – A Bayer project for using the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide as a component fo…
Oil-condition sensors can save miners money
Added: 2 Feb 2012
London – Unexpected equipment failure and unplanned down-time significantly impacts on operational …
Delta-blade mixer helps Flowcrete meet increased demand
Added: 26 Jan 2012
Sandbach, UK – Flowcrete UK Ltd has installed a delta-blade (or plough-type) mixer from John R Boon…
System integrators in demand in India
Added: 25 Jan 2012
London – Manufacturing companies in India are increasingly turning to system integrators to impleme…
GAMBICA details 'Automated Britain' event
Added: 24 Jan 2012
London – GAMBICA and Intellect have issued more detail about their jointly organised conference eve…
Three big issues in 2012
Added: 23 Jan 2012
London – In the run-up to the recent holiday period I got to quiz a good number of UK engineers, fr…
Virtual reality for UK nuclear reactor group
Added: 20 Jan 2012
Sheffield, UK – Virtalis has designed and installed two virtual reality (VR) systems for the new Nu…
