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ABB adds major drive-systems order in Kazakhstan
Added: 25 May 2012
London – ABB has won a $44-million order to deliver three gearless mill drive systems (GMDs) for a …

PVC flooring major Beaulieu filters out downtime
Added: 23 May 2012
London – Flooring manufacturer Beaulieu International Group has increased productivity following a …

Tata Steel plant knocks £10k off its energy bill
Added: 21 May 2012
Stocksbridge, UK – Tata Steel has reduced energy bills on the finishing process at its steel plant …

Rio Tinto teams up with Imperial College
Added: 18 May 2012
Rio Tinto and Imperial have announced scholarships to support the training of engineers

UK 'game' aids Saudi Arabia's largest steel maker
Added: 17 May 2012
Warrington, UK – Saudi Arabia’s largest steel manufacturer, Hadeed, is rolling out an intensive wor…

KIRK progresses Tullis Russell biomass plant
Added: 17 May 2012
Glenrothes, UK – KIRK Environmental has announced that construction is well underway on its part of…

Industry concern over insolvency of aluminium major
Added: 14 May 2012
Berlin – The insolvency proceedings initiated by Voerde Aluminium GmbH – the 3rd largest aluminium …

SSI injects £30m into steelworks
Added: 4 May 2012
Sahaviriya Steel Industries (SSI) has commissioned a £30m pulverised coal injection (PCI) plant at …

Project targets energy lost during aluminium recycling
Added: 25 Apr 2012
London - HRS Heat Exchangers is to participate in ALUSALT – a consortium seeking to develop an adva…

Contracts & Projects Tracker: Materials
Added: 24 Apr 2012
Current project activity in the metal, pulp & paper, plastics and ceramics industries

Thai group restarts Teesside blast furnace
Added: 17 Apr 2012
Redcar, UK - Sahaviriya Steel Industries (SSI) has restarted the blast furnace at the Redcar steel …

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…