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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…

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…