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Industry concerns mount over UK 'triple whammy'
Added: 22 Jul 2011
A series of government initiatives on taxation and carbon reduction is causing significant concern …

Lake Garda paper mill adds Emerson meter
Added: 30 Jun 2011
Lake Garda, Italy – Cartiere del Garda is using a density meter from Emerson Process Management to …

Peru miner Volcan taps DavyMarkham
Added: 25 May 2011
Sheffield, UK – DavyMarkham has secured its first contract in Peru with a $5.4m deal to supply two …

Compressors help Alcoa to up productivity, lower maintenance costs
Added: 24 May 2011
San Ciprián, Spain – Aluminium producer Alcoa has installed 33 compressors as part of plans to incr…

Tata Steel to axe 1,500 jobs in UK
Added: 20 May 2011
London – Tata Steel is to restructure its ’long products’ business unit to target high-value market…

Atlas Copco for Ma'aden aluminium project
Added: 19 May 2011
Stockholm – Atlas Copco has received two orders totaling $50m, related to the Ma’aden aluminum proj…

Steel maker taps Metso for new plant
Added: 13 May 2011
Espoo, Finland – Finnish steel major Outokumpu has awarded Metso Corp an electrification and automa…

Ladle radars help Tata Steel to £12m savings
Added: 15 Apr 2011
Scunthorpe, UK – Tata Steel in Scunthorpe is running at full capacity again producing steel slab, b…

ABB to automate Scottish paper mill
Added: 14 Apr 2011
Aberdeen, UK – Arjowiggins Creative Papers has awarded ABB a contract to provide new automation tec…

Dewatering at Scottish mine
Added: 14 Apr 2011
Aberfeldy, UK – Foss Mine in Aberfeldy, Scotland which has mined Barite since 1984 and currently pr…

Tata Steel awards npower UK's "biggest ever" power contract
Added: 13 Apr 2011
London – Under one of the UK’s biggest ever industrial energy supply contracts, npower is to provid…

Software aids Novacem's 'carbon-negative' cement process
Added: 31 Mar 2011
London – Novacem is using Autodesk’s AutoCAD Plant 3D software to optimise its plant design and pro…

Concrete gain
Added: 22 Mar 2011
Plasmor, a UK independent manufacturer of concrete paving, building blocks, architectural masonry a…

SCA's comfort zone
Added: 22 Mar 2011
Tissue-paper manufacturer SCA Hygiene Products UK, based in Prudhoe, has eliminated unscheduled boi…

Flowmeters help BearCat tame rubberised asphalt
Added: 17 Mar 2011
Boulder, Colorado – BearCat Pumps of Phoenix, Arizona, is using high temperature Coriolis mass flow…

UPM drives improvement at paper plant
Added: 4 Mar 2011
Shotton, UK – UPM has completed an extensive low voltage AC drive refurbishment programme at its S…

TATA Steel cuts emissions by 40% at Cumbrian site
Added: 26 Oct 2010
Shapfell, UK – Scrubber technology designed, manufactured and installed by ACWA AIR, has helped Tat…

Thai buyers promise 1000 jobs at Corus plant
Added: 22 Oct 2010
London – Thai steelmaker SSI, which is buying Corus’ mothballed Teesside Cast Products plant, will…

Denca for Rio de Janeiro control systems project
Added: 13 Oct 2010
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil – Denca has been awarded a “significant” project in Brazil that is centred a…

SAICA paper mill for Manchester
Added: 15 Jan 2010
London – Spanish paper and packaging group SAICA is to invest £290 million to build a recycled pape…