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Apprentices success story to end?

Added: 8 Mar 2012

London – T?ime is running out for the Tees Valley Apprenticeship Programme (TVAP) in the North East…

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…

Raman

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…

Aramco, Dow tap Foster Wheeler for Saudi propylene oxide project

Added: 13 Feb 2012

Zug, Switzerland - Saudi Aramco and Dow Europe have awarded Foster Wheeler an engineering, procurem…

EU project targets biomass-to-chemicals processes

Added: 3 Feb 2012

Closing the gap between laboratory and the industrial practice for the production of chemicals from…

UK chemical engineering course applications up 12%

Added: 31 Jan 2012

London – Chemical engineering degree courses have attracted 11,890 applications, 12.4% more than th…

Pigments

Rockwood Pigments moves to paper-free maintenance

Added: 31 Jan 2012


Rockwood Pigments’ manufacturing site at Kidsgrove, Stoke-on-Trent, is on its way to saying goodbye…

Total to expand Korean petchem complex

Added: 27 Jan 2012

Paris – Total is to expand and upgrade the Daesan petrochemicals complex in South Korea, which it o…

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…

EU to triple banned-chemicals list

Added: 24 Jan 2012

London – Manufacturers and distributors across a broad range of industries which place products on …

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…

Bayer centre targets isocyanate process advances

Added: 17 Jan 2012

Leverkusen, Germany – Bayer MaterialScience has commissioned a new Euro5-million technical center f…

Biochemical plants in chimneys

Added: 11 Jan 2012

?RWE Power and biotechnology company BRAIN are to expand their joint CO2 -to-chemicals research in …

Oakwell orders 43 Litre Meter flowmeters for Dubai project

Added: 8 Dec 2011

London – Litre Meter has shipped 43 VFF positive displacement flowmeters to Singapore-based Oakwell…

Shell nears phosgene-free feedstock link-up with polycarbonate major

Added: 24 Nov 2011

Amsterdam - Shell is “very, very close” to commercialising a technology for the production of diphe…

SABIC safeguards UK pipeline

Added: 17 Nov 2011

London – Hima-Sella has completed delivery on safety systems for all 20 valve stations along the le…

Shell Pearl GTL

Shell advances intelligent valve technology at Singapore site

Added: 9 Nov 2011

London –  Shell’s largest petrochemicals investment to date, the Houdini project in Singapore, feat…

Huntsman site revamp tops IChemE awards

Added: 7 Nov 2011

London – Huntsman Pigments has won the top prize at the IChemE 2011 Awards for a project that revam…

Career charters at Sellafield, Tata

Added: 1 Nov 2011

Professional accreditation can deliver some important career benefits for engineers working at vari…