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Pump makers battle Green Deal exclusion
Added: 17 Aug 2012
London – The British Pump Manufacturers Association (BPMA) is challenging the Building Research Est…

Plunger pumps for margarine plant
Added: 13 Aug 2012
Cheshire, UK – Amtech Developments Ltd, which supplies food processing and packaging equipment, has…

Alcoa piping for Brunei Shell project
Added: 13 Aug 2012
SERIA, Brunei — Alcoa’s oil & gas business has deployed 1800 metres of aluminium alloy drill pipe (…

Disconnect while live connector for hazardous atmospheres
Added: 9 Aug 2012
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Why pumps should operate efficiently
Added: 9 Aug 2012
Jeremy Salisbury, of UK maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) products and services company Bramme…

Russell Finex at PPMA 2012
Added: 8 Aug 2012
Featured on the Russell Finex stand will be recognised machines including the Russell Compact Sieve…

Solid approach to oil pollution
Added: 8 Aug 2012
London - UK Power Networks, the UK’s largest public utility, is to trial a pollution prevention sys…

Chemicals maker tracks turbo issue
Added: 3 Aug 2012
Florence, Kentucky – Torque-monitoring systems are widely used to identify gradual efficiency loss …

Tata drives down pump energy costs
Added: 30 Jul 2012
Rotherham, UK – Tata Steel expects to reduce energy costs by £68,000 a year following the installat…

Flexible automation of hygienic processes
Added: 25 Jul 2012
?In the food and beverage sector Analysing each individual part of a plant or installation will sho…

Recover heat from compressors
Added: 25 Jul 2012
Nearly all of the energy that is used to power an air compressor gets converted to heat, so that a …

The high cost of air
Added: 25 Jul 2012
?Not many process operations really understand or appreciate how much it costs to operate a compres…

Collaboration to produce butadiene from biomass
Added: 24 Jul 2012
Versalis, Eni’s chemicals subsidiary in the production of elastomers, together with Genomatica and …

Antonov flies compressor units to Kazakhstan
Added: 24 Jul 2012
Hemel Hempstead, UK - Atlas Copco Compressors has delivered a £6-million package comprising instrum…

Bridging the divide
Added: 23 Jul 2012
The UK process industries need to resolve long-standing differences between academics and businesse…

Air-tight energy saving at materials company Marshalls
Added: 20 Jul 2012
London – Compressed air is used in almost all industrial businesses, and uses more than 10% of elec…

Oil-free units to save Merck Euro60k a year
Added: 20 Jul 2012
Gernsheim, Germany – Merck KGaA, a paint manufacturer based in Gernsheim, is set to save Euro60,000…

Thermal imaging for hazardous environments
Added: 19 Jul 2012
?Thermal imaging offers clear advantages in ATEX-rated and other hazardous environments, but the la…

Compressors need care and caution
Added: 19 Jul 2012
Frankfurt, Germany – ?Lack of awareness about the cost of generating compressed air and the amount …

2,000 actuators for RWE coal plant
Added: 19 Jul 2012
Altdorf, Germany – SIPOS Aktorik has received confirmation of an order for the commissioning and DC…