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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…

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…

Measurement technology can raise capacity of wastewater plants
Added: 6 Feb 2012
Helsinki – Metso has developed an on-line measurement technology, which it claims, can enable munic…

Maintenance fear factor
Added: 6 Feb 2012
The importance of effective sourcing and management of spare parts is often ignored at many process…

Henry Ford would have advised using VSDs
Added: 4 Feb 2012
Comment piece from Steve Brambley, deputy director, GAMBICA: – the UK Association for Instrumentati…

North West Fund helps valve repair firm expand
Added: 3 Feb 2012
London – Faced with the need to ramp up its operations to satisfy steadily increasing demand, Contr…

Foster Wheeler for UK carbon capture project
Added: 31 Jan 2012
Zug, Switzerland – Foster Wheeler has been awarded a project management consultancy (PMC) contract …

Essen to pioneer new superconductor link for electricity transmission
Added: 30 Jan 2012
Essen, Germany – The city of Essen will be the pioneer for a new chapter of inner-city electricity …

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…

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…

Corrugated-tube heat exchangers cut costs at dairy AD plant
Added: 26 Jan 2012
Dorset, UK – Renewable energy company Clearfleau has installed heat exchangers from HRS Heat Exchan…

3D software helps Aberdeen start-up
Added: 26 Jan 2012
Aberdeen, UK – When Aberdeen-based Liberty Drilling Equipment (LDE) was founded in October 2010, it…

GAMBICA details 'Automated Britain' event
Added: 24 Jan 2012
London – GAMBICA and Intellect have issued more detail about their jointly organised conference eve…

US utilities order Westinghouse nuclear shutdown seal
Added: 24 Jan 2012
London – In the US, Westinghouse Electric Co. has installed its reactor coolant pump (RCP) passive …

UK fracking company adds leak monitoring equipment
Added: 20 Jan 2012
Cambridge, UK – Cuadrilla Resources of Lichfield, UK, recently announced the presence of significan…

Virtual reality for UK nuclear reactor group
Added: 20 Jan 2012
Sheffield, UK – Virtalis has designed and installed two virtual reality (VR) systems for the new Nu…

Petrobras approves "world's first" modular small scale GTL facility
Added: 20 Jan 2012
London – Petrobras has qualified and approved CompactGTL’s modular gas-to-liquid (GTL) technology f…

German biogas plant pumps up the volume
Added: 19 Jan 2012
Kronprinzenkoog, Germany – Biogas producer Biogas Kruse has increased its biomethane generation by…

Severn Trent Water mulls switch to peristaltic pumps
Added: 18 Jan 2012
London – Severn Trent Water is considering expanding its use of peristaltic pumping following the r…

Microwave flow chemistry to "radically improve" drug development
Added: 18 Jan 2012
Cambridge, UK – Uniqsis and WaveCraft have agreed to jointly develop a new range of microwave-based…