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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…

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…

Sinopec orders Burckhardt compressors
Added: 18 May 2011
Winterthur, Switzerland - Sinopec Wuhan Co. has awarded Burckhardt Compression two orders to delive…

Metso, Fortum make headway with oxyfuel combustion
Added: 16 May 2011
Tampere, Finland – Metso Corp. and Fortum claim to have made significant progress in a joint R&D pr…

Bedford STW cuts pump maintenance by 'around 90%'
Added: 28 Apr 2011
Bedford, UK – Bedford sewage treatment works (STW) was experiencing recurrent ragging problems with…

Alfa Laval buoyed by oil & gas, process
Added: 27 Apr 2011
Stockholm – Higher demand from the oil & gas and process sectors helped Alfa Laval to a 27% order-i…

Beanz meanz 6% energy saving
Added: 14 Apr 2011
Wigan, UK – Heinz is saving 6% of its average steam load per year at its baked bean factory in Wiga…

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

Dealing with an odour problem
Added: 30 Mar 2011
Ensus is continuing to battle an odour problem that has been affecting people living near its bioet…

Ringwood Brewery adds new steam equipment
Added: 28 Mar 2011
Ringwood, UK – Ringwood Brewery has installed steam equipment from TLV Euro Engineering in a new bo…

Watson-Marlow sales up 23%
Added: 23 Mar 2011
Falmouth, UK – Watson-Marlow Pumps Group has reported a 38% rise in its operating profit to £30.8 m…

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

Valve controls keep variables on a leash
Added: 22 Mar 2011
INEOS Chlor has reduced process variability by 5% at its Runcorn chlor-alkali and chlorine derivati…

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

Thermal transfer: Technologies to watch
Added: 22 Mar 2011
Heat Transfer Systems is introducing its HTfluidfit rig to customer sites following field trials. D…

Cooler cheese
Added: 15 Mar 2011
Cheshire-based cheesemaker Joseph Heler Cheese has installed two new custom-designed cooling towers…

Ahead of steam?
Added: 15 Mar 2011
Most engineers seem to think that steam is the only option for heating industrial processes: it is …

UK secures well-capping device
Added: 15 Mar 2011
Aberdeen, UK - UK offshore oil and gas industry group Oil & Gas UK has announced the start of manu…

UK officials seize counterfeit SKF bearings
Added: 14 Mar 2011
London – Trading Standards officers have seized around one tonne of counterfeit SKF bearings in a 9…

UK process plant spend to increase 14% to 2015
Added: 10 Mar 2011
Manchester, UK – Overall, process plant expenditure is set to increase by 14% in real terms between…