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Britvic Recall2

Britvic recall a lesson to UK manufacturers

Added: 16 Jul 2012

Britvic Soft Drinks has recalled all Robinsons Fruit Shoot and Fruit Shoot Hydro packs, featuring t…

BP Texas refinery

Operating procedure key to process safety

Added: 16 Jul 2012

Article based on Honeywell white paper. Contributors: Subhankar Dey - Senior Marketing Specialist, …

Extinguishing fire using sound

Added: 16 Jul 2012

DARPA has demonstrated techniques to extinguish small flames using electric and acoustic suppression

BP Texas refinery

BP settles Texas City refinery citations

Added: 13 Jul 2012

London – BP Products North America Inc. has reached an agreement with the US Occupational Safety an…

Fukushima

Fukushima disaster "made in Japan"

Added: 9 Jul 2012

Tokyo – The disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant was “man-made” and not the unfore…

Vibration monitoring could deliver automatic improvements

Added: 2 Jul 2012

The potential of automation to enhance productivity, quality and economy in process industries depe…

Klinger award win

Klinger UK nets Energy Industry Award

Added: 2 Jul 2012

Leeds, UK – Klinger UK, a developer, manufacturer and distributor of sealing products for the globa…

Process blast

HSE to proceed with controversial cost recovery scheme

Added: 29 Jun 2012

London – The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is to proceed with its controversial Fee for Interve…

BP selects Emerson as preferred N Sea automation supplier

Added: 27 Jun 2012

London – BP Exploration has selected Emerson Process Management as its preferred automation contrac…

Cyber care in the community

Added: 26 Jun 2012

Cyber attacks on UK industrial companies, including those targeting control and automation systems,…

tank cleaning flow

Chemical tank cleaning: Small things make a big difference

Added: 24 Jun 2012

Technical article by Ivan Zytynski, marketing director of BETE Ltd:

The cleaning of tanks and vessel…

Babcock Dungeness outage

Babcock completes Dungeness overhaul

Added: 18 Jun 2012

London - Babcock has completed an overhaul of the reactor gas circulators as part of a major outage…

Imtech to acquire Capula

Added: 18 Jun 2012

Gouda, The Netherlands - Royal Imtech NV is to acquire Capula in a move intended to extend its posi…

Emerson Barking

Wireless helps Barking Power listen out for problems

Added: 14 Jun 2012

London - Barking Power Ltd operated by Thames Power Services, has installed Emerson Process Managem…

Legionelle scare

HSE serves 'legionella' notices on two process companies

Added: 13 Jun 2012

Edinburgh, UK – The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has served two process companies, North Briti…

Shell Pearl GTL

Shell's 'uneasy' approach to process safety

Added: 12 Jun 2012

With 15 years’ experience in managing the operation of top-tier COMAH sites, Dave Topliffe, manufac…

Twitter

Can Twitter improve safety and productivity?

Added: 12 Jun 2012

Many major accidents in the process industries could be avoided if companies were more switched on …

Thorp

Sellafield reprocessing site to close in six years

Added: 8 Jun 2012

It has been confirmed that THORP operations in Cumbria are likely to cease in 2018

LyondellBasell

LyondellBasell nets award for energy-saving flare

Added: 1 Jun 2012

Houston, Texas –- LyondellBasell’s efforts to reduce energy consumption at its Houston refinery hav…

Zeolite

New materials to cut costs for CO2 capture

Added: 31 May 2012

Study discovers zeolite minerals that are one-third more efficient for carbon capture