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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…
Lubricant saves energy at German plastics plant
Added: 24 Feb 2012
Brussels – Ostendorf, one of Germany’s largest producers of plastics pipes and shaped products, has…
Data management key to oil & gas safety (Comment added)
Added: 21 Feb 2012
Aberdeen, UK – In the event of an offshore gas leak, or similar disaster, where internal emergency …
Ensus still hopeful of reopening Wilton biofuels plant
Added: 14 Feb 2012
London – Ensus has dismissed reports that it is about to permanently close its biofuels plant at Wi…
Foster Wheeler for UK carbon capture project
Added: 31 Jan 2012
Zug, Switzerland – Foster Wheeler has been awarded a project management consultancy (PMC) contract …
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…
BOC joins Alstom, Drax on flagship CCS project
Added: 24 Jan 2012
London – Industrial gases provider BOC is joining Alstom and Drax as a co-developer on the 426 MW o…
Petroplus files for backruptcy
Added: 24 Jan 2012
Zug, Switzerland – Europe’s largest independent oil refiner Petroplus Holdings AG is to file for in…
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 …
Cloud could help Anglian Water beat metal theft
Added: 19 Jan 2012
London – Metal theft is costing the UK economy more than £770 million every year as thieves target …
Thames Water advances secure remote monitoring and control of critical assets
Added: 11 Jan 2012
London – Thames Water is installing industrial-grade Ethernet routers – which provide secure, ADSL …
"It looks all right to me"
Added: 11 Jan 2012
London – Skills shortages, it seems, are seriously impacting the quality of products and services a…
Shale holds much promise for equipment makers
Added: 1 Jan 2012
The continuing expansion of shale gas production in the US and its likely spread to other locations…
Factories of the future fuel debate
Added: 1 Jan 2012
There are five main trends shaping the factory of the future - cyber security, mobile and wireless …
BP taps Foster Wheeler to debottleneck Scottish terminal
Added: 22 Dec 2011
Reading, UK – BP Exploration Operating Co. Ltd has awarded Foster Wheeler an engineering, procureme…
Metal cutting fluids put F1 team in pole position
Added: 29 Nov 2011
Hannover, Germany – ExxonMobil’s recently introduced range of Mobilcut water soluble metalworking f…
Newly Weds Foods opts for Mainsaver CMMS
Added: 29 Nov 2011
Corby, UK – Newly Weds Foods has selected Mainsaver CMMS (computerised maintenance management softw…
Hanson Cement prevents emissions rules halting UK plant
Added: 23 Nov 2011
Clitheroe, UK – Hanson Cement has resolved an inherent design fault on the bearing assembly of a la…
New lighting saves Welsh Water £70k/year
Added: 11 Nov 2011
Cardiff, UK – Welsh Water has reduced its electricity bills by £70,000/year as a result of a progra…
