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Biofuel

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 …

Pigments

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…

Huntsman site revamp tops IChemE awards

Added: 7 Nov 2011

London – Huntsman Pigments has won the top prize at the IChemE 2011 Awards for a project that revam…

Arcelor Mittal awards major service contract to Metso

Added: 3 Nov 2011

Helsinki – Arcelor Mittal Tubarão, based in Espirito Santo State, Brazil, have signed a Metso servi…

EMR: 'Unremitting' cost increases?

Added: 1 Nov 2011

During a conference at The Energy Event, at the Birmingham NEC, Andrew Buckley, director-general of…