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ABB nets service contract at Sappi paper mill
Added: 27 Mar 2012
London – Sapppi has awarded ABB a five-year ‘maintenance improvement agreement’ to manage and impro…

Stop-start water cycle blocks technology flow
Added: 8 Mar 2012

London – ?After a slow start to the current Asset Management Plan - AMP5 (2010-15) - suppliers have…

EU proposals ‘threaten’ North?Sea safety
Added: 8 Mar 2012

London – ?European Commission proposals for offshore safety regulation are likely to damage, rather…

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…