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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…

Different take on inventory management
Added: 1 Nov 2011
Brazilian energy company Petrobras has recently signed a service contract with Metso covering the s…

Why energy-saving plans are failing to go the distance
Added: 1 Nov 2011

Depending on the relative cost of enery at the time, energy-efficiency programmes and capital inves…

Creaming off the cost
Added: 1 Nov 2011
One of the UK’s ten largest food companies, Dairy Crest has started up two biomass boilers at its D…

Environmental monitoring: Joined up power plants
Added: 1 Nov 2011
The appetite for the development of new waste-to-energy and biomass incineration plants is increasi…

Apps ease maintenance woes
Added: 1 Nov 2011

While CMMS (computerised maintenance management system) software helps maintenance managers to trac…

New water quality monitoring service
Added: 1 Nov 2011
The Environment Agency (EA) has created a new agency, called the National Water Quality Instrumenta…

HSE inspectors to become industry 'traffic wardens'?
Added: 21 Oct 2011
London — The Health & Safety Executive (HSE) is proposing to charge industry for any ‘material brea…

Smartphone app to ease maintenance technicians’ woes
Added: 10 Oct 2011
Paris — CMMS (computerised maintenance management system) software offers a valuable tool for maint…

Woodhouse asset management deal with Costa Rican power company
Added: 4 Oct 2011
London — ICE, the major electrical utility company of Costa Rica, has awarded a three-year contract…

Turnarounds: All change in petrochemicals sector
Added: 1 Oct 2011
London — The west European petrochemical Industry is reckoned to spend around €3 billion a year on …

BASF demolition job for RVA
Added: 30 Sep 2011
Ipswich, UK — BASF has started dismantling its Kaipiainen polymer production facilities in Finland.…

Lubricant saves $1.4m at Chinese steel mill
Added: 23 Sep 2011
London — Guangdong Shaogang Songshan Inc., a Chinese manufacturer of pig iron, steel and steel prod…

NSK helps Italian group to nibble costs
Added: 22 Sep 2011
London — An Italian snack food company is achieving annual savings of Euro192,600 on production and…

Take a tablet, and some paper
Added: 16 Sep 2011
London — At the recent official opening of Bentley Systems’ new London office, CEO Greg Bentley gav…