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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…

Drax axes 'new biomass' plans
Added: 8 Mar 2012
London – ?Drax Group PLC has scrapped plans to build a dedicated 300MW biomass plant at its 4,000MW…

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…

Norwegian researchers develop powerful radiation sensor
Added: 2 Mar 2012
Oslo, Norway- Scientists at the Norwegian Micro and Nano Laboratory have created one of the most ad…

Laser beams help detect chemicals over long distances
Added: 28 Feb 2012
Researchers at the Vienna University of Technology have developed a method of detecting chemicals w…

South America contracts for Metso
Added: 22 Feb 2012
Helsinki – Metso is to deliver automation technology to two major infrastructure projects currently…

Retrofit increases valve efficiency at Dutch water treatment plant
Added: 16 Feb 2012
Amsterdam – Waternet has installed Rotork modulating electric valve actuators as part of an efficie…

Emerson selected as MAC for BP project in the Caspian Sea
Added: 14 Feb 2012
London – The BP-operated Azerbaijan International Operating Co. (AIOC) has awarded Emerson Process …

Control rooms - do we still need them?
Added: 13 Feb 2012
Current advances in the field of process control are likely to spell the end for traditional contro…

Heinz generates energy savings at Irish plant
Added: 10 Feb 2012
Dundalk, Republic of Ireland – The first steam generators to be used with the HJ Heinz Group have b…

Automation settles microbrewery nerves
Added: 6 Feb 2012
Stroud Brewery, an organic craft microbrewery based in Gloucestershire, has moved from making beer …

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…

System integrators in demand in India
Added: 25 Jan 2012
London – Manufacturing companies in India are increasingly turning to system integrators to impleme…

GAMBICA details 'Automated Britain' event
Added: 24 Jan 2012
London – GAMBICA and Intellect have issued more detail about their jointly organised conference eve…

Yokogawa for Arrow LNG project
Added: 23 Jan 2012
Tokyo – Yokogawa Electric Corp.. has been awarded a contract by CJV – a JV between Chiyoda Corp. as…

UK fracking company adds leak monitoring equipment
Added: 20 Jan 2012
Cambridge, UK – Cuadrilla Resources of Lichfield, UK, recently announced the presence of significan…

Virtual reality for UK nuclear reactor group
Added: 20 Jan 2012
Sheffield, UK – Virtalis has designed and installed two virtual reality (VR) systems for the new Nu…

Petrobras approves "world's first" modular small scale GTL facility
Added: 20 Jan 2012
London – Petrobras has qualified and approved CompactGTL’s modular gas-to-liquid (GTL) technology f…

Statoil targets four oil & gas production technologies
Added: 18 Jan 2012
Oslo – Statoil has identified four technologies as critical to its strategy to increase production …

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 …