All Control & Instrumentation

Cloud is only as good as you make it
Added: 4 Oct 2011
London — Businesses expecting automatic improvements to their IT infrastructure by moving to the cl…

Oil & gas sector needs better planning of pressure safety valve testing
Added: 3 Oct 2011
London — Valve engineering and management company Severn Unival is advising oil and gas companies t…

Neste Oil inks automation deal with Metso
Added: 3 Oct 2011
Helsinki — Metso has signed a frame agreement with Neste Oil for automation and safety system repla…

Food and beverage makers gain appetite for systems integration
Added: 29 Sep 2011
Manchester, UK — Food and beverage manufacturers has significantly increased their adoption of inte…

EU efficiency motor rules to boost swappage scheme
Added: 29 Sep 2011
London — ABB’s drives and motors swappage scheme, has taken on new importance with the introduction…

High global demand prompts new Metso valve facility
Added: 28 Sep 2011
Helsinki — Finnish group Metso has opened a new valve production and technology centre in the Helsi…

Hima-Sella upgrades ESD systems at Lucite UK plant
Added: 28 Sep 2011
Teesside, UK – Hima-Sella has commenced work on the upgrade of emergency shutdown (ESD) systems for…

Global pulp & paper makers invest in automation
Added: 26 Sep 2011
Recent major awards for Honeywell, Metso in South America and China

Endress+Hauser changing UK leadership
Added: 23 Sep 2011
Manchester, UK — Endress+Hauser is re-jigging the top management of its Manchester-based operation,…

The future is not in the clouds
Added: 20 Sep 2011
The future is not in the clouds; it’s already here says Stuart Hannah of HMS Industrial Networks, b…

Level control is the 'most gruelling offshore application'
Added: 19 Sep 2011
London — Level control has been identified as by far the most challenging offshore valve applicatio…

A silver bullet for SCADA security?
Added: 16 Sep 2011
Blog posted by Eric Byres on the www.tofinosecurity.com website:
If any security expert claims syste…

Lanemark process heating control for malting expansion
Added: 15 Sep 2011
The control characteristics associated with process gas burner technology from Lanemark Internation…

GKN drives down energy costs
Added: 15 Sep 2011
Telford, UK — GKN is saving £20,000 a year in energy costs from the installation of ABB low voltage…

Industry's "first" condition monitoring iPhone app
Added: 13 Sep 2011
Dewsbury, UK —Parker Filtration, part of Parker Hannifin claims to have released the industry’s fir…

Real-time process optimisation market looking stronger
Added: 13 Sep 2011
Dedham, Massachusetts - Demand for real-time process optimisation and training (RPO) market is to g…

Swedish mill adds new analyser technology
Added: 13 Sep 2011
Mörrum, Sweden – Södra Cell’s Mörrum mill in southern Sweden is currently installing a new Metso Ka…

Invensys control system for Saudi refinery
Added: 16 Aug 2011
London – Saudi Aramco Total Refining & Petrochemical Co. (SATORP) — a JV between Saudi Aramco and T…

US majors target Israeli wastewater-to-electricity technology
Added: 15 Aug 2011
Caesarea, Israel – Energy Technology Ventures – a joint venture between GE, NRG Energy and ConocoPh…

Tata Steel checks oxygen costs at Scunthorpe plant
Added: 10 Aug 2011
Scunthorpe, UK – Tata Steel’s Scunthorpe steel plant produces carbon steel by the basic oxygen meth…