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SABIC adds ATEX cameras at Teesside site
Added: 21 May 2012
Middlesbrough, UK — SABIC UK Petrochemicals Ltd has installed ATEX explosion proof digital cameras …

Dutch bioprocess pilot facility opens for research
Added: 18 May 2012
CSM, Royal DSM and Delft University are participating in a joint venture for bioprocess research

Rio Tinto teams up with Imperial College
Added: 18 May 2012
Rio Tinto and Imperial have announced scholarships to support the training of engineers

Molson Coors gears up at Burton-upon-Trent plant
Added: 18 May 2012
Burton-upon-Trent, UK - HES Tractec has supplied 20 Comer gearboxes to Molson Coors, the UK’s bigge…

Step change for UK polymer recycling
Added: 17 May 2012
London - The UK plastics industry is making some significant strides towards meeting an ambitious g…

Oxford Catalysts technology for Russian GTL plant
Added: 17 May 2012
Abingdon, UK – Microchannel Fischer-Tropsch (FT) reactor technology developed by the Oxford Catalys…

UK 'game' aids Saudi Arabia's largest steel maker
Added: 17 May 2012
Warrington, UK – Saudi Arabia’s largest steel manufacturer, Hadeed, is rolling out an intensive wor…

New B. Braun plant to feature advanced process technologies
Added: 17 May 2012
Melsungen, Germany – Pharmaceutical and medicals supplier B. Braun Melsungen AG’s new Euro164-milli…

UK team advances measurement of gas bubbles in pipelines.
Added: 17 May 2012
Southampton, UK – Researchers at the University of Southampton has devised a new method to more acc…

KIRK progresses Tullis Russell biomass plant
Added: 17 May 2012
Glenrothes, UK – KIRK Environmental has announced that construction is well underway on its part of…

Robots protect jobs at Premier Foods
Added: 14 May 2012
London – That automation can protect, rather than destroy, jobs by improving the productivity, comp…

KSB pumps for new Dutch power station
Added: 14 May 2012
Frankenthal, Germany – This September KSB AG is supplying boiler feed pumps for the newly built A a…

Industry concern over insolvency of aluminium major
Added: 14 May 2012
Berlin – The insolvency proceedings initiated by Voerde Aluminium GmbH – the 3rd largest aluminium …

Technologies to watch: Fluids Handling
Added: 14 May 2012
KSB is starting production of its high-efficiency SuPremE electric motor series (pictured) at its f…

Crumbs problem solved at last
Added: 14 May 2012
London – A process that has reportedly defied automation for decades has been resolved by systems i…
Sales up 20% at Severn Trent Services
Added: 11 May 2012
Barcelona, Spain - Severn Trent Services has increased sales by over 20% worldwide, in the past yea…

Drax set to complete £100m turbine upgrade
Added: 10 May 2012
Drax, UK - Drax Power Station is a month away from completing the largest steam turbine modernisati…

UK oil & gas services sector doing well
Added: 10 May 2012
Aberdeen, UK - Gross revenues generated by the UK oil & gas well services sector grew by 28% to £1.…

Eni: Euro2bn and new name for chemicals business
Added: 10 May 2012
Rome – Eni has renamed its Polimeri Europa division Versalis, as part of a major new investment str…

Manchester students net IChemE sustainability prize
Added: 10 May 2012
Manchester, UK – A project to turn corn waste into succinic acid has earned an international sustai…