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Pilot plant produces biogas from food waste
Added: 20 Feb 2012
Stuttgart, Germany – Researchers from the Fraunhofer Institute for Interfacial Engineering and Biot…
Shell-eating GM fungus offers low-cost process route to anti-viral drugs
Added: 17 Feb 2012
Vienna – Recent incidents, such as the SARS and Swine flu epidemics, have highlighted the need for …
SAICA starts new recycled paper mill in Manchester
Added: 17 Feb 2012
Manchester, UK – SAICA’s new recycled paper mill in Partington has produced its first paper - ahead…
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 …
Aramco, Dow tap Foster Wheeler for Saudi propylene oxide project
Added: 13 Feb 2012
Zug, Switzerland - Saudi Aramco and Dow Europe have awarded Foster Wheeler an engineering, procurem…
UK fund targets carbon abatement technologies
Added: 10 Feb 2012
London – The UK government is to provide grant funding totalling nearly £3 million to four major co…
Bite-size anaerobic digestion for SMEs
Added: 10 Feb 2012
London – While anaerobic digestion (AD) offers a way of reducing carbon emission, providing energy …
Bayer CO2-to-plastics project among best ideas for the future
Added: 6 Feb 2012
Leverkusen, Germany – A Bayer project for using the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide as a component fo…
Measurement technology can raise capacity of wastewater plants
Added: 6 Feb 2012
Helsinki – Metso has developed an on-line measurement technology, which it claims, can enable munic…
Cargo of oil to keep Petroplus refinery running
Added: 3 Feb 2012
London – Administrators for Petroplus Refining & Marketing Ltd (PRML) have acquired a cargo of oil …
Yorkshire Water starts work on £30m 'poo-power' scheme
Added: 3 Feb 2012
Bradford, UK – Yorkshire Water has started work on a £30-million project to install the UK’s first …
Oil-condition sensors can save miners money
Added: 2 Feb 2012
London – Unexpected equipment failure and unplanned down-time significantly impacts on operational …
Sartorius upbeat over 2011 results, restructure
Added: 2 Feb 2012
Goettingen, Germany – Laboratory and process equipment group Sartorius has reported growth in sales…
Foster Wheeler for UK carbon capture project
Added: 31 Jan 2012
Zug, Switzerland – Foster Wheeler has been awarded a project management consultancy (PMC) contract …
System integrators in demand in India
Added: 25 Jan 2012
London – Manufacturing companies in India are increasingly turning to system integrators to impleme…
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…
EU to triple banned-chemicals list
Added: 24 Jan 2012
London – Manufacturers and distributors across a broad range of industries which place products on …
Microwave flow chemistry to "radically improve" drug development
Added: 18 Jan 2012
Cambridge, UK – Uniqsis and WaveCraft have agreed to jointly develop a new range of microwave-based…
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 …
