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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…

DuPont wins $920m aramid secrets lawsuit against Kolon Industries
Added: 15 Sep 2011
Wilmington, Delaware — DuPont has won a civil lawsuit for $919.9 million in the US against Kolon In…

Ensus sits out biofuel woes
Added: 13 Sep 2011
Competition for US imports and continuing uncertainty over regulatory support mechanisms have promp…

Fiddlers Ferry contractor PJD earns international safety recognition
Added: 13 Sep 2011
Castle Donington, UK – UK mechanical engineering contractors PJD Group has been shortlisted as one …

British Gas, Bio Group in waste-to-gas project
Added: 13 Sep 2011
London — British Gas and Bio Group are to jointly establish a facility to convert commercial food w…

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…

Oxford Catalysts earns US technology award
Added: 13 Sep 2011
Oxford, UK — Microchannel technology developed by the Oxford Catalysts Group was named as the winne…

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…

INEOS ramps up technology licensing in China
Added: 9 Sep 2011
London – INEOS Technologies has licensed its Innovene PP process for the manufacture of polypropyle…

United Utilities plant turning human waste into usable energy
Added: 7 Sep 2011
Blackburn, UK – United Utilities is converting a by-product of wastewater treatment at the giant Bl…

BP inks £700m North Sea development
Added: 6 Sep 2011
London – BP is to invest up to £700 million to progress a project to develop the Kinnoull reservoir…

Sludge treatment 'first' in Scotland
Added: 6 Sep 2011
Hamilton, UK – The first Scottish installation of Zickert sludge treatment technology from Hydro In…

New UK refinery?
Added: 1 Sep 2011
GE Oil & Gas is planning to build a new oil refinery on Teesside in the north east of England, acco…

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…

Renewable ethanol for fuel additives, rubber and solvents
Added: 3 Aug 2011
Richland, Washington – US researchers claim to have developed catalysts that could replace chemical…

BASF moves polyacrylamide production to UK plant
Added: 1 Aug 2011
Ludwigshafen, Germany – BASF is to consolidate the production of polyacrylamide (PAM) beads into it…

Bayer advances energy-saving chlorine production technology
Added: 29 Jul 2011
Leverkusen, Germany – Bayer MaterialScience has started up a 20ktpa demonstration plant for the pro…

RWE power plants near startup
Added: 29 Jul 2011
Essen, Germany – RWE has announced that two new Essent power plants that are currently under constr…