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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…

Bechtel, Linde target N American cracker projects

Added: 28 Jul 2011

San Francisco – Bechtel Corp. and Linde AG are to work together to expand and build ethylene cracke…

Think tank: Mandatory reporting should replace costly CRC scheme

Added: 28 Jul 2011

London – The UK government should scrap the CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme, and instead oblige busine…

GSK to squeeze supply chain costs

Added: 27 Jul 2011

London – GlaxoSmithKline is targeting improvements in its supply chain in the next stage of its str…

Dow, Saudi Aramco to build major chemicals complex

Added: 25 Jul 2011

Midland, Michigan – Dow Chemical Co. and Saudi Aramco are establishing a joint venture to build and…

Industry concerns mount over UK 'triple whammy'

Added: 22 Jul 2011

A series of government initiatives on taxation and carbon reduction is causing significant concern …

Clearfleau, UTS target UK renewable energy market

Added: 21 Jul 2011

Cambridge, UK – Renewable energy technology companies UK-based Clearfleau and UTS Biogastechnik Gmb…

Climate 'unilateralism' leaves lords leaping about cost to UK

Added: 18 Jul 2011

No other country would inflict such damage on its economy, leading figures warn