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Almost half of businesses want the CRC tax/scheme binned
Added: 1 Apr 2011
London – On the first anniversary of its implementation – perhaps tellingly 1 April – UK businesses…
UK Budget: Oil & gas showdown for UK chancellor
Added: 31 Mar 2011
London – Industry group Oil & Gas UK is to meet UK chancellor George Osborne in a bid to limit the …
UK slips down global 'green' projects league
Added: 31 Mar 2011
Philadelphia – UK-based investment in ’green’ energy projects slumped to $3.3 billion (around £2 bi…
Power from small amounts of waste process gas
Added: 31 Mar 2011
Amberg, Germany – Generating energy from process gasses that currently escape into the atmosphere i…
BP Oil awards storage terminals contract to AMEC
Added: 31 Mar 2011
London – BP Oil UK Ltd has appointed AMEC to carry out the engineering, procurement and constructio…
Lonza to expand UK manufacturing site
Added: 29 Mar 2011
Basel, Switzerland – Swiss group Lonza is to invest £16 million to further develop the flexibility …
Water infrastructure: Better 'snapshot' technologies needed
Added: 29 Mar 2011
Boston, Massachusetts – The market for technologies that help inspect and repair the world’s aging …
Stuxnet spurs ISA into action
Added: 29 Mar 2011
Research Triangle Park, North Carolina – The ISA (International Society of Automation) has set up a…
Foster Wheeler for Russian oil refinery
Added: 28 Mar 2011
Reading, UK – Foster Wheeler has been awarded a contract by JSC Novo-Ufimsky Refinery, part of Russ…
Yokogawa joins Profibus group
Added: 23 Mar 2011
Runcorn, UK – Yokogawa Electric Corp. has joined the PROFIBUS Nutzerorganisation eV (PNO), an inter…
Watson-Marlow sales up 23%
Added: 23 Mar 2011
Falmouth, UK – Watson-Marlow Pumps Group has reported a 38% rise in its operating profit to £30.8 m…
Polymers from CO2
Added: 22 Mar 2011
Bayer has started up a pilot plant at its Chempark Leverkusen site to turn CO2 emissions into feeds…
Thermal transfer: Technologies to watch
Added: 22 Mar 2011
Heat Transfer Systems is introducing its HTfluidfit rig to customer sites following field trials. D…
Elite role for Centre for Process Innovation
Added: 21 Mar 2011
London – The Centre for Process Innovation (CPI) is to be part of a new UK “elite technology innova…
Saudi Aramco taps Samsung for major gas projects
Added: 21 Mar 2011
Dhahran – Saudi Aramco has selected Samsung Engineering Co. Ltd. to perform the EPC work for all fo…
Uhde building 'first ever' skid-mounted chlor-alkali plant
Added: 18 Mar 2011
Leuna, Germany – Uhde GmbH has started construction of what, it believes, will be the world’s first…
Shell to spend $100bn over next four years
Added: 16 Mar 2011
London – Buoyed by strong demand fundamentals in world energy markets, Shell is planning to deliver…
RWE pulls plug on German nuclear plant
Added: 15 Mar 2011
Essen, Germany – RWE is shutting down its Biblis Block A nuclear power unit in Germany to carry out…
Wireless market growing 18%
Added: 15 Mar 2011
Wellingborough, UK – World shipments of industrial products that are wireless-enabled are growing 1…
Carbon pricing policy could 'floor' industry
Added: 15 Mar 2011
The UK government has been warned that its ’Floor Price’ policy for carbon - intended to accelerate…
