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Greenlight for Canadian CCS project
Added: 4 May 2011
Saskatchewan, Canada – The Government of Saskatchewan has approved construction of the Boundary Dam…

British Bakels adds robotic line
Added: 4 May 2011
Bicester, UK – Chronos BTH is installing a robot palletising system at the bakery ingredients suppl…

Contracts & Projects Tracker: April 2011
Added: 3 May 2011
INEOS Oxide is considering plans to invest in new ethylene oxide (EO) – at least 500ktpa – and EO d…

Tax hike will clobber UK oil & gas investment, production
Added: 3 May 2011
Aberdeen, UK - UK tax hikes announced in Budget 2011 will cause substantial long-term reductions in…

Far East welders 'to nab' Doosan power plant jobs
Added: 3 May 2011
London – DoosanBabcock plans to recruit over 100 welders from the Far East to work on power plant p…

Taim Weser kit for Valencia waste processing plant
Added: 3 May 2011
Zaragoza, Spain – Spanish group Taim Weser is to supply the equipment required for the modernisatio…

Imperial spinout's 'check and protect' coating for gas turbines
Added: 1 May 2011
London – Southside Thermal Sciences (STS), a spin-out from Imperial College London, has developed a…

Materials costs bug Unilever boss
Added: 28 Apr 2011
London – Rising raw materials costs are worrying Unilever CEO Paul Polman, despite him delivering a…

ABB to profit from commodity price hikes
Added: 28 Apr 2011
Zurich, Switzerland, – ABB has achieved a double-digit rise in orders, revenues and earnings for Q1…

Finnish power company adds Metso energy management system
Added: 28 Apr 2011
London – Metso is to supply an energy management system to Pori Energia in Pori, Finland. It will b…

Siemens boss: UK manufacturers losing out to Germany
Added: 28 Apr 2011
London – The latest CBI manufacturing survey and manufacturing production statistics suggests that …

Alfa Laval buoyed by oil & gas, process
Added: 27 Apr 2011
Stockholm – Higher demand from the oil & gas and process sectors helped Alfa Laval to a 27% order-i…

Shale gas fuels Dow expansion plans
Added: 27 Apr 2011
Midland, Michigan - Dow Chemical Co. plans to increase its ethylene and propylene production and to…

Metso to convert Polish coal-fired plant to biomass
Added: 26 Apr 2011
London – Metso has received a Euro20m order to convert a coal-fired CFB boiler to a biomass-fired b…

Helius Energy awards Scottish biomass CHP contracts
Added: 19 Apr 2011
?London – Helius CoRDe Ltd – a JV between Helius Energy plc, Rabo Project Equity BV and The Combina…

Siemens to start remote maintenance services
Added: 15 Apr 2011
Manchester, UK – Siemens Industry Automation & Drive Technologies is adding remote services to its …

Statoil taps Foster Wheeler for Arctic LNG work
Added: 14 Apr 2011
Reading, UK – Statoil Petroleum AS has awarded Foster Wheeler a pre-FEED contract for the Snøhvit F…

Nexans nets major cable contract for Brazil petrochemical complex
Added: 14 Apr 2011
Paris – Nexans has won a ’multi-million Euros’ turnkey contract at the new COMPERJ petrochemical co…

ABB to automate Scottish paper mill
Added: 14 Apr 2011
Aberdeen, UK – Arjowiggins Creative Papers has awarded ABB a contract to provide new automation tec…

Fluor links with predictive maintenance firm Azima DLI
Added: 14 Apr 2011
Irving, Texas - Fluor Corp is to team with Azima DLI of based in Woburn, Massachusetts-based suppli…