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Alarms should not undermine safety and productivity

Added: 17 Dec 2007

Plant historians can help engineers and operators to cut through the clutter of multiple alarms

Mixers enhance Polyflor flooring

Added: 16 Dec 2007

Process must achieve complete mixing in the shortest possible length of pipe over a wide range of f…

Thames Water launches 25-year plan, joins Carbon Trust scheme

Added: 14 Dec 2007

CEO sees serious challenges ahead. "We must plan to meet the demands of future generations sustaina…

Energy efficiency not crop biofuels, say climate decision makers

Added: 11 Dec 2007

First generation biofuels rank bottom of a list of 18 technologies for reducing carbon emission, an…

Foster Wheeler: Carbon capture the way ahead

Added: 7 Dec 2007

Understanding the technical issues involved in the recovery, transport and storage of large quantit…

Middle East processor tackles scale build up in steam boilers

Added: 7 Dec 2007

System emits randomly-varying electric fields to enhance precipitation of the bicarbonates from sol…

Bringing virtual factories to the table

Added: 6 Dec 2007

Touch Table uses combination of fingers and swiping movements to present a journey through pipes an…

Concern over UK apprenticeships and further education plans

Added: 6 Dec 2007

Move to higher education will leave a rapidly decreasing pool of potential apprentices to fulfil th…

Dow Corning in $50m project to cut emissions

Added: 3 Dec 2007

Project with Veolia and IET is first use of plasma gasification to recycle chlorinated organic liqu…

Tracking down water leaks

Added: 3 Dec 2007

Silicon-based probes that only cost around 5% of the the high-end versions and operate on the same …

Bayer investing Euro1bn on climate measures

Added: 3 Dec 2007

Initiative includes a new control instrument for increasing energy efficiency and reducing CO2 emis…

Pfizer improves control of water systems at Cork plant

Added: 30 Nov 2007

Haden Freeman Group, Nalco improve efficiency and control of its cooling and boiler water systems a…

United Utilities upgrades peristaltics

Added: 30 Nov 2007

Pumps used for the dosing of sodium hypochlorite - a highly corrosive chemical for purifiying waste…

Consultancy and engineering sector buoyant, says ACE

Added: 30 Nov 2007

Strongest performers in 2008 predicted to be other power, nuclear and wind energy and the leisure/e…

Moves to cut health & safety red tape

Added: 29 Nov 2007

Time and money spent on red tape to be addressed by a review of health and safety laws, says busine…

New £23m scheme to support high value manufacturing

Added: 29 Nov 2007

Funding to develop technologies for high value products and address the through-life supportability…

Top safety accreditation for ELGA Process Water

Added: 29 Nov 2007

ELGA Process Water is one of the latest group of successful companies to join a leading edge sche…

New decanter centrifuge enhances Ethanol production

Added: 29 Nov 2007

Drawing on 40 years experience as the leading supplier of decanter centrifuges to the UK distille…

Microfiltration For Medical Applications Ultrafine Filter Maker Sets New Standards

Added: 29 Nov 2007

Precision Micro, the Birmingham based specialist precision component manufacturer, claims to be ‘…

Carlo Gavazzi PR: New compact long range, low power sensor

Added: 29 Nov 2007

Carlo Gavazzi has introduced a new range of photoelectric sensors representing state of the art i…