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European counterfeit bearings seized
Added: 22 Mar 2010
London – Police have seized 6,500 counterfeit bearings, imported to Sweden and packaged as SKF prod…
ETI launches £25m carbon capture search
Added: 22 Mar 2010
London – The Energy Technologies Institute (ETI) is seeking organisations or consortia to bid for a…
Process Skills Academy adds composites and biotechnology
Added: 19 Mar 2010
London – The National Skills Academy Process Industries (NSAPI) is to create two new hubs for biote…
Machinery Directive moves could be a waste of money, warns Schneider
Added: 19 Mar 2010
London – With the European Commission’s news to allow EN 954-1 to continue for a further two years,…
Total makeover for loss-making French refinery
Added: 19 Mar 2010
Paris – Total plans to shut down its refining operations in Dunkirk, northern France, which will be…
Renewed CHP drive
Added: 18 Mar 2010
Renewable combined heat and power needs the right investment climate. Patrick Raleigh reports
INEOS project reduces energy bill by £3m
Added: 18 Mar 2010
Philip Masding, process control manager at INEOS Chlor, on how a project to channel hydrogen gas by…
NI Water bosses sacked after procurement probe
Added: 18 Mar 2010
Belfast, Northern Ireland – NI Water (NIW) chairman and three non-executive directors of the compan…
Keeping solids on the move
Added: 18 Mar 2010
Options to keep powders and other solid materials flowing
UK to build Europe's largest carbon capture pilot plant
Added: 18 Mar 2010
London – The UK government is to invest over £6m in a new £20m project that will see the constructi…
IR underused, not understood
Added: 17 Mar 2010
Frank Wilson
“I want to go into every university in the world and give a right roasting to whoever i…
Total launches Shetland offshore development
Added: 17 Mar 2010
London – Total has unveiled plans for its Laggan and Tormore gas fields development in the offshore…
Making sense of heat measurement sensors
Added: 16 Mar 2010
It is important to consider some key parameters before finalising the selection of infrared tempera…
BP wins appeal against $100m fine
Added: 16 Mar 2010
London – BP has successfully appealed a US court’s ruling that it must pay $100 million (£65m) in d…
Shell adds Honeywell to MAC list
Added: 16 Mar 2010
London – Honeywell has followed Emerson and Yokogawa in signing a global agreement to be a Main Aut…
Corus fined £100k over crane accident
Added: 16 Mar 2010
Sheffield, UK – Steelmaker Corus UK Ltd has been fined £100,000 and ordered to pay £9,908.50 costs …
Rotork for strategic LNG project in Chile
Added: 16 Mar 2010
Quintero Bay, Chile – Rotork fluid power valve actuators have been installed throughout a major new…
Swings and roundabouts
Added: 16 Mar 2010
Alistair Mackenzie examines the ’wild and unnecessary’ swings that occur in buyer/supplier relation…
Act now if you R22 survive
Added: 16 Mar 2010
A ban on the use of the virgin HCFC gas as of 1 January 2010, and recycled gas from 2015, has creat…
