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Virtual training to advance clean coalpower in US

Added: 3 Nov 2009

Invensys' EYESim system wilI be employed in a new IGCC training centre as part of a DOE initiative …

BP contests record US fines over continuing safety failures

Added: 2 Nov 2009

US Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has issued $87,430,000 in proposed penaltie…

Carbon Trust initiative targets process industries

Added: 2 Nov 2009

Process companies Britvic, Highland Spring and Tarmac are among the first companies to work with th…

Tag vision system eliminates manual sorting

Added: 2 Nov 2009

Reducing the need for manual sorting is a big challenges for automation systems, and the developmen…

Funding: Now you see it, now you don't

Added: 2 Nov 2009

It is cynically counter-productive that, in times when bankers take all the criticism, official age…

Fundamental physics takes process to the limit

Added: 2 Nov 2009

Bogdan Dobraszczyk, technical specialist at RSSL explains the importance of understanding of the ph…

Self-taught engineer redefines bioreactor control

Added: 2 Nov 2009

Power and intelligence available from today’s PLCs adapted by control engineer to manage the growth…

Paper recycling plant cuts analysis times by 75%

Added: 2 Nov 2009

Smurfit Kappa SSK, one of Europe’s largest recycled packaging companies, also optimises the efficie…

MCerts device helps Premier Foods cut effluent costs.

Added: 29 Oct 2009

Operation in Newport has substantially reduced effluent charges following an investment in MCerts-c…

Benchmarking for Energy & Efficiency Savings in the Water Industry

Added: 26 Oct 2009

The water companies in England & Wales have been privatised for some time, they operate under licen…

United Utilities adds PAC dosing system

Added: 22 Oct 2009

Powdered activated carbon dosing system at treatment works near Rochdale used to neutralise a natur…

Training is coming home

Added: 22 Oct 2009

Economic downturn has led to a major shift in the way training is delivered, with most process comp…

ASA probes climate scare advert

Added: 21 Oct 2009

Complaints claim ad is upsetting for children as it shows a father reading his daughter a bedtime s…

E.ON selects ABB system for UK gas storage facility

Added: 21 Oct 2009

Facility in Cheshire designed to hold over 160 million cubic metres of gas, and as a potentially fu…

Government has 'no plans' to use CRC to curb other gases

Added: 21 Oct 2009

Government is unlikely to use the Carbon Reduction Commitment to curb other greenhouse gas emission…

Pilkington Glass avoids redundancies with retraining fund

Added: 21 Oct 2009

Dozens of Merseyside jobs have been secured after Learning & Skills Council stepped in with essenti…

Envirowise launches Rethink Waste initiative

Added: 20 Oct 2009

True cost of waste, including waste raw materials, energy and labour, and can be up to 20 times the…

Green light for first carbon capture and storage project

Added: 19 Oct 2009

Powerfuel cleared to construct the world's first large scale integrated gasification combined cycle…

Food suppliers could save £1bn through better data management

Added: 19 Oct 2009


London - UK grocery retailers and suppliers can save £1 billion over the next five years through im…

Skills Academy names its first young ambassador

Added: 19 Oct 2009

Chloe Richards the first of five young ambassadors being recruited to the Academy’s boards in key p…