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Corus to cut 3,500 jobs

Added: 25 Jan 2009

Steel maker cuts are part of a package of strategic measures to improve its competitive position in…

E.ON Kingsnorth captures wireless data

Added: 23 Jan 2009

Power plant is employing wireless technology to monitor and measure treated water usage. The inform…

Dow, Süd-Chemie target syngas breakthrough

Added: 23 Jan 2009

Partners to research alternative routes to produce chemicals to help reduce dependence on tradition…

Ethernet to dominate wireless markets as security concerns ease

Added: 21 Jan 2009

VDC notes clear shift in awareness of the benefits of wireless networking and lower concern about s…

Energy majors pair to play in UK nuclear expansion

Added: 21 Jan 2009

RWE in joint venture with EoN while Scottish and Southern Energy links with Iberdrola to participat…

Lessons from Buncefield

Added: 20 Jan 2009

At 7.00pm on 10 Dec, 2005, a 14-inch pipeline began pumping aviation fuel at a rate of 550m3/hr int…

Solutia goes for gold

Added: 20 Jan 2009

Like many chemicals manufacturing sites, the Solutia UK Limited operation at Newport, Wales is incr…

Integrating process safety systems

Added: 20 Jan 2009

How far should integration be extended to include the emergency shutdown systems, fire and gas syst…

Sonhoe £2bn refinery still on track

Added: 20 Jan 2009

Son“Commercially sensitive due diligence continues behind the scenes and the team behind the plant …

Change at the top at Honeywell, Invensys

Added: 20 Jan 2009

Gilsdorf is new president of Honeywell Process Solutions, IPS boss disappears from group radar

Carat and stick

Added: 20 Jan 2009

As explained by Solutia MD Steve Westhead in our Jan/Feb issue, the National Skills Academy Process…

Dew Point Sensor Calibration Exchange Program from Michell extended to the new Easidew TX I.S.

Added: 20 Jan 2009

Michell Instruments are delighted to announce they have extended their successful Sensor Calibratio…

Skills supremo to host Process Engineering Live conference session

Added: 20 Jan 2009

Cogent CEO and former BP, ICI executive Woolf to highlight how delegates can access £50m fund for …

Explore all the options

Added: 19 Jan 2009

Simple and straightforward they may seem, but weighing and measuring systems are now being used for…

Going with the flow

Added: 19 Jan 2009

 

Total tunes into wireless condition monitoring at French site

Added: 19 Jan 2009

Wireless temperature transmitters provide additional information required to indicate changes in wa…

Quick learner Duncan

Added: 19 Jan 2009

While politicians are now crawling over any UK manufacturing operation willing to open the door to …

Many thousands of engineers needed for integrated green strategy

Added: 18 Jan 2009

ETB: UK must train an extra 170k in solar water and heating, 75k in micro wind energy and 76k in ra…

Bayernoil advances gas leak detection at major refinery

Added: 16 Jan 2009

Biggest refinery in southern Germany integrates FLIR GasFindIR into its leak detection and repair p…

Wireless facing obstacles in factory automation

Added: 16 Jan 2009

IMS survey: Reliability concerns remain biggest obstacle to adoption for machine builders and end u…