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Power to the people in 2010

Added: 4 Dec 2009


Having visited a good number of UK process sites over the past couple of years, it has often been s…

Huntsman starts up major industrial wireless system

Added: 4 Dec 2009

Houston, Texas – Chemicals major Huntsman Corp. has installed what is claimed to be one of the larg…

KSB equips Dutch-built dredgers

Added: 4 Dec 2009

Frankenthal, Germany - Two dredgers built at a Dutch shipyard will be equipped with specialised pum…

HMI gives paws for thought

Added: 3 Dec 2009

Cologne, Germany – Padded protective gloves are no obstacle at all when operating HMI stations for …

Hertel strengthens order book

Added: 3 Dec 2009


Wilton, UK – Hertel Project Services has announced new customer wins totalling nearly £1 million, i…

ABB nets $26m order to power refinery in Greece

Added: 3 Dec 2009

Zurich, Switzerland - Hellenic Petroleum SA has awarded ABB a $26m order to provide an integrated p…

Flowserve valves for Thorp nuclear reprocessing plant

Added: 2 Dec 2009

London – Flowserve Flow Control has supplied 16 Worcester F911 cartridge valves for a new Medium Ac…

CB&I joint venture nears $1bn LNG contract in Papua New Guinea

Added: 2 Dec 2009

London - Esso Highlands Ltd has approved an EPC contract worth over $1bn with the CB&I Clough joint…

Productivity gaps, strikes threaten UK process engineering projects

Added: 1 Dec 2009

London - Poor productivity and labour relations issues could block the UK engineering construction …

More money for training for engineering construction sector

Added: 1 Dec 2009


London - A £4.5 million increase in Government funding for apprenticeships and trainees in the engi…

Emerson wants to make process technology much easier to use  

Added: 27 Nov 2009

 

The Hague, The Netherlands - Emerson Process Management is seeking to make process control technol…

Japanese company develops acrylic acid-from-biomass process

Added: 26 Nov 2009


Tokyo - Nippon Shokubai Co. Ltd of Tokyo has announced the development of a high-performance cataly…

Simulation excercise finds most companies CRC-unready

Added: 26 Nov 2009

Newcastle, UK -   In advance of the new Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC) legislation, regional dev…

Corus keeps power on

Added: 26 Nov 2009

Scunthorpe, UK - The next three years are likely to be challenging for the Corus plant in Scunthorp…

Services move helps SEW EuroDrive gain contracts

Added: 26 Nov 2009

Normanton, UK - SEW Eurodrive, a supplier of gear units, motors and drive electronics, has gained a…

Bayer process to shrink chlorine production costs and emissions

Added: 26 Nov 2009

Leverkusen, Germany - ?Bayer MaterialScience is commercialising two chlorine production processes, …

Engineering construction workers lift strike threat

Added: 26 Nov 2009

London - The 30,000 engineering construction workforce have voted to accept an amended offer on pay…

OFWAT price regime threatens water industry jobs, warns GMB

Added: 26 Nov 2009


London - Water industry regulator Ofwat’s announcement on the price regime for the next five years …

CC-Link unveils 1Gbps industrial ethernet at the field/device level

Added: 24 Nov 2009

 

Nuremberg, Germany - CC-Link, the open communications protocol for industrial automation, is now a…

Bayer process to shrink chlorine production costs and emissions

Added: 23 Nov 2009

Leverkusen, Germany - Bayer MaterialScience is rolling out two new chlorine production processes, w…