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Dust danger in the workplace

Added: 16 Feb 2009

How companies can reduce the risk of dust explosions occurring in the workplace and the current sta…

Union demos target Alstom at UK energy facilities

Added: 16 Feb 2009

Workerd demonstrate outside Staythorpe and Isle of Grain power stations to call on Alstom to give U…

Acas clears employers at the Lindsey oil refinery

Added: 16 Feb 2009

Total, Jacobs Engineering and IREM did not break EU law and acted in accordance with collective agr…

Drives market to grow despite financial gloom

Added: 16 Feb 2009

Global market for low voltage AC & DC motor drives will continue performing well, predicts IMS. The…

Sellafield advances materials handling facilities

Added: 16 Feb 2009

Project included ‘setting to work’ exercise to simulate the actual storage equipment being transpor…

Wind turbines blow cold

Added: 16 Feb 2009

Eight wind turbines in Antarctica are withstanding temperatures of -60°C and winds of more than 90m…

Slurry valves for goldmine

Added: 12 Feb 2009

Tyco designs and supplies pneumatically operated cyclone distributor comprising 18 slurry valves to…

Electronic pressure transmitters on the rise

Added: 11 Feb 2009

Global shipments of electronic pressure transmitters and transducers will increase from $5.6bn in 2…

LyondellBasell to idle plants in UK, France

Added: 11 Feb 2009

Polymer maker moves to temporarily idle LDPE units at Carrington, UK, and Fos-sur-Mer, France, into…

Bearing down on milk plant costs

Added: 10 Feb 2009

Solid lubricant bearings offer cost savings of £9,992 per annum by solving a problem of premature b…

Mono claims pump maintenance breakthrough

Added: 9 Feb 2009

PC pump design means day-long maintenance operation become a 30-minute job. Billed as "the biggest …

Experts to focus on energy, efficiency, skills, asset management at PE Live

Added: 6 Feb 2009

VIP speakers from Bayer, Process Skills Academy, Environment Agency, United Biscuits, Chemicals Nor…

Acas clears employers at Lindsey oil refinery

Added: 5 Feb 2009

Total, Jacobs Engineering and IREM did not break EU law and acted in accordance with collective agr…

More talk, less walk out

Added: 5 Feb 2009

The background to the dispute at the Lindsey oil refinery (see news story) is the global economic d…

Pumping primary sludge under difficult circumstances

Added: 5 Feb 2009

At AWZI sewage plant treatment in The Netherlands, primary sludge is handled with a solid content o…

Why buy your DI equipment?

Added: 5 Feb 2009

If your manufacturing process uses water there’s a good chance that you’d benefit from using deioni…

Pneumatics market can stand pressure

Added: 4 Feb 2009

IMS finds increasing demand for components that can be used in industrial networks, including valve…

AstraZeneca installs new nitrogen purged milling system

Added: 4 Feb 2009

Unit designed to provide extra safety features and best operating practices for handling potentiall…

New user group to improve alarm systems in UK water companies

Added: 4 Feb 2009

Water industry Alarm Systems Improvement Group meets need for enhanced safety systems at water comp…

National Grid's green, green gas of home

Added: 4 Feb 2009

Up to half the country’s domestic gas heating could be met by turning waste into biogas, says a new…