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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…