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Skills shortages despite recession
Added: 7 Jul 2009
UK is still having problems filling engineering positions despite the impact of the recession, acco…
Schneider warning triggers debate
Added: 7 Jul 2009
Ray Maybury of Fortress Interlocks believes Schneider's advice is misleading, particularly in relat…
Diageo under fire over cuts
Added: 7 Jul 2009
GMB to meet Diageo management in Stirling to discuss the 900 job loses announced by the company yes…
MACs buoy DCS markets
Added: 7 Jul 2009
Project services continue to grow due to the increasing popularity of the main automation contracto…
Linde secures $1bn cracker contract from Borouge
Added: 7 Jul 2009
Third ethane cracker in Abu Dhabi, one of the world’s largest, will have a capacity of 1500ktpa of …
Green shoots recede in spring
Added: 7 Jul 2009
UK production output fell 1.8% quarter-on-quarter period over the three months to end of May and wa…
Algae technologies continue to grow
Added: 7 Jul 2009
Developments in UK and US reflect increasing interest in the technology, which could reduce global …

Skills shortages persist despite recession
Added: 7 Jul 2009
Meanwhile, the UK is still having problems filling engineering positions despite the impact of the …
Green light for massive BASF project in China
Added: 7 Jul 2009
Chinese government approves $1.4bn expansion by joint venture, BASF-YPC Co., Ltd. (BYC), in Nanjing…
EU advances carbon capture plans
Added: 3 Jul 2009
New plans to finance the demonstration of carbon capture and geological storage (CCS) in cooperatio…
Engineering firm ignored safety guard rules for eight years
Added: 3 Jul 2009
"Crest Engineering took a deliberate decision to remove the safety guards on the machines despite r…
ARC tips emerging economies to revive global drives market
Added: 3 Jul 2009
Brazil, Russia, India, China and Eastern Europe will spring the market back to life, as increasing …
Honeywell acquiring German supplier of natural gas measuring products
Added: 2 Jul 2009
Regel + Messtechnik GmbH supplies natural gas measuring and control products, services and integrat…
Hymn numbers IEC61508 and IEC61511
Added: 2 Jul 2009
Industry safety standards association wants to get everyone singing off the same sheet

Axer Sulzer takes recessionary remedy
Added: 1 Jul 2009
Around 1,400 jobs will go from workforce of 12,726, with Europe and the Americas the main regions a…
Comment: A necessary evil?
Added: 1 Jul 2009
Fundamental flaws in the government’s strategy of building up mountains of national debt to prop up…

Breakthrough for apprenticeships campaigners?
Added: 30 Jun 2009
The Government looks set to offer support to process sector apprentices who lose their training dur…
Fatal injuries at record low
Added: 30 Jun 2009
Number of people killed at work in Britain has fallen to a record low, new figures from the Health …
Lindsey engineering workers go back to work
Added: 29 Jun 2009
Construction work on the HDS-3 hydrodesulphurisation unit at Total’s Lindsey Oil Refinery was set t…