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ScottishPower boss talks CCS to Unite, WWF
Added: 24 Jun 2009
ScottishPower chief executive Nick Horler has highlighted his company's efforts to develop carbon c…
BP orders GE flow meters for major refinery expansion project
Added: 24 Jun 2009
Devices will monitor 36 critical flow points for a new coker unit being built as part of a multi-bi…
Dow, Gazprom ink greenhouse gas pact
Added: 23 Jun 2009
"Dow products and technologies will have a channel to global oil and gas markets, and we will have …
Merged DBIS department must do the business
Added: 22 Jun 2009
London - The UK Government has merged its BERR and DIUS departments to create a new Department for …
Smart Alec
Added: 22 Jun 2009
London - There was a slightly embarrassed pause during a recent Fisher Marketing First Friday Club…

Humber project to deliver 5000 jobs
Added: 19 Jun 2009
Plans for what will be one of the biggest port related developments in the country—covering almost …
Schneider issues emergency stop warning
Added: 18 Jun 2009
Machine builders still using potentially dangerous non-trigger action devices as deadline for the n…
Kettle expanding with SPC
Added: 18 Jun 2009
Production of potato crisps backed by adoption of SPC methods to maintain stable cooking characteri…
Knauf upgrades compressed air system
Added: 18 Jun 2009
£10 million upgrade programme at rock mineral wool production facility has included the plant’s com…
EU motor efficiency rules might not go far enough
Added: 18 Jun 2009
ATEX motors excluded, and the upper limit for the IE classification is only 375kW, notes Marek Luka…
Process plant investment to rebound in 2010
Added: 18 Jun 2009
UK investment to decline by 2% in 2008/09 and again by 2% in 2009/10 before resuming a clear growth…
Workers unite behind carbon capture
Added: 18 Jun 2009
GMB energy secretary: “Carbon capture and storage needs to become a reality. Nations like China wil…
CEMEX plant hits alternative fuels record
Added: 16 Jun 2009
South Ferriby Cement Plant has replaced more than 74% of the fuel used to heat its cement kiln with…
Parker Domnick Hunter adds high purity water treatment
Added: 16 Jun 2009
Mains water is pre-treated by a pair of CarboSoft units to remove hardness and free chlorine prior …
Market watchers see light at end of tunnel
Added: 16 Jun 2009
Experts detect flickering but consistent signs of a recovery in the industrial sector. The pickup t…
Modular brakes for Anglo Platinum ball mill application
Added: 15 Jun 2009
Modular brakes are providing up to 35MNm of total braking torque on two 8m ball mills, which are pa…
Redundant call centre workers start process apprenticeships
Added: 15 Jun 2009
Laid off workers join Sembcorp UK as process technicians. Two-year adult apprenticeship programme i…
Magnetic treatment attracts fuel savings at Tensar
Added: 15 Jun 2009
Blackburn company cut energy usage by 6% and improved boiler efficiency by about the same level tho…
Compressor aids de-silting
Added: 15 Jun 2009
Aeration system equipment is being used to de-silt the Denver Sluice on the River Great Ouse, near …