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Konecranes nets Corus, Parker Steel contracts
Added: 20 Sep 2010
East Kilbride, UK – Konecranes UK’s Industrial Crane Division in East Kilbride is to supply Corus i…

Heat exchanger maintenance firm targets heating accuracy
Added: 17 Sep 2010
Barnsley, UK – PJ Heat Exchangers (PJHE) has installed two process tank heating systems fromLanemar…

UK could be a carbon capture 'loser'
Added: 17 Sep 2010
Dunfermline, UK – News that oil companies could make “serious profit” by pumping carbon dioxide fro…

British Energy taps Babcock's nuclear tool design
Added: 15 Sep 2010
London – Babcock has won a competitively tendered £1.3-million contract from British Energy to deve…

Down the drain
Added: 15 Sep 2010
When it comes to leakage, much of the emphasis to date has focused on putting pressure on UK water …

SET Student of the Year winners
Added: 15 Sep 2010
London – Winners of the 2010 Science, Engineering & Technology Student of the Year, have been annou…

Buncefield blast study
Added: 15 Sep 2010
London – The Steel Construction Institute (SCI) is to project manage a joint industry research proj…

Shell expands oil sands operation
Added: 15 Sep 2010
London – Shell has started production of a 100,000 barrels per day expansion of its Athabasca Oil S…

First biodegradable plastics unit in Portugal
Added: 15 Sep 2010
Stuttgart, Germany - Coperion GmbH has installed the first compounding plant for biodegradable plas…

Skills Academy, CIA target process safety management
Added: 14 Sep 2010
The National Skills Academy Process Industries (NSAPI) and the Chemical Industries Association (CIA…

CRC: confusion ahead
Added: 14 Sep 2010
Instead of its intended role - to help the UK do its bit to roll back “global warming” - the CRC En…

Controlled benefits
Added: 14 Sep 2010
Saint-Gobain Glass has developed a global engineering approach to encompass all equipment and funct…

Moves to decentralisation
Added: 13 Sep 2010
Decentralised automation systems are now a realistic alternative to control cabinet systems in many…

Slurry gets a stir
Added: 13 Sep 2010
Sand and gravel processor Aggregate Industries has reported major efficiency and maintenance benefi…

Global trends point to a changing daq market
Added: 13 Sep 2010
New requirements are emerging as end-users seek to launch products with markedly reduced developmen…

Locking up
Added: 12 Sep 2010
Tim Hughes offers advice on how to select the most appropriate locking device for different types o…

NAMUR advances wireless standards convergence
Added: 10 Sep 2010
Leverkusen, Germany – Automation end users group NAMUR has published new recommendations (Full deta…

BP's Deepwater Horizon report lacks depth
Added: 9 Sep 2010
London – That BP’s report into the Gulf of Mexico disaster has failed to get to the bottom of the m…

Attitudes to wireless survey results
Added: 9 Sep 2010
Enough has happened in the Wireless arena over the past two years to suggest much greater adoption …

Getting real on wireless
Added: 8 Sep 2010
The responses to our Attitudes to Wireless 2010 survey offer a reality check on issues surrounding …