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Dynamic simulation can accelerate APC payback
Added: 25 Mar 2008
How can an APC project be delivered as soon as possible after start-up?
British Sugar stirred by the challenges of ATEX/DSEAR
Added: 25 Mar 2008
British Sugar plc operates four sugar beet processing plants in the UK producing more than one mill…
Smarter and faster software
Added: 25 Mar 2008
A Norwegian company specialising in liquid handling systems and technology for the global oil & gas…

Data system takes the biscuit
Added: 25 Mar 2008
Ryvita, part of the Associated British Foods Group, has achieved a 90% reduction in manual inputs a…
Air knive helps Corus to cut costs
Added: 25 Mar 2008
new blower-powered Airknife moisture removal system installed on the five-stand mill at the Corus T…
Raising the quality bar
Added: 25 Mar 2008
European water regulations are increasing customer focus on quality and reliability of fluid handli…
I'm an employer, get me out of here
Added: 25 Mar 2008
In the March April edition of Process Engineering, Dr Stan Higgins of NEPIC gives the benefit of hi…

Foundation leads on fieldbus
Added: 25 Mar 2008
Foundation Fieldbus (FF) has a 68% share of the market for intelligent networks in the process indu…
Regulators stymie 'green' investment
Added: 25 Mar 2008
Chemical industry plans to invest in plants and process technologies that reduce emissions and impr…
Late chance for employers to reverse process skills decline
Added: 25 Mar 2008
The current skills shortage in the UK process industries sector - that is chemicals, pharmaceutical…
Will Cooper play safe with MTL?
Added: 25 Mar 2008
Texas-based Cooper Industries' £144-million acquisition of the MTL Instruments Group will require c…
Smarter ways to pay
Added: 25 Mar 2008
London - The process industries are under increasing pressure to improve their operations by instal…

Spin doctors weigh in
Added: 24 Mar 2008
Turbomachinery generally operates at high speeds, often generating huge levels of rotating mass wit…
AM is good for you
Added: 24 Mar 2008
London - Diageo is rolling out a new asset management programme across its production sites worldwi…

Fire at INEOS site in Germany
Added: 20 Mar 2008
Petrochemicals blaze was tackled by 600 firefighters with another 600 members of the emergency serv…
US chemical companies in largest ever cyber security exercise
Added: 20 Mar 2008
Department of Homeland Security’s Cyber Storm II to reveal important lessons at all levels of infor…
Shell details investment plans
Added: 19 Mar 2008
" We are creating new heartlands for Shell in a new energy landscape," van der Veer
BASF, SINOPEC in $900m expansion at Nanjing site
Added: 19 Mar 2008
Strategic downstream expansion to come on stream stepwise starting in 2008, cracker expansion plann…
INEOS Polyolefins expanding Grangemouth capacities
Added: 19 Mar 2008
Company plans to introduce swing capability on its 310 ktpa LLDPE plant to produce HDPE grades.