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UK process plant spending to grow

Added: 10 Mar 2008

The chemicals industry is projected to continue to account for the single largest share of total pr…

BASF rides the waves

Added: 10 Mar 2008

Chemicals group charts a careful course amid market, regulatory and project build uncertainty, offi…

Trelleborg

Added: 29 Feb 2008

Trelleborg Industrial AVS has appointed Amit Kaul as key account anager for India. Kaul is the firs…

Experts lined up for SOLIDS show

Added: 22 Feb 2008

Presenters will focus on areas ranging from plant efficiency and materials handling to health & saf…

Watson-Marlow acquires Flexicon A/S for GBP14m

Added: 22 Feb 2008

Danish company enhances peristaltic pump maker's aseptic filling and capping machine range

Citect factory data system takes the biscuit for Ryvita

Added: 18 Feb 2008

Poole plant achieves 90% reduction in manual inputs and major gains in efficiency, accuracy, transp…

Amplicon adds isolated digital I/O board to portfolio

Added: 18 Feb 2008

Industrial I/O board protects host computer and reduces interference issues, to ensure consistent c…

British Sugar joins Carbon Trust PAS 2050 standard initiative

Added: 18 Feb 2008

Joins 20 companies on the carbon footprint initiative including Cadbury Schweppes, Coca-Cola, Kimbe…

BASF first to issue carbon balance for its operations

Added: 18 Feb 2008

CO2 savings from BASF products outweigh emissions caused during production and disposal by a factor…

Limescale protection defuses Australian mines

Added: 15 Feb 2008

Scale so severe that the 150-litre hot water systems on some mine sites regularly ‘explode’ due to …

China chemicals maker adds GE Fanuc process control technology

Added: 15 Feb 2008

New 1000-ktpa dimethyl ether plant in Zhangjiagang operates three production lines with another two…

Solar Petroleum moves to safer, faster filling

Added: 15 Feb 2008

Has eliminated the lifting of full containers and increased filling speeds from 60 to 100 container…

UK researchers claim TiO2 process breakthrough

Added: 15 Feb 2008

Partnership with Millennium to advance process yielding 97% TiO2, compared with 85% industry averag…

Thames Water plant ups efficiency through gearbox replacement

Added: 15 Feb 2008

Brammer in conjunction with Brevini Gearboxes recommend standard planetary gearbox with an incorpor…

Statoil using ABB devices on world’s most northerly LNG plant

Added: 15 Feb 2008

Equipment for measurement of process temperatures, loading and offloading monitoring, spill detecti…

Dow, Alstom to develop amine scrubbing technology for power industry

Added: 15 Feb 2008

Alstom to lead on the installation of carbon capture systems using the developed process, while Dow…

Solids group in use-it-or-lose-it alert over funding

Added: 13 Feb 2008

"If we don’t make a success of this then the whole concept of ISHAB will dwindle and the Government…

Quality control of bioethanol

Added: 12 Feb 2008

Bioethanol must meet various parameters in terms of acidity, chloride and sulphur contents as well …

British Sugar targets flow control at UK's first bioethanol plant

Added: 12 Feb 2008

Wissington engineers opt for FF and AS-i compatible valve control for zone 1 hazardous area

Synthomer adds air scrubber system

Added: 12 Feb 2008

Target plate system is improving dust control on PVA drying process at Harlow production site