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Business as usual?

Added: 4 Oct 2007

UK industry sites are releasing fewer air pollutants but greenhouse-gas and waste-production levels…

Plastic piping for nuclear station

Added: 4 Oct 2007

British Energy is switching to polyethylene (PE) pipework as an alternative to coated steel for the…

Cadbury to axe 700 UK jobs

Added: 4 Oct 2007

Closure of 500-employee Keynsham factory. Another 200 jobs to go at Bournville

Chocolate block

Added: 3 Oct 2007

Gertrude Hawk Chocolates (GHC), a US chocolate manufacturer serves high volume markets that demand …

KPI: No more heroes

Added: 3 Oct 2007

Patrick Raleigh visits Flexsys' Ruabon Works — now a world-class chemicals operation following a se…

Cheese maker cuts fuel consumption

Added: 2 Oct 2007

UK’s largest cheese maker installs energy saving systems on three oil-fired, steam-raising boilers…

Ethernet boosts coal-mine safety and economics

Added: 2 Oct 2007

Technology is helping to drive a resurgence in the UK coal mining; improving operators’ ability to …

BASF, RWE, Linde target CO2 capture in coal-fired power plants

Added: 2 Oct 2007

Joint venture agreed. Commercial application from 2020, with 90% of CO2 to be removed from combusti…

Mono of the Glen

Added: 2 Oct 2007

Severn Trent is operating two auto desludge packages at its Great Glen Sewage Treatment Works in Le…

Weighing requirements for the chemical industry

Added: 2 Oct 2007

Amid all the IT- and legislation-driven changes, the main elements of static weighing systems have …

Wireless plant and backhaul in the industrial environment

Added: 1 Oct 2007

Invensys technical paper highlights the potential of the emerging WiMAX standard in applications re…

Board maker gets unstuck

Added: 1 Oct 2007

Europe's leading manufacturer of particle board Pfleiderer has overcome production issues at its Gr…

Marmite project saves time and energy

Added: 1 Oct 2007

Unilever UK has increased throughput by 30%, made waste savings of 10% and cut energy consumption b…

Belts deliver energy savings for air compressors

Added: 1 Oct 2007

Year-long study examined energy saving potential of REC belts over wrapped belts, when used to driv…

Turning the global tide

Added: 1 Oct 2007

Those who belive that it is no longer feasible to manufacture chemicals in the UK - a prevailing vi…

Fresh blow to UK pharma industry

Added: 1 Oct 2007

Concern as Pfizer decides to shutdown manufacturing operations in Kent — the latest in a series of …

Emerson, Cisco attune

Added: 1 Oct 2007

Emerson Process Management and Cisco have linked up to offer open-standard systems for wireless pro…

Investors turn off water

Added: 1 Oct 2007

Private investors are showing little interest in funding projects in the water sector, a senior ind…

Foot & Mouth outbreak linked to process failings

Added: 1 Oct 2007

Poor maintenance and control procedures allowed virus to transfer from research centre to farmland …

Clean and flexible

Added: 1 Oct 2007

Regulatory and commercial pressures are driving the market for hygienic processing equipment that i…