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Ensus still fighting odour problem at Teesside biofuels plant

Added: 1 Feb 2011

Teesside, UK – Ensus is continuing to battle an odour problem, which has been affecting people livi…

Shell to expand shale gas production

Added: 1 Feb 2011

London – Shell is working to produce more natural gas and by 2012 our production will be more gas t…

Process Business Barometer: Jan 2011

Added: 1 Feb 2011

Update of industry and financial experts’ views on how the process sector is likely to fare in 2011…

GEA evaporator for major Czech dairy

Added: 28 Jan 2011

Prague – Madeta AS, a major private dairy company in the Czech Republic, has awarded GEA Group a co…

Siemens boss: Government must do more to support UK industry

Added: 28 Jan 2011

York, UK – Robin Phillips, financial director at Siemens Industry UK Group, has called upon the Gov…

Machinery Directive - Idiots getting smarter

Added: 27 Jan 2011

London – These days “machines are designed to be idiot-proof: problem is, the idiots are getting sm…

SITA UK project to manage Scottish waste

Added: 26 Jan 2011

London – SITA UK is to submit a Proposal of Application Notice (PAN) to Aberdeenshire Council outli…

UK company to set up biomass power plants in Cuba

Added: 26 Jan 2011

London – UK company Havana Energy Ltd - part of the Esencia Group - has teamed up with Zerus SA, a …

UK shale-gas report lacks scientific evidence

Added: 25 Jan 2011

Manchester, UK – Researchers at the Tyndall Centre at the University of Manchester claim to have de…

Slash and burn

Added: 25 Jan 2011

This morning’s news from the Office of National Statistics that the UK economy shrank by 0.5 per ce…

New Skills Academy for process sector

Added: 25 Jan 2011

London – UK skills Minister John Hayes has given the go ahead for the creation of a new National Sk…

New thinking on older staff

Added: 25 Jan 2011

Pension law changes and demographics will require new strategies for older workers

Denca upgrades NI power plant

Added: 24 Jan 2011

Widnes, UK – The AES Ballylumford gas-fired electricity power station in Northern Ireland is seekin…

Buncefield progress fuels debate

Added: 24 Jan 2011

With the process industries still striving to address all the safety issues raised by the investiga…

Government apprenticeship plans "short-sighted and flawed"

Added: 24 Jan 2011

London – The UK government’s new Specification of Apprenticeship Standards for England (SASE) has “…

Innovators to enter 'Dragon's Den' at Maintec

Added: 24 Jan 2011

Birmingham, UK – New maintenance ideas will be pitched to industry expert ’Lions’ at a Dragons’ Den…

Occidental to join ADNOC on giant Shah Gas Field project

Added: 24 Jan 2011

Los Angeles – Occidental Petroleum Corp. (Oxy) is to participate in the development of Abu Dhabi’s …

Process scrubber for Johnson Matthey plant

Added: 21 Jan 2011

Clitheroe, UK – Johnson Matthey has recently installed a new manufacturing process at the Clitheroe…

BP expects 40% growth in energy demand but is "not optimistic" about emissions

Added: 21 Jan 2011

London – World energy growth over the next 20 years will be dominated by emerging economies such as…

CBI: Recovery well on track

Added: 21 Jan 2011

London – The manufacturing recovery is well on track, driven primarily by export orders, the CBI sa…