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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…