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Energy Institute elects first chartered energy manager
Added: 8 Dec 2010
The Energy Institute (EI) has elected its first chartered energy manager - Owen Everall CEng MEI, w…
Recovery in 'fierce' IO module market
Added: 8 Dec 2010
Dedham, Massachusetts – The IO module market is drive by fierce competition, which lead to a rapid …
Race for the prize
Added: 7 Dec 2010
I was lucky enough to be able to attend The Engineer’s Technology and Innovation Awards in London l…
Jacobs technology first at Taiwan sulfur recovery unit
Added: 7 Dec 2010
Pasadena, California – Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. has received a contract from CPC Corp. of Taiw…
Tecpetrol tunes into WirelessHART
Added: 6 Dec 2010
Buenos Aires – Tecpetrol is employing Emerson Process Management’s Smart Wireless technology, based…
Heating Nestle chocolate factory
Added: 6 Dec 2010
Halifax, UK – An energy saving heating and cooling system installed at one of Nestle’s UK chocolate…
Changing process control systems
Added: 6 Dec 2010
Ian Heathcock from Siemens Industry Automation examines the changing factors that are influencing m…
Yokogawa nets Vietnam power plant project
Added: 6 Dec 2010
London – Yokogawa Engineering Asia Pte. Ltd. has won an order from Marubeni Corp. to supply the con…
Shell shapes up for aromatics growth
Added: 3 Dec 2010
After two years of very tough business conditions for the C6 aromatics value chain, there is now “a…
Scarborough Power taps Edina for waste-to-energy plant
Added: 3 Dec 2010
London – Scarborough Power Ltd, which operates the first commercial UK plant for the conversion of …
Grain LNG expansion now on stream
Added: 3 Dec 2010
Isle of Grain, UK – National Grid has started commercial operations at the second capacity expansio…
Contracts & Projects Tracker: Nov 2010
Added: 2 Dec 2010
The UK government plans to establish eight new nuclear plants as part of a “surge of investment” in…
RWE Innogy starts work on UK's biggest biomass CHP plant
Added: 2 Dec 2010
Markinch, UK – RWE npower renewables, a UK subsidiary of RWE Innogy, has started to build its bioma…
Saint Bernard?
Added: 30 Nov 2010
Bernard Matthews died last week at the age of 80. Matthews and the company he founded was one of th…
BASF investing up to Euro10bn at HQ site
Added: 29 Nov 2010
Ludwigshafen, Germany – BASF SE is to spend Euro9-10 billion on measures to safeguard the future of…
ATEX camera sales help transform Extronics
Added: 29 Nov 2010
Cheshire, UK – Hazardous area equipment maker Extronics, has reported a 37% export-led, sales incre…
Kingfisher resolves wear-liner problems at coal-fired power station
Added: 29 Nov 2010
Kingfisher Industrial has provided a ceramic wear-protection liner to a coal-fired power station, t…
Accidents without frontiers
Added: 26 Nov 2010
Nearing the fifth anniversary of the Buncefield accident, I am currently attempting to track indust…
WMH beefs up Yorkshire pudding line
Added: 26 Nov 2010
Cornish machine builder Western Mechanical Handling (WMH) UK Ltd has recently developed a new techn…
Process escapes cuts
Added: 25 Nov 2010
The UK government’s spending review was anticipated with much apprehension in many quarters, but it…