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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…