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Konecranes nets Corus, Parker Steel contracts

Added: 20 Sep 2010

East Kilbride, UK – Konecranes UK’s Industrial Crane Division in East Kilbride is to supply Corus i…

Heat exchanger maintenance firm targets heating accuracy

Added: 17 Sep 2010

Barnsley, UK – PJ Heat Exchangers (PJHE) has installed two process tank heating systems fromLanemar…

UK could be a carbon capture 'loser'

Added: 17 Sep 2010

Dunfermline, UK – News that oil companies could make “serious profit” by pumping carbon dioxide fro…

British Energy taps Babcock's nuclear tool design

Added: 15 Sep 2010

London – Babcock has won a competitively tendered £1.3-million contract from British Energy to deve…

Down the drain

Added: 15 Sep 2010

When it comes to leakage, much of the emphasis to date has focused on putting pressure on UK water …

SET Student of the Year winners

Added: 15 Sep 2010

London – Winners of the 2010 Science, Engineering & Technology Student of the Year, have been annou…

Buncefield blast study

Added: 15 Sep 2010

London – The Steel Construction Institute (SCI) is to project manage a joint industry research proj…

Shell expands oil sands operation

Added: 15 Sep 2010

London – Shell has started production of a 100,000 barrels per day expansion of its Athabasca Oil S…

First biodegradable plastics unit in Portugal

Added: 15 Sep 2010

Stuttgart, Germany - Coperion GmbH has installed the first compounding plant for biodegradable plas…

Skills Academy, CIA target process safety management

Added: 14 Sep 2010

The National Skills Academy Process Industries (NSAPI) and the Chemical Industries Association (CIA…

CRC: confusion ahead

Added: 14 Sep 2010

Instead of its intended role - to help the UK do its bit to roll back “global warming” - the CRC En…

Saint-Gobain Glass

Controlled benefits

Added: 14 Sep 2010

Saint-Gobain Glass

Saint-Gobain Glass has developed a global engineering approach to encompass all equipment and funct…

Moves to decentralisation

Added: 13 Sep 2010

Decentralised automation systems are now a realistic alternative to control cabinet systems in many…

Slurry gets a stir

Added: 13 Sep 2010

Sand and gravel processor Aggregate Industries has reported major efficiency and maintenance benefi…

The importantance of interface types in a data-acquisition system

Global trends point to a changing daq market

Added: 13 Sep 2010

New requirements are emerging as end-users seek to launch products with markedly reduced developmen…

Locking up

Added: 12 Sep 2010

Tim Hughes offers advice on how to select the most appropriate locking device for different types o…

NAMUR advances wireless standards convergence

Added: 10 Sep 2010

Leverkusen, Germany – Automation end users group NAMUR has published new recommendations (Full deta…

BP's Deepwater Horizon report lacks depth

Added: 9 Sep 2010

London – That BP’s report into the Gulf of Mexico disaster has failed to get to the bottom of the m…

Attitudes to wireless survey results

Added: 9 Sep 2010

Enough has happened in the Wireless arena over the past two years to suggest much greater adoption …

Getting real on wireless

Added: 8 Sep 2010

The responses to our Attitudes to Wireless 2010 survey offer a reality check on issues surrounding …