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Rotork valves control flow in Welsh Water plant
Added: 29 Jul 2010
Cwellyn, UK – Welsh Water is investing £200m to upgrade its water-treatment works across Wales by 2…
Centrica Energy project hits asset management targets
Added: 28 Jul 2010
London – The Woodhouse Partnership Ltd (TWPL) has recently carried out an assessment and gap analys…
ABB launches CRC survival kit
Added: 28 Jul 2010
London – ABB has launched a CRC Survival Kit contains several tools developed to offer the biggest …
Emerson in control at China power plant
Added: 28 Jul 2010
Yinchuan City, China – Emerson Process Management has won a $2.7m (£1.7m) contract to install its O…
Seafood supplier shells out on maintenance
Added: 28 Jul 2010
Uddingston, UK – Dawnfresh Seafoods has selected Mainsaver CMMS to manage engineering maintenance a…
Concrete contract for infrared specialists
Added: 28 Jul 2010
Hameln, Germany – Infrared specialist and manufacturer Ceramicx and German heating expert Friedr Fr…
Climate change rules to hike energy bills by 141%, and shut factories
Added: 27 Jul 2010
London – The combined impact of the Government’s climate change policies is imposing significant co…
Hayward to quit BP
Added: 27 Jul 2010
London – Tony Hayward is stepping down as BP’s group chief executive as of 1 Oct and will be succee…
Tony Hayward - the fall guy?
Added: 27 Jul 2010
As I write this on a cloudy Monday afternoon in central London, BP chief executive Tony Hayward is …
Bob Dudley to lead BP
Added: 27 Jul 2010
London – Bob Dudley is to take over as chief executive of BP on 1 Oct. He is currently a main board…
E.ON switches valves at UK power plant
Added: 26 Jul 2010
Northwich, UK – E.ON has recently applied Emerson’s Fisher Control-Disk valve to improve backwash f…
ABB notes recovery in process automation markets
Added: 23 Jul 2010
Zurich, Switzerland – ABB’s process automation business has reported increased orders Q2/10 on stro…
Chevron, ConocoPhillips, ExxonMobil, Shell plan rapid deployment system for deepwater oil leaks
Added: 22 Jul 2010
Washington – Chevron, ConocoPhillips, ExxonMobil and Shell have launched a plan to build and deploy…
Micro Motion meters for Italian wine, alcohol plant
Added: 22 Jul 2010
Faenza, Italy – Italian agro-industrial group Caviro Distillerie Srl has installed Emerson’s Micro …
KBR to build advanced wastewater treatment plant
Added: 21 Jul 2010
Houston, Texas – KBR has been appointed to an alliance that will design and build one of the world’…
Call for process employers to shape new foundation degrees
Added: 21 Jul 2010
Newcastle, UK – Employers in the process industries are being urged to shape the new Working Higher…
Denca controls for United Utilities
Added: 20 Jul 2010
Widnes, UK – Endress+Hauser has appointed Denca Controls Ltd. to install and commission the control…
Boardroom battles
Added: 20 Jul 2010
The increasing role of IT, and indeed IT engineers, in control and automation could, some believe, …
Feeling fines
Added: 20 Jul 2010
The record fines issued to five companies involved in the Buncefield (Hemel Hempstead, UK) oil depo…
How safe are heat transfer systems?
Added: 20 Jul 2010
A number of industrial incidents has called into question the safety of heat transfer fluids if use…
