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CRC scheme: Penny has yet to drop
Added: 20 Jul 2010
The scheme offers significant payback for companies at the top of its performance league table, thr…
Wireless: War and peace?
Added: 20 Jul 2010
The wireless standards saga has entered a new chapter with Yokogawa’s launch of the “first” ISA100.…
Drax on road to conversion
Added: 20 Jul 2010
Drax plc aims to convert one of the six coal-fired units at its 4,000MW Yorkshire power station to …
Allied Mills maintenance effort now going to plan
Added: 20 Jul 2010
Tilbury, UK – Allied Mills has managed to completely reverse the ratio of unplanned versus planned …
Contracts & Projects Tracker: June 2010
Added: 16 Jul 2010
Invensys has signed a second long-term agreement with China Nuclear Power Engineering Co. (CNPE) to…
Buncefield trial ends with modest fines for safety and pollution offences
Added: 16 Jul 2010
St Alban’s, UK – Five companies have been ordered to pay £9.5 million for their part in the 2005 fi…
Adnams, British Gas advance pioneering AD project
Added: 16 Jul 2010
London – Adnams Bio Energy Ltd and British Gas have completed the construction phase of what is sai…
Energy drives Atlas Copco recovery
Added: 16 Jul 2010
Stockholm – Atlas Copco’s second quarter results show a recovery in overall demand for the group’s …
Wireless: Yokogawa weighs in
Added: 15 Jul 2010
Japanese-based group ’leapfrogs’ ISA100.11a rival, and questions industry enthusiasm for WirelessHA…
Emerson gains MAC status on Shell Prelude project
Added: 15 Jul 2010
Southampton, UK – Technip Samsung Consortium has appointed Emerson Process Management as main autom…
Food and beverage makers grow appetite for wireless
Added: 15 Jul 2010
Mark McCormick of Siemens Industry Automation and Drive Technologies (IA&DT) explains why many food…
Bechtel starts to build first Saudi smelter
Added: 14 Jul 2010
London – Bechtel has started construction work on Saudi Arabia’s first ever aluminium smelter at th…
Drives: All things considered
Added: 14 Jul 2010
Energy efficiency should not merely focus on optimising the consumption of individual electric moto…
Process blind spot
Added: 14 Jul 2010
A TUV NEL research team is currently trying to resolve the sometimes costly problems encountered wh…
CRC: Pie in the sky?
Added: 14 Jul 2010
Despite the incentives and penalties, the Carbon Reduction Commitment scheme is still generating li…
All change on the rig
Added: 14 Jul 2010
Oil rig operators in the North Sea are adopting new condition-based maintenance strategies and tech…
Whisky plant's 20% proof
Added: 14 Jul 2010
William Grant is extending its use of motor condition monitoring technology following a three-month…
Cameras in for the kiln
Added: 14 Jul 2010
Project at a major Middle East cement works highlights the value of thermal imaging technology. Pat…
Honeywell upgrade for Dolphin Energy
Added: 14 Jul 2010
London – Honeywell is working with Dolphin Energy in Qatar to upgrade its existing Experion Process…
ENEL opens "world's first" molten-salt/solar plant
Added: 14 Jul 2010
Rome – Italian power group Enel has inaugurated its Archimede solar thermal power plant at Priolo G…
