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British Sugar gets back in gear

Added: 9 Apr 2010

King’s Lynn, UK – When a worm gear drive crown wheel failed due to overload on a crucial conveyor b…

Video recorder survives boring conditions

Added: 9 Apr 2010

Margate, UK – An ABB videographic data recorder was withstood use in an application 30 metres under…

Northumbrian Water launches pumping station upgrade

Added: 9 Apr 2010

Durham, UK – Northumbrian Water is to upgrade Benwell Pumping Station, which pumps 40 million litre…

Natures Way moves to real-time reporting at UK plants

Added: 8 Apr 2010

Chichester, UK – Natures Way Foods is installing a manufacturing operations management system from …

Redhall buoyed by Vivergo, Chevron, Sellafield wins

Added: 8 Apr 2010

London – UK engineering services provider Redhall Group plc has posted a number of contract wins, i…

Emerson Wireless network for Polish biomass power plant

Added: 7 Apr 2010

Austin, Texas – Emerson Process Management’s Smart Wireless network with Rosemount wireless transmi…

Automation sales recovering after 40% slump

Added: 7 Apr 2010

London – The global automation market is starting to pull out of a slump which saw revenues fall al…

Spanish water treatment plant solves purity problems

Added: 7 Apr 2010

Barcelona, Spain – A new water treatment plant near Barcelona and designed by Severn Trent Services…

Cogent launches Skills Match

Added: 7 Apr 2010

London – Cogent has launched a free web-based resource to enable individuals and employers generate…

Growth for PROFIBUS and PROFINET

Added: 6 Apr 2010

London – The number of PROFIBUS devices sold worldwide rose by 3.1 million during 2009 to reach a c…

European CO2 Center adds advanced gas-liquid mixing

Added: 6 Apr 2010

Montreal, Quebec – Canadian company ProSep Inc. is to supply a fuel gas quencher unit, based on its…

KSB: Pumps and valves market to remain difficult in 2010

Added: 6 Apr 2010

Frankenthal, Germany – Pumps and valves maker KSB has posted a 14% drop in pretax earnings to Euro1…

BP partners net Iraq oilfield contracts worth $500m

Added: 6 Apr 2010

London – BP has announced the first major contracts involving its partners on the rehabilitation of…

Algeria advances desalination plants programme

Added: 5 Apr 2010

Barcelona, Spain – Severn Trent Services-Apliclor, in partnership with ACCIONA AGUA and SCN-Lavalin…

Corus extends condition monitoring at Scunthorpe plant

Added: 1 Apr 2010

Scunthorpe, UK – Steel maker Corus is to extend its use of online vibration devices for condition m…

UK energy production down 6% in 2009

Added: 31 Mar 2010

London – Total energy production in the UK in 2009 was 166.8 million tonnes of oil equivalent, 5.8%…

Nuclear new builds to create 30,000 jobs

Added: 31 Mar 2010

London – Up to 30,000 new jobs could be created by a significant nuclear new build programme, says …

Norway mine using Trolex sensors

Added: 31 Mar 2010

London – The Svea Nord coal mine in Spitzbergen, Norway is using STX3241 and STX3261 toxic and flam…

Report: 80% believe UK emission targets are "unrealistic"

Added: 31 Mar 2010

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London – Nearly half of businesses set to participate in the…

Bayer, Uhde to build first 'climate friendly' chlorine plant

Added: 30 Mar 2010

Leverkusen, Germany – Bayer MaterialScience AG (BMS) and Uhde GmbH have signed a contract for the c…