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Forgemasters gets funding to fuel nuclear ambitions
Added: 29 Mar 2010
Sheffield, UK - Sheffield Forgemasters International Ltd (SFIL) has secured a £140m funding package…
Aker Solutions adding 100 new jobs in North East
Added: 29 Mar 2010
Newcastle, UK – Global engineering and construction provider Aker Solutions is looking to recruit u…
SINOPEC completes gas transmission project
Added: 29 Mar 2010
Hong Kong – China Petroleum and Chemical Corp. (Sinopec) has completed a major project to transmit …
McCambridge pumps were eating all the pies
Added: 29 Mar 2010
Blackburn, UK – McCambridge Foods Ltd, a Blackburn-based producer of mince pies, experienced proble…
Lenzing invests in production sites in China, Austria
Added: 25 Mar 2010
Lenzing, Austria – Cellulose products maker Lenzing Group is expanding the capacity of its fibres p…
UK and International Plant Cost Indices
Added: 25 Mar 2010
First appearing in Process Engineering in 1973, our long-running UK and International Plant Cost In…
Alarming decline in engineering apprentices, minimum wage to start
Added: 25 Mar 2010
London – The number of adult engineering apprentices has risen 88% between 2008 and 2009, compared …
Italian power plant makes ASM gains, with remote help from Teesside
Added: 25 Mar 2010
Teverola, Italy – Centro Energia Teverola Spa (CET) has reported significant performance improvemen…
World's largest vortex control unit for Glasgow
Added: 24 Mar 2010
London – Arc Energy Resources, a supplier of fabrication services and a principal fabricator to Hyd…
US targets small nuclear plants
Added: 24 Mar 2010
New York – The US is preparing to revive its nuclear power industry, president Obama last month ple…
Shell starts Singapore ethylene cracker
Added: 24 Mar 2010
London – Shell has announced the start up of the ethylene cracker at its Shell Eastern Petrochemica…
Alstom UK directors arrested in bribery investigation
Added: 24 Mar 2010
London – Three members of the board of ALSTOM in the UK have been arrested on suspicion of bribery …
ICA Fluor nets $622m clean fuels contract in Mexico
Added: 24 Mar 2010
Mexico City –– Mexico’s state oil company, PEMEX Refining, has awarded ICA Fluor – a JV of Empresas…
Oilfield technology firm moves to Tees Valley
Added: 24 Mar 2010
Wilton, UK – Compact GTL has developed a method to solve the problem of associated gas in remote an…
Shell biogasoline startup a 'world first'
Added: 24 Mar 2010
London – Virent Energy Systems, Inc. and Shell have start production at what they say is the world’…
Cristal declares TiO2 force majeur after UK plant incident
Added: 23 Mar 2010
Jeddah, Saudi Arabia – Cristal Global has declared force majeure on all products manufactured at it…
Modern Water claims Middle East milestone
Added: 23 Mar 2010
London – Water technology company Modern Water plc has claimed an important milestone with the visi…
Edelchemie builds new waste treatment plant
Added: 23 Mar 2010
Cheshire, UK – Edelchemie is building a 15ktpa treatment plant for the recovery of metals, ammonia …
ExxonMobil, Invensys in refinery software deal
Added: 22 Mar 2010
London – ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Co. (EMRE) has agreed to allow Invensys Operations Man…
Panel to probe UK's Climate Research Unit
Added: 22 Mar 2010
London – Lord Oxburgh FRS, a former chair of the Lords Select Committee on Science and Technology, …