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European counterfeit bearings seized

Added: 22 Mar 2010

London – Police have seized 6,500 counterfeit bearings, imported to Sweden and packaged as SKF prod…

ETI launches £25m carbon capture search

Added: 22 Mar 2010

London – The Energy Technologies Institute (ETI) is seeking organisations or consortia to bid for a…

Process Skills Academy adds composites and biotechnology

Added: 19 Mar 2010

London – The National Skills Academy Process Industries (NSAPI) is to create two new hubs for biote…

Machinery Directive moves could be a waste of money, warns Schneider

Added: 19 Mar 2010

London – With the European Commission’s news to allow EN 954-1 to continue for a further two years,…

Total makeover for loss-making French refinery

Added: 19 Mar 2010

Paris – Total plans to shut down its refining operations in Dunkirk, northern France, which will be…

Schematic view of the 50MW CHP plant being built at the Scottish plant of papermaker Tullis

Renewed CHP drive

Added: 18 Mar 2010

Renewable combined heat and power needs the right investment climate. Patrick Raleigh reports

Phil Masding

INEOS project reduces energy bill by £3m

Added: 18 Mar 2010

Philip Masding, process control manager at INEOS Chlor, on how a project to channel hydrogen gas by…

NI Water bosses sacked after procurement probe

Added: 18 Mar 2010

Belfast, Northern Ireland – NI Water (NIW) chairman and three non-executive directors of the compan…

Keeping solids on the move

Added: 18 Mar 2010

Options to keep powders and other solid materials flowing

UK to build Europe's largest carbon capture pilot plant

Added: 18 Mar 2010

London – The UK government is to invest over £6m in a new £20m project that will see the constructi…

Frank Wilson

IR underused, not understood

Added: 17 Mar 2010

Frank Wilson

Frank Wilson

“I want to go into every university in the world and give a right roasting to whoever i…

Total launches Shetland offshore development

Added: 17 Mar 2010

London – Total has unveiled plans for its Laggan and Tormore gas fields development in the offshore…

Making sense of heat measurement sensors

Added: 16 Mar 2010

It is important to consider some key parameters before finalising the selection of infrared tempera…

BP wins appeal against $100m fine

Added: 16 Mar 2010

London – BP has successfully appealed a US court’s ruling that it must pay $100 million (£65m) in d…

Shell adds Honeywell to MAC list

Added: 16 Mar 2010

London – Honeywell has followed Emerson and Yokogawa in signing a global agreement to be a Main Aut…

Corus fined £100k over crane accident

Added: 16 Mar 2010

Sheffield, UK – Steelmaker Corus UK Ltd has been fined £100,000 and ordered to pay £9,908.50 costs …

Rotork for strategic LNG project in Chile

Added: 16 Mar 2010

Quintero Bay, Chile – Rotork fluid power valve actuators have been installed throughout a major new…

David Fox

Skills an investment, not a cost

Added: 16 Mar 2010

Careers in focus - David Fox

Alistair-Mackenzie

Swings and roundabouts

Added: 16 Mar 2010

Alistair Mackenzie examines the ’wild and unnecessary’ swings that occur in buyer/supplier relation…

Process companies need to understand what is required and develop effective strategies to deal with

Act now if you R22 survive

Added: 16 Mar 2010

A ban on the use of the virgin HCFC gas as of 1 January 2010, and recycled gas from 2015, has creat…