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Pumps and mixers for world's largest biogas research plant

Added: 2 Mar 2010

More than 50 Landia mixers and pumps have been installed at the University of Aarhus Research Centr…

Win a pair of tickets to Hannover Messe 2010

Added: 2 Mar 2010

Hannover Messe 2010 is taking place 19- 23 April in Hannover, Germany, with nine flagship shows pro…

Teaching engineers about ATEX

Added: 2 Mar 2010

Rather than just passing exams, you must be able to apply safety knowledge on a sustained basis, wr…

Timing good for migrations

Added: 2 Mar 2010

Ian Heathcock of Siemens Industry Automation believes the economic downturn has opened a window of …

Greater reliance on electricity a risk to low-carbon strategy

Added: 1 Mar 2010

London – Using more electricity to heat buildings and power cars increases our dependence on the el…

GAMBICA: Turning fans down can take one in three cars off the road

Added: 1 Mar 2010


London – If just half of the UK’s electric motors were reduced in speed by 10%, it would have the n…

DavyMarkham sold to Indian EPC group

Added: 1 Mar 2010

Sheffield, UK – DavyMarkham has been acquired by India’s leading engineering procurement and constr…

MAN Turbo turns to WEG

Added: 1 Mar 2010

Oberhausen, Germany – MAN Turbo AG is employing a 45-tonne, 14,000kW, 10,000V high voltage slipring…

Drax to pull plug on £2bn biomass project

Added: 1 Mar 2010

London – ?Drax chief executive Dorothy Thompson has threatened to move its proposed £2-billion biom…

GMB calls on RWE, Alstom to provide 'fair access' for UK workers

Added: 1 Mar 2010

Londoin – The GMB trade union has called upon RWE N-Power and Alstom to ensure fair access to the 2…

Bayer MaterialScience planning world-scale TDI plant at Dormagen site

Added: 1 Mar 2010

Euro150m facility to use new production process offering energy savings of up to 60%

Shell, HP ink wireless sensors pact for oil & gas exploration

Added: 1 Mar 2010

London – Shell and HP are to jointly develop a wireless sensing system to meet oil and gas industry…

More Sandvik equipment for Iran gas field

Added: 1 Mar 2010

Fellbach, Germany – Sandvik Process Systems is to supply the sulphur solidification and handling ec…

Patrick Raleigh, Editor

Vendors, end-users can bridge the divide

Added: 28 Feb 2010

Patrick Raleigh, Editor

Patrick Raleigh, Editor

The sometimes difficult state of relationships between equipment suppliers a…

Drax could pull plug on biomass

Added: 28 Feb 2010

Change in regulatory regime required before plans for £2 billion investment can go ahead

BA to pilot green fuel production

Added: 28 Feb 2010

British Airways has unveiled plans to establish what it believes will be Europe’s first ’sustainabl…

Oil & gas merger

Added: 28 Feb 2010

Schlumberger, the world’s largest oil services group, has acquired Smith International in an all-sh…

UK banks on low-carbon

Added: 28 Feb 2010

In the wake of the recent decision to mothball most of the Corus Teesside Cast Products plant at Re…

Cyber attacks hit ETS scheme

Added: 28 Feb 2010

The European Commission has reported widespread cyber attacks on EU Emissions Trading System (EU ET…

Dr Ricky Tomanek

Complexity out of control

Added: 28 Feb 2010

Should process companies put more onus on vendors as their systems get more complex? Patrick Raleig…