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Pilkington targets £250k annual savings via transport deal

Added: 17 Sep 2009

Glass manufacturer outsourcing UK distribution of its finished products to TDG and is on target to …

Austrian innovator turns to Rockwell for heat-pump project

Added: 17 Sep 2009

IDM-Energiesysteme specialises in technologies that use energy from the earth and sun. Its innovati…

UK aluminium industry in crisis

Added: 17 Sep 2009

Aluminium production in the UK is in crisis with a distinct possibility that manufacture will stop …

Nestlé opens UK distribution centre

Added: 16 Sep 2009

Eddie Stobart now operating from £7m facility at Bardon in Leicestershire. Companies started lookin…

Sensor 'badge' gives toxic-gas protection

Added: 16 Sep 2009

The sensor will work as a chemical equivalent to the radiation badges worn in some work places. Res…

'Sonhoe' project still on track

Added: 16 Sep 2009

Plans to establish a £2-billion crude oil processing plant in the Tees Valley remain. The plant is …

Political process kicks off

Added: 16 Sep 2009

Failure to understand industries that actually make things puts UK strengths at risk, CIA boss tell…

LyondellBasell to close UK polymer plant

Added: 15 Sep 2009

Given current market environment and future projections, Carrington plant is no longer economically…

Diageo advances Scottish biomass plant

Added: 15 Sep 2009

Due for completion in summer 2010, the bioenergy facility will generate renewable energy from the s…

Recession hits engineering recruitment, but is recovery in sight?

Added: 14 Sep 2009

IET’s annual Skills and Demand in Industry report shows that only 31% (compared to 63 per cent last…

AM Technology joins EU-funded flow chemistry project

Added: 14 Sep 2009

The ‘Pharmagen project’ is being coordinated by Serichim Srl and has other five partners; Flamma SA…

Yokogawa training system for Norway LNG plant

Added: 14 Sep 2009

Operator training system ordered by Skangass AS, a joint venture between the Norwegian utility Lyse…

Switch off for operator terminal market

Added: 14 Sep 2009

Global demand will decline by almost $300 million in 2009, IMS forecasts. The market, it said, was …

Rotork nets major valve contract in South China Sea

Added: 14 Sep 2009

Pneumatic valve actuators and packaged controls for a new offshore oil production platform located …

Autodesk software brings model-based design to mainstream plant design projects

Added: 11 Sep 2009

AutoCADPlant 3D extends line-up of Autodesk products built specifically for the plant design and en…

Alstom, Dow start carbon capture facility

Added: 11 Sep 2009

Pilot plant captures CO2 from coal-fired boiler at Dow facility in South Charleston. Uses 'advanced…

Managing on a shoestring

Added: 10 Sep 2009

The status of asset managers within process operations has risen steadily over recent years, driven…

Nuclear industry will need new blood

Added: 10 Sep 2009

Arrival of next generation of nuclear power plants will place a new set of demands on UK skills bas…

SCADA v MES

Added: 10 Sep 2009

SCADA is outgrowing its traditional role of coordinating plant floor processes, now offering capabi…

Nepic focuses on gains, not losses

Added: 10 Sep 2009

Plant closures by Dow Chemical Co, Croda International and (possibly) Artenius at Wilton, have rais…