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Skills shortages despite recession

Added: 7 Jul 2009

UK is still having problems filling engineering positions despite the impact of the recession, acco…

Schneider warning triggers debate

Added: 7 Jul 2009

Ray Maybury of Fortress Interlocks believes Schneider's advice is misleading, particularly in relat…

Diageo under fire over cuts

Added: 7 Jul 2009

GMB to meet Diageo management in Stirling to discuss the 900 job loses announced by the company yes…

MACs buoy DCS markets

Added: 7 Jul 2009

Project services continue to grow due to the increasing popularity of the main automation contracto…

Linde secures $1bn cracker contract from Borouge

Added: 7 Jul 2009

Third ethane cracker in Abu Dhabi, one of the world’s largest, will have a capacity of 1500ktpa of …

Green shoots recede in spring

Added: 7 Jul 2009

UK production output fell 1.8% quarter-on-quarter period over the three months to end of May and wa…

Algae technologies continue to grow

Added: 7 Jul 2009

Developments in UK and US reflect increasing interest in the technology, which could reduce global …

Skills shortages persist despite recession

Added: 7 Jul 2009

Meanwhile, the UK is still having problems filling engineering positions despite the impact of the …

Green light for massive BASF project in China

Added: 7 Jul 2009

Chinese government approves $1.4bn expansion by joint venture, BASF-YPC Co., Ltd. (BYC), in Nanjing…

EU advances carbon capture plans

Added: 3 Jul 2009

New plans to finance the demonstration of carbon capture and geological storage (CCS) in cooperatio…

Engineering firm ignored safety guard rules for eight years

Added: 3 Jul 2009

"Crest Engineering took a deliberate decision to remove the safety guards on the machines despite r…

ARC tips emerging economies to revive global drives market

Added: 3 Jul 2009

Brazil, Russia, India, China and Eastern Europe will spring the market back to life, as increasing …

Honeywell acquiring German supplier of natural gas measuring products

Added: 2 Jul 2009

Regel + Messtechnik GmbH supplies natural gas measuring and control products, services and integrat…

Hymn numbers IEC61508 and IEC61511

Added: 2 Jul 2009

Industry safety standards association wants to get everyone singing off the same sheet

Axer Sulzer takes recessionary remedy

Added: 1 Jul 2009

Around 1,400 jobs will go from workforce of 12,726, with Europe and the Americas the main regions a…

Comment: A necessary evil?

Added: 1 Jul 2009

Fundamental flaws in the government’s strategy of building up mountains of national debt to prop up…

Breakthrough for apprenticeships campaigners?

Added: 30 Jun 2009

The Government looks set to offer support to process sector apprentices who lose their training dur…

Fatal injuries at record low

Added: 30 Jun 2009

Number of people killed at work in Britain has fallen to a record low, new figures from the Health …

Lindsey engineering workers go back to work

Added: 29 Jun 2009

Construction work on the HDS-3 hydrodesulphurisation unit at Total’s Lindsey Oil Refinery was set t…

Corus to cut over 2000 more jobs

Added: 26 Jun 2009

Job losses at Rotherham, Stocksbridge and other sites are additional to previously announced cuts i…