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ScottishPower boss talks CCS to Unite, WWF

Added: 24 Jun 2009

ScottishPower chief executive Nick Horler has highlighted his company's efforts to develop carbon c…

BP orders GE flow meters for major refinery expansion project

Added: 24 Jun 2009

Devices will monitor 36 critical flow points for a new coker unit being built as part of a multi-bi…

Dow, Gazprom ink greenhouse gas pact

Added: 23 Jun 2009

"Dow products and technologies will have a channel to global oil and gas markets, and we will have …

Merged DBIS department must do the business

Added: 22 Jun 2009

London - The UK Government has merged its BERR and DIUS departments to create a new Department for …

Smart Alec

Added: 22 Jun 2009

 

London - There was a slightly embarrassed pause during a recent Fisher Marketing First Friday Club…

Humber project to deliver 5000 jobs

Added: 19 Jun 2009

Plans for what will be one of the biggest port related developments in the country—covering almost …

Schneider issues emergency stop warning

Added: 18 Jun 2009

Machine builders still using potentially dangerous non-trigger action devices as deadline for the n…

Kettle expanding with SPC

Added: 18 Jun 2009

Production of potato crisps backed by adoption of SPC methods to maintain stable cooking characteri…

Knauf upgrades compressed air system

Added: 18 Jun 2009

£10 million upgrade programme at rock mineral wool production facility has included the plant’s com…

EU motor efficiency rules might not go far enough

Added: 18 Jun 2009

ATEX motors excluded, and the upper limit for the IE classification is only 375kW, notes Marek Luka…

Process plant investment to rebound in 2010

Added: 18 Jun 2009

UK investment to decline by 2% in 2008/09 and again by 2% in 2009/10 before resuming a clear growth…

Workers unite behind carbon capture

Added: 18 Jun 2009

GMB energy secretary: “Carbon capture and storage needs to become a reality. Nations like China wil…

CEMEX plant hits alternative fuels record

Added: 16 Jun 2009

South Ferriby Cement Plant has replaced more than 74% of the fuel used to heat its cement kiln with…

Parker Domnick Hunter adds high purity water treatment

Added: 16 Jun 2009

Mains water is pre-treated by a pair of CarboSoft units to remove hardness and free chlorine prior …

Market watchers see light at end of tunnel

Added: 16 Jun 2009

Experts detect flickering but consistent signs of a recovery in the industrial sector. The pickup t…

Modular brakes for Anglo Platinum ball mill application

Added: 15 Jun 2009

Modular brakes are providing up to 35MNm of total braking torque on two 8m ball mills, which are pa…

Redundant call centre workers start process apprenticeships

Added: 15 Jun 2009

Laid off workers join Sembcorp UK as process technicians. Two-year adult apprenticeship programme i…

Magnetic treatment attracts fuel savings at Tensar

Added: 15 Jun 2009

Blackburn company cut energy usage by 6% and improved boiler efficiency by about the same level tho…

Compressor aids de-silting

Added: 15 Jun 2009

Aeration system equipment is being used to de-silt the Denver Sluice on the River Great Ouse, near …

Heinz trapz steam savings

Added: 12 Jun 2009

Wigan plant - the largest food factory in Europe - to cut energy usage by 4% through steam trap man…