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Carbon nanotubes to storm flame retardants market

Added: 23 Mar 2009

CNTs could soon become an affordable and highly effective flame retardant materials, according to F…

E.ON boss demands more support for carbon capture and storage

Added: 23 Mar 2009

UK boss wants clear financial incentives as E.ON starts field work to identify potential carbon dio…

Total facing £750m damages bill following Buncefield ruling

Added: 20 Mar 2009

French oil company solely liable High Court rules in dispute between Total and Chevron over who was…

Cornwall kaolin producer cuts fuel bill

Added: 19 Mar 2009

Goonvean achieves Significant reduction in fuel consumption through the use of a magnetic fuel trea…

Bid to save Fox's biscuit factory

Added: 19 Mar 2009

Workers at Uttoxeter plant to present the company's management with a petition containing over 6,00…

Developers unveil plans for £200m waste-to-energy facility

Added: 19 Mar 2009

Plans have been revealed for a £200-million energy-from-waste plant in Doncaster that, claims its d…

Anger over foreign worker wage rates on power plant project

Added: 19 Mar 2009

Aubcontractor for Alstom at Isle of Grain project paying Polish worker £4 an hour less that the min…

FT reactor to produce biofuels from waste

Added: 19 Mar 2009

Fischer-Tropsch unit uses a catalyst developed by Oxford Catalysts,designed by microchannel reactor…

Big bag filler for Belgian nanotube facility

Added: 18 Mar 2009

To meet the Nanocyl requirement of a weighing resolution accuracy of +/-20g, Spiroflow engineers ad…

Arkema, HTE conclude catalysis research

Added: 17 Mar 2009

Performance screening of catalysts for conversion reactions of glycerol, a biodiesel byproduct deri…

Shire selects Honeywell technologies for new biotech facility

Added: 16 Mar 2009

Shire HGT will use a number of Honeywell control technolgies on manufacturing processes at its new …

Big audience expected at first National Skills Conference

Added: 16 Mar 2009

Skills Academy event will include keynote addresses by Tom Crotty, CEO, INEOS Olefins and Polymers …

Engineers focus on ceramics sintering technique

Added: 15 Mar 2009

University engineers have invented a technique in the manufacture of ceramics that has the potentia…

New UK coal-fired plant on the back burner

Added: 13 Mar 2009

Kingsnorth: Government extends its decision-making process regarding whether or not to approve E.ON…

Attention to detail key in valve actuation

Added: 13 Mar 2009

Actuators provide automatic control by physically opening and closing valves in response to a signa…

Wireless signals stronger

Added: 12 Mar 2009

Wireless remains a "hot" topic at the moment, but how confident are process engineers when it comes…

Storm brewing after Lindsey

Added: 12 Mar 2009

More labour unrest at power station developments at Staythorpe, Nottinghamshire and the Isle of Gra…

Care is needed for cooling tower fans

Added: 12 Mar 2009

At first sight, a cooling tower fan is straightforward in its design, being essentially an axial fa…

Geometric process control moves into batch processing

Added: 12 Mar 2009

Geometric Process Control (GPC) is a new technology for monitoring and exploring process data throu…

A very British dispute

Added: 12 Mar 2009

The Lindsey Oil Refinery (LOR) dispute not only highlighted issues concerning the introduction of f…