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John Smith’s brewery adds high flow water filtration

Added: 10 Nov 2008

System installed at brewery in Tadcaster for pre-RO water filtering duty has cut maintenance time i…

Watson-Marlow Pumps acquires PAK Machinery

Added: 10 Nov 2008

Purchase of UK distributor follows acquisition of Danish company Flexicon earlier this year. Deal a…

Growth for valves, actuators

Added: 10 Nov 2008

Demand from various process industries, government regulations on emission control and the need for…

Fraunhofer sensor converts fluids energy into electricity

Added: 10 Nov 2008

The new fluidic energy transducer could enable sensors to supply themselves with energy in future. …

Corus opens new facilities in Wales

Added: 10 Nov 2008

Facilities at Shotton site in North Wales feature new production line, which is claimed to be the m…

Fluor inks automation & control deal with Emerson

Added: 10 Nov 2008

Preferred supplier deal for automation and control instrumentation and services. Contract covers th…

Cherry Valley ducks energy costs

Added: 10 Nov 2008

UK largest producer has reduced its energy costs by £25,000 a year after installing ABB standard dr…

Contractors still unsure about MSC rules

Added: 7 Nov 2008

One in seven contractors are at risk following Managed Service Company (MSC) legislation 18 months …

Unilever audits pump costs at ice cream factory

Added: 7 Nov 2008

Check up finds existing 37kW pumps costing more than £16k per annum to operate, while a fixed-speed…

Aesica speeds new pharma production with automation update

Added: 6 Nov 2008

Faster introduction of new products with ABB automation system purchased by Cramlington-based Aesic…

British Energy saves with condition monitoring

Added: 6 Nov 2008

Adept Scientific helps British Energy to save money and improve the reliability and flexibility of …

Arla dairy standardises level measuring

Added: 5 Nov 2008

Arla Foods installs Baumer measuring devices for level control as part of expansion at Danish facil…

CenFRA targets brewing and soft drinks sectors

Added: 5 Nov 2008

Centre for Food Robotics and Automationhas helped the Black Sheep Brewery in North Yorkshire to imp…

Environment Agency appoints Leinster as chief executive

Added: 4 Nov 2008

Leinster , who joined the Environment Agency in 1998, has been acting chief executive since May 200…

Welding industry lags on green issues

Added: 3 Nov 2008

Andrew Robinson of Arc Energy Resources, discusses the importance of environmental awareness and th…

Attitudes to wireless

Added: 30 Oct 2008

Caution and enthusiasm emerge in near equal measure from the Process Engineering "Attitudes to Wire…

OEE goes paper-free

Added: 30 Oct 2008

Overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) is widely used as a key performance indicator (KPI) by proces…

Labour of loss

Added: 30 Oct 2008

US group CB&I (Chicago Bridge & Iron Co.) expects to be hit by pre-tax charges of around $317 milli…

Cashing in on UK strengths in R&D

Added: 30 Oct 2008

Nigel Perry has much explaining to do in his role as chief executive of the Centre for Process Inno…

Grants going for process projects

Added: 30 Oct 2008

To do a project or not is a question that presents itself often enough to process operators to forc…