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Upturn, downturn

Added: 30 Oct 2008

Shrugging off months of dire warnings for the economy overall, pump and valve manufacturers, especi…

Catalysts, cars and best practice

Added: 30 Oct 2008

Johnson Matthey's site in Billingham is making big strides in the areas of overall equipment effect…

Skills the next "energy" crisis

Added: 30 Oct 2008

 

Today’s global energy crisis was preceded by years of warnings about our over reliance on fossil f…

Confidence key to wireless adoption

Added: 30 Oct 2008

UK process operators are keen to introduce and/or expand the use of wireless at their facilities, t…

E.ON plans major biomass plant

Added: 30 Oct 2008

Power generator E.ON plans to build a 150MW biomass power station at the Port of Bristol. The propo…

GSK stuck on 42T knowhow

Added: 30 Oct 2008

Product design and development consultancy 42 Technology and global pharma company GlaxoSmithKline …

Process could miss out in new golden age for engineering

Added: 30 Oct 2008

The promise of a high salary - as demonstrated by the recent IChemE survey (see below) - is clearly…

Pump maker claims Profibus first

Added: 30 Oct 2008

Watson-Marlow Bredel launches IP66 rated cased peristaltic pumps with certified Profibus DP network…

Cadbury removes sticky valve problem

Added: 30 Oct 2008

Problem with sticking solids handling valves eradicated, following investigation and design solutio…

BASF preparing for tougher trading environment

Added: 30 Oct 2008

Chemicals group braced for difficult trading conditions despite sales growth of 13% and earnings im…

Metal refiner Collini adds direct SCADA-SAP connection

Added: 29 Oct 2008

Direct SCADA-SAP connection at leading metal refiner Collini to ensure continuous process supervisi…

Knowledge gap costs food processors

Added: 29 Oct 2008

A recent industry survey by Mono Pumps has revealed that the UK's food and beverage manufacturers a…

AstraZeneca cuts instrumentation costs at Devon facility

Added: 28 Oct 2008

Georg Fischer instrumentation proves robust and reliable for AstraZeneca in Devon Instrumentati…

Hydrogen monitors for university project

Added: 27 Oct 2008

Bangor University in Wales is employing advanced hydrogen monitoring technology for an in-depth res…

Drax, Siemens to build biomass power plants

Added: 24 Oct 2008

Three new 300MW plants to deliver baseload capacity generation and will mean that Drax will be resp…

European Parliament 'doesn't care' about energy costs

Added: 24 Oct 2008

MEPs euphoric after voting through a series of proposals that will require power generators to pay …

Industry has energy to beat the crunch

Added: 23 Oct 2008

industry leaders continue to shrug off the doom and gloom and forecast continuing investment in cap…

IPS for world’s first hydrogen-fuelled power plant

Added: 23 Oct 2008

Enel selects Invensys to supply control and automation technology for the world’s first hydrogen-fu…

HERAEUS NOBLELIGHT LTD.

Added: 23 Oct 2008

A carbon infra-red heating system from Heraeus Noblelight is helping to ensure that Leyland trucks …

AMEC, Clough net Chevron Australia contract

Added: 23 Oct 2008

JV to provide engineering services for their oil production facilities at Barrow Island and Thevena…