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Process People Tracker June

Added: 9 Jun 2008

Grundfos Pumps ... Institution of Mechanical Engineers ... Adept Scientific ... Nuclear Engineering…

Technology Briefing June 2008

Added: 6 Jun 2008

Test efficiency ... Installing Fieldbus ... Refinery options ... Flexsys patent ... Siemens control…

Energy drives food & beverage sector

Added: 4 Jun 2008

Market for electric drives in the European food and beverage industries is expanding — and revenues…

Festo develops bionic jellyfish

Added: 4 Jun 2008

See the AquaJelly advanced automation concept in action at www.festo.com/cms/de_de/5889_6297.htm. …

REACH: Don't scramble to pre-register

Added: 4 Jun 2008

Companies advised to wait until July to pre-register. Meanwhile, Defra launches 12-week consultati…

Dow to register 800 substances in 10,000 REACH products

Added: 3 Jun 2008

European Chemicals Agency case study shows how chemicals major is gearing up to register substances…

Welsh Water study to reduce surface water flows in sewers

Added: 3 Jun 2008

MWH to carry out an £800,000 study with the aim of reducing the amount of surface water flows that …

Nickel alloys to raise coal-fired temperatures

Added: 3 Jun 2008

Could increase the steam temperature in boilers and turbines to 700°C, so cutting carbon emissions …

Skills Academy pilots Gold Standard

Added: 3 Jun 2008

Employers and relevant awarding bodies to develop a practical framework through which skills develo…

How lean is your UK site regime?

Added: 2 Jun 2008

It is well over a decade now since I was last responsible for the engineering and maintenance of a …

Business software sector targets process market

Added: 2 Jun 2008

These days it seems that every announcement of a new technology or business partnership in the auto…

Bridging process with the IT people

Added: 2 Jun 2008

For many manufacturing enterprises, serious investment in plant-wide information systems has only r…

Adventure or culture shock

Added: 2 Jun 2008

The language and concepts surrounding manufacturing IT and the drive to link ERP-type business soft…

Grangemouth picks up the pieces

Added: 2 Jun 2008

Ineos has signalled progress with proposals to end its pensions dispute with the Unite trade union.…

Fieldbus needs skills to grow

Added: 2 Jun 2008

Activity levels on systems involving FOUNDATION fieldbus and PROFIBUS techniques has increased sign…

UK meter facility goes with the flow

Added: 2 Jun 2008

In contrast to the many highly automated process facilities it supplies into, the Krohne Ltd flowme…

Biodiesel in crisis

Added: 2 Jun 2008

The fledgling UK biodiesel industry is being undermined by heavily subsidised US imports, which hav…

Chemicals suppliers facing REACH crux

Added: 2 Jun 2008

The European Commission has alerted tens of thousands of chemicals manufacturers and importers that…

Corus trebles output at Clydebridge works

Added: 2 Jun 2008

Gains are in part based on a 30% increase in throughput and improved efficiency through the install…

Rocky road to the industrial highway

Added: 2 Jun 2008

The market for industrial Ethernet products and technologies is set to grow rapidly over the next f…