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Dynamic simulation can accelerate APC payback

Added: 25 Mar 2008

How can an APC project be delivered as soon as possible after start-up?

British Sugar stirred by the challenges of ATEX/DSEAR

Added: 25 Mar 2008

British Sugar plc operates four sugar beet processing plants in the UK producing more than one mill…

Smarter and faster software

Added: 25 Mar 2008

A Norwegian company specialising in liquid handling systems and technology for the global oil & gas…

Data system takes the biscuit

Added: 25 Mar 2008

Ryvita, part of the Associated British Foods Group, has achieved a 90% reduction in manual inputs a…

Air knive helps Corus to cut costs

Added: 25 Mar 2008

new blower-powered Airknife moisture removal system installed on the five-stand mill at the Corus T…

Raising the quality bar

Added: 25 Mar 2008

European water regulations are increasing customer focus on quality and reliability of fluid handli…

I'm an employer, get me out of here

Added: 25 Mar 2008

In the March April edition of Process Engineering, Dr Stan Higgins of NEPIC gives the benefit of hi…

Foundation leads on fieldbus

Added: 25 Mar 2008

Foundation Fieldbus (FF) has a 68% share of the market for intelligent networks in the process indu…

Regulators stymie 'green' investment

Added: 25 Mar 2008

Chemical industry plans to invest in plants and process technologies that reduce emissions and impr…

Late chance for employers to reverse process skills decline

Added: 25 Mar 2008

The current skills shortage in the UK process industries sector - that is chemicals, pharmaceutical…

Will Cooper play safe with MTL?

Added: 25 Mar 2008

Texas-based Cooper Industries' £144-million acquisition of the MTL Instruments Group will require c…

Smarter ways to pay

Added: 25 Mar 2008

London - The process industries are under increasing pressure to improve their operations by instal…

Spin doctors weigh in

Added: 24 Mar 2008

Turbomachinery generally operates at high speeds, often generating huge levels of rotating mass wit…

AM is good for you

Added: 24 Mar 2008

London - Diageo is rolling out a new asset management programme across its production sites worldwi…

Fire at INEOS site in Germany

Added: 20 Mar 2008

Petrochemicals blaze was tackled by 600 firefighters with another 600 members of the emergency serv…

US chemical companies in largest ever cyber security exercise

Added: 20 Mar 2008

Department of Homeland Security’s Cyber Storm II to reveal important lessons at all levels of infor…

Shell details investment plans

Added: 19 Mar 2008

" We are creating new heartlands for Shell in a new energy landscape," van der Veer

BASF, SINOPEC in $900m expansion at Nanjing site

Added: 19 Mar 2008

Strategic downstream expansion to come on stream stepwise starting in 2008, cracker expansion plann…

INEOS Polyolefins expanding Grangemouth capacities

Added: 19 Mar 2008

Company plans to introduce swing capability on its 310 ktpa LLDPE plant to produce HDPE grades.

Nycomed moving API production to India

Added: 18 Mar 2008

JV to produce active pharmaceutical ingredients (API). Chemical production moving from Germany and …