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Total Petrochemicals UK polystyrene manufacturing site comes down

Total Petrochemicals UK is using specialist decommissioning, and demolition consultancy RVA Group to oversee and co-ordinate the dismantling of its polystyrene manufacturing site close to the centre...

Plant Refurbishing/Remanufacture
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Biogas production safety turns on oxygen analyzer

A unnamed Scandinavian biogas producer has selected Michell Instruments' analysers to monitor oxygen levels for safety and quality at two sites.

Gas Analyses
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Schaeffler takes Best Company award 2013 for apprentice training

Schaeffler (UK) has won Best Company' in the Pathway to Apprenticeship (PtA) Awards 2013, organised by the Welsh Government, SEMTA and further education colleges.

Apprenticeships
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Risk-based engineering design would cut work-related deaths

Steps to promote good engineering design specifically aimed at cutting death, injury and disease in Britain's workplaces, are outlined in a policy paper published yesterday (10 December 2013) by the...

Occupational Health
Features

Engineering revival needs new partnership

When it comes to boosting engineering skills, it's been a busy couple of months for the Coalition.

Engineering Competence/Skills
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Van Beest and Hoist UK pick up LEEA Innovation Awards at LiftEx 2013

Van Beest and Hoist UK were the winners in the LEEA (Lifting Equipment Engineers Association) Innovation Awards, held at last month's (November 20133) overhead lifting industry exhibition LiftEx 2013....

Manual Handling
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McCain’s cuts refrigeration costs with low harmonic drives

McCain Food's plant at Whittlesey, Peterborough, has reduced its site load from 7 MW to 6 MW, following installation of new refrigeration plant powered by ABB low harmonic variable-speed drives.

Compressors
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Al Zour refinery selects Honeywell for system automation

Kuwait National Petroleum Company has contracted with Honeywell to provide the integrated control and safety system (ICSS) for its new 615,000 barrel-a-day Al Zour refinery complex to be built in...

Process Management Systems
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Biogas desulphurisation cuts costs at Cory AD plant

Commissioning of a microbiological desulphurisation system at the Cory Waste Management site, in Weston-super-Mare, is the culmination of collaboration between Uniflare, the Warwickshire-based...

Biofuel
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Doosan receives the safety sword award

Doosan Babcock and Doosan Škoda Power have together won the Sword of Honour from the British Safety Council.

Occupational Health
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LEEA launches overhead lifting equipment training

LEEA (the Lifting Equipment Engineers Association) has launched two hands-on training courses covering the thorough examination of electric overhead travelling and portal cranes, as well as runways...

Manual Handling
News

Specialist steel is on track for Holme tunnel

Network Rail is currently carrying out major engineering work to strengthen and repair the 250m long Holme Tunnel, between Hebden Bridge and Burnley – using unusual fabricated structural steel arches....

Plant Refurbishing/Remanufacture