“The challenges for using new, fibre-based materials in the automotive sector are very complex,” explains Dr. Timo Hammer, Head of the Bioservice Team at the Hohenstein Institute in Bönnigheim, Germany. Given the variety ...
Today we have the announcement by DECC that EdF will construct the first of the new generation of nuclear plants in the UK. Should we welcome this decision? The contract for this project will provide an electricity price of ...
Tags: Nuclear Power, Energy
Sembcorp Marine's Jurong Shipyard to build a second semi-submersible well intervention rig at US$346 million for Helix Energy Solutions Thursday, Sep 12, 2013 Sembcorp Marine's subsidiary Jurong Shipyard has secured a US$346 million ...
Tags: Transportation, Service
Keppel to build fifth accommodation semi for Floatel at about US$280 million Wednesday, Aug 21, 2013 Keppel FELS Limited (Keppel FELS) has been awarded a contract worth about US$280 million by Floatel International Ltd (Floatel), to build ...
Tags: Transportation, Service
Shale gas production in the UK could boost tax revenues and improve the nation's trade balance, but is unlikely to reduce gas prices, and is no short-term fix for national energy needs, according to Howard Rogers of the Oxford Institute for ...
A new publication from Rockwell Automation looks at the principles and standards relating to safety in process applications and discusses how to implement effective solutions. Process Safebook 1 – Functional Safety in the Process ...
Thousands of projects to purify drinking water for municipalities are in planning and construction. Most of these projects are to replace plants as old as one hundred years. The number of projects generated by demand growth is ...
Tags: Water Treatment, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
Colfax Fluid Handling has been awarded a contract as the exclusive supplier of hydraulic pumps for a ship capable of lifting the topside structures from offshore platforms. With a lifting capacity of up to 48,000 t, the ship will remove ...
Plastic closures and containers manufacturer Portola Packaging's North American plants have reduced energy usage by almost 30%. Over the past three years, the company also recycled about nine million pounds of material. Portola is ...
Tags: Portola Packaging, Packaging
May 1, 2013 - Ontario’s Ministry of Labour (MoL) reports Algoma Tubes Inc.—a manufacturer of steel pipe products based in Whitehorse, Yukon—has been fined $70,000 for a violation of the Occupational Health & Safety Act ...
US-based software company Acsis has introduced the new ‘Serialization in a Box’ solution for pharma industry that identifies, applies and captures the data needed for compliance with California’s upcoming 2015 e-pedigree ...
In spite of difficult market conditions in its core fiber business, the Lenzing Group succeeded in achieving the second-best business result in its history in the 2012 financial year. This can be attributed to new record fiber sales volumes ...
Tags: Textile, Textile Industry
As previously communicated, in the face of increasingly difficult domestic trading conditions for its soda ash business and increasing costs, Penrice Soda Holdings Limited has decided to close soda ash production at its Osborne, Adelaide ...
Tags: Penrice, Soda Ash, SASS Victoria
UK-based designer of protective containers Croft Associates has started production of its new Safstore range of robust shielded packages for the storage, transport and final disposal of Intermediate Level Radioactive Waste (ILW). ...
At the opening ceremony of this year’s CeBit trade show, Tom Enders, CEO, EADS, presented a futuristic Mars Rover, which EADS subsidiary Astrium is working on with the European Space Agency (ESA). However, the main point he made was ...
Tags: EADS, CEO, Greater Aerospace Innovation