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ABB and Dresser collaborate on ESD valves

ABB says it is to collaborate with Dresser Masoneilan on an integrated process to monitor, test and manage emergency shutdown valves during all operational conditions.

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Forklift thorough examination black hole could compromise truck safety

The current thorough examination inspection for forklift trucks does not place sufficient emphasis on checking the chain that controls a truck's lifting and lowering functions.

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Baxi Commercial donates boilers to St George’s Crypt charity

Baxi Commercial Division donated two high efficiency Potterton Commercial condensing boilers for the redevelopment of homeless charity base St George's Crypt.

Boilers
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Street CraneXpress launches condition monitoring service

Street CraneXpress has now introduced condition monitoring to its ISO 9001 accredited services.

Cranes
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BOC celebrates results of £60 million investment programme

BOC's new air separation unit (ASU) in Scunthorpe was formally opened today by local MP Nic Dakin and Dr Aldo Belloni, board member of BOC's parent firm, The Linde Group.

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British engineers to build world’s fastest motorbike

A team of British engineers will be in London this week to talk of their dream to build the world's fastest motorbike.

Apprenticeships
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Dounreay outlines future for decommissioned plant

Dounreay's clean-up contractor today set out how it will leave what it describes as "a cultural legacy of Britain's 20th century experiment with fast breeder nuclear reactors" after the site has been...

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EDP says goodbye to 1970s oil-fired power station

European energy operator EDP is set to begin a major decommissioning and demolition project, with the clearance of its 7-hectare power plant in Barreiro, Portugal.

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Recycling and Waste Management show opens in Birmingham this week

This week's Recycling & Waste Management (RWM) exhibition (14 to 16 September at the NEC) will showcase the UK's first recycling plant for disposable nappies, underground bin systems and technologies...

Energy Audits
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Independent inspection now key to oil and gas pipeline installations

The impact of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and Wednesday's report on the incident from BP, will result in pipeline installations coming under far greater scrutiny from regulators.

Pipeline Equipment
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Plant engineers push the importance of plant engineering

SOE IPlantE (the Institution of Plant engineers) is launching a brochure extolling the virtues of plant engineering.

Apprenticeships
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BP report points to chilling sequence of events on Deepwater Horizon

Halliburton, Transocean and others should shoulder some of the responsibility, alongside BP, for the Deepater Horizon explosion and fire that killed 11 and caused widespread pollution in the Gulf of...

Fire Protection