Sunday, 09 June 2013 22:16
Automation project lifts capacity at Coca Cola
By introducing standardised automation, Coca Cola Enterprises (CCE) has ramped up the annual capacity of its production lines in Sidcup, UK by 20 million crates whilst simultaneously driving down costs. The project is part of a Europe-wide strategy involving Siemens.The…
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Wednesday, 05 June 2013 18:59
Leatherhead opens DirtyLab
The impact of humidity and temperature on the safety of food manufacturing processes is a key focus of a newly opened research faciloity at Leatherhead Food Research (LFR). Pathogen Pilot Plant, otherwise known as DirtyLab. will allow LFR to deliberately…
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Monday, 03 June 2013 18:40
IIggesund Paperboard invests in biofuel
In March Iggesund Paperboard’s new biomass CHP plant in Workington, England came online. The company’s paperboard mill has thereby switched its energy source from fossil natural gas to biomass. The new biomass boiler involves an annual reduction of fossil carbon…
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Monday, 03 June 2013 11:48
Metso valves for desert project
Metso is to supply state-of-the-art control and on/off valves to the Sierra Gorda copper/molybdenum mining project which is currently under construction in the Atacama Desert in Antofagasta region, North of Chile. Sierra Gorda Sociedad Contractual Minera (SCM) requires the valves…
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Thursday, 16 May 2013 21:04
Aker in world-first CO2 capture tests for cement industry
Aker Solutions has won a contract to test and study the capture of carbon dioxide from flue gas emitted by the cement industry. The award from Norcem, in cooperation with the European Cement Research Academy (ECRA) marks the first time…
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Tuesday, 07 May 2013 22:15
Lorien helps Adams Foods transfer
Adams Foods Ltd recently engaged Lorien Engineering Solutions to relocate its packing lines from Wincanton in Somerset to Leek, Staffordshire. The project involved transferring all blended cheese production lines to a new, purpose-built blended cheese and innovation centre at the…
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Thursday, 02 May 2013 17:23
Rowecord goes into administration
Accountancy firm Grant Thornton’s advisory team has been appointed administrators to Wales-based Rowecord Engineering Limited, which went into administration with the potential loss of several hundred jobs. Alistair Wardell, senior partner at the Wales office of Grant Thornton in Cardiff,…
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Wednesday, 01 May 2013 15:18
UK heat exchanger contracts
HRS Heat Exchangers has won two significant orders involving sludge and waste food applications for an unnamed environmental company in the UK. One order involves the use of HRS' double-tube heat exchangers for the cooling of sewage sludge after a…
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Wednesday, 01 May 2013 15:15
Diageo distillery installs bio-energy plant
Diageo has just completed a £105m investment program at its Cameronbridge distillery, the largest grain distillery in Scotland. The improvement plan has included the installation of a £65m bio-energy plant – a project in which Veolia and BCI Process were…
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Monday, 22 April 2013 11:17
Wilkins set for new jam factory
Colchester Borough Council has approved Wilkin and Sons' planned construction of a new Tiptree jam factory in the village of Tiptree. "Trying to balance the needs of a growing business with the best interests of a village has not been…
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Friday, 07 September 2012 17:43
£2.4m package sets up Gilbert's Foods to expand
Lancashire food supplier Gilbert's Foods is looking to expand its export business after recently securing a £2.4 million funding package from HSBC. The package includes a £2-million invoice finance line and a £400,000 import finance facility which will provide working…
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