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  • Too hot to handle – pub chain launches new dining experience with flaming food and fire marshalls

    Flaming Grill pubs, the experts in grilled food, has launched a new range of dishes to quite literally bring the flame from the grill to its customers, serving every meal on fire. Every diner must now sign a legal waiver upon ordering, with each delicious flame grilled delicacy brought to the table straight from the…


  • Crosta & Mollica announces major rebrand to Crust & Crumb

    Today, modern Italian food brand Crosta & Mollica unveils a major rebrand as it announces a name refresh to Crust & Crumb, the direct English translation of Crosta & Mollica. The name change follows the brand’s disappointment with consumers’ continuous tongue twisting attempts to pronounce its Italian name. Instead, Brits are commonly referring to the…


  • Industry 4.0 and beyond: realising Industrial IoT connectivity’s full potential

    The industrial horizon is amidst a significant metamorphosis, fuelled by the burgeoning deployment of Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) apparatus. This emerging web of interconnected devices heralds a new epoch of enhanced efficacy and productivity within operational technology (OT) networks across the manufacturing sphere. However, this digital renaissance ushers in a pivotal challenge: securing the…


  • UK’s only blue raspberry farm opens it’s doors and reveals secrets to growing ultra rare fruit

    Funkin Fruit Farm – the only farm in the UK to grow the rare Blue Raspberry – is opening its doors to eager fruit pickers for the very first time today. Spread across a two-hectare plot in the English countryside, Funkin Fruit Farm is offering the public the chance to pick its Blue Raspberries for…


  • MODEC Gets FEED Job for Shell’s Gato do Mato FPSO

    Apr 1, 2024 (Credit: MODEC) MODEC has secured the Front-End Engineering and Design (FEED) contract for a floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) system for Shell’s Gato do Mato development, offshore Brazil. Gato do Mato FPSO will be moored at a water depth of approximately 2,000 meters, some 250 kilometers off the coast of Brazil.…


  • FirstEnergy sells 30% stake in transmission subsidiary for .5bn

    Image by Couleur from Pixabay FirstEnergy announced it has completed the previously disclosed sale of an additional 30% ownership interest in its FirstEnergy Transmission (FET) subsidiary to Brookfield Super-Core Infrastructure Partners for $3.5 billion. The Ohio-headquartered electric utility company received $2.3 billion of cash proceeds at closing, with the remaining $1.2 billion in interest-bearing notes due from Brookfield, which are…


  • Why smart grids are essential to meeting the UK’s housing needs

    Dan Nicholls, Managing Director of SNRG Group While the Future Homes Standard (FHS) is a welcome roadmap for the future of decarbonised homes, explains Dan Nicholls of SNRG Group, it will not be realised without accompanying policy measures, which encourage the uptake of enablers like smart grids. At the end of 2023, the UK government…


  • Tomra Recycling unveils applications to differentiate food-grade from non-food-grade plastics

    Tomra’s GAIN technology – today rebranded GAINnext to pay tribute to the product’s significant evolution – resolves all of these challenges by further enhancing the sorting performance of the company’s Autosort units so they are capable of identifying objects that are hard and, in some cases, even impossible to classify using traditional optical waste sensors.…


  • Mitsui to Develop Vietnam Gas Field for 0 Million

    Mar 29, 2024 (Image: Mitsui & Co) Japanese trading house Mitsui & Co said on Friday it has reached a final investment decision to develop Vietnam’s Block B gas field, with its share of development cost of about $740 million. The project, 330 km (205 miles) off southwest Vietnam, will comprise a gas field and…


  • Discover cutting-edge automation and robotics technologies at Automation UK

    In less than three months’ time Automation UK will return to the CBS Arena in Coventry on 18-19 June. This event is recognised for bringing industrial automation and robotics to life. The wide spectrum of features in the show ensures it delivers something for everyone. This includes showcasing the very latest innovative technologies and solutions,…