Cleaning the inside of giant storage tanks at refineries and bulk chemical storage facilities is set to get a whole lot easier, safer and cheaper, with the development of an innovative jet cleaning device.

Bulk materials handlers the world over are said to reap rewards following the announcement of a new CSIRO-owned spin-out company called Intalysis.

Advantech will be demonstrating its latest technology products at this year's CeBit exhibition in Sydney.

XeroCoat has received funding from enough investors to develop its innovative anti-fogging and anti-reflective coating technology.

Krohne Australia has formed a strategic alliance with Berthold technologies to complement its process instrumentation range for Australian mining and oil and gas industries

German mining company RWE Power has ordered 25 ABB AquaMaster electromagnetic water meters to help preserve groundwater based marshes and wetlands around its German coal mines.

The opening of Taiwan's utility market to independent power producers has generated greater competition, with more companies allowed to build power plants and offer services to the Taiwan Power Company (Taipower).

A new ceramic-based coating for steel and superalloys that prevents corrosion, oxidation, carburisation and sulfidation that commonly occur in gas, liquid, steam and other hostile environments has been developed by researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in the US.

A team of chemists and engineers at the University of Toronto in Canada has created a nanoscale material that could help satisfy society's never-ending hunger for smaller digital devices and cellphones, and could even lead to new methods for delivering medications via skin patches.

The process industry is being offered new opportunities and challenges a fresh round of submissions being called for the development of national industry Action Agendas.

Emerson Process Mangement has acquired UK firm Bristol Babcock from FKI for US$121 million. To be renamed Bristol, it becomes part of Emerson Process Management and adds measurement and control products, technologies, and services for oil, gas, power, water, and wastewater industries worldwide.

Rockwell Automation Australia will hold what it is calling ‘the industrial automation event of the year’, Automation on the Move (a free seminar and exhibition series) in May.

The classic stereotype of an engineer – a man who is brilliant at and passionate about technology, but not so good at dealing with people – bears little resemblance to actual engineers or their work, according to new research from the University of Edinburgh. These stereotypes hamper the engineering profession's efforts to recruit women, says Dr Wendy Faulkner who carried out the study.

German manufacturer BASF has made its innovations in the formulation and processing of Basotect to make it suitable for thermoforming.

Wonderware has achieved Gold Certified Partner level in the Microsoft Partner Program. The accomplishment reflects Invensys' continuing commitment to the Microsoft and Invensys alliance.