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A-Gas Electronic Materials has officially opened its new 20,000ft2 headquarters in Rugby, Warwickshire.

Valve safety interlocking specialist Smith Flow Control (SFC) has celebrated 30 years of protecting people and assets at process plants worldwide.

Kent Masters, former CEO of Foster Wheeler and current non-exec Director of AMEC Foster Wheeler, will be the opening keynote speaker for gasworld’s second Europe Industrial Gas Conference – which takes place in Budapest, Hungary, this May.

Bestobell Marine has secured two new high profile contracts for its cryogenic globe and check valves to be installed for use in LNG reliquefaction – which is a company first.

The new Explosives Regulations 2014 (ER 2014) and the Acetylene Safety (England and Wales and Scotland) Regulations 2014 (ASR 2014) came into force in November 2014.

A rapidly changing outlook ensues in the European market in 2015, as twists and turns continue to take shape in the region.

Business Minister Matthew Hancock has announced that seven new hydrogen projects have been given the go ahead thanks to an investment of £6.6m.

Various dynamics in the global LNG business mean that an influx of LNG into Northwest Europe is not expected this summer, according to a new Thomson Reuters LNG Outlook report.

Projects that will bring fuel cells into van fleets, develop high efficiency transmissions, and create the next generation of electric and hybrid buses in the UK have this week received a fresh funding boost.

When Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osbourne last week revealed his final Budget before May’s UK general election, he claimed Britain was ‘walking tall again’ after five years of austerity.