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Kingspan Environmental’s SonicSignalman

Kingspan Environmental’s SonicSignalman electronic oil-level monitoring system now has a NEW SMS feature, allowing oil companies to send text messages to end-users. The SonicSignalman ...

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Kan’to installation puts Finol in control

Kan’to Instruments has recently completed a major installation for Finol Oil, one of the leading lubricant suppliers in Ireland Dimitri Papaioannou, managing director of ...

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Dunraven’s Apollo Smart gets smarter

Free software updates have been introduced for Dunraven’s Apollo Smart heating oil energy monitor. “There’s nothing worse than buying technology today, only to ...

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Tasca acquisition fuels further growth

Wakefield-based tanker manufacturer, Tasca Tankers is on track for further expansion after acquiring the business and assets of Maidment Tankers. “It was with regret that ...

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IFC Inflow – 25th anniversary

IFC Inflow celebrates its 25th anniversary this year. Founded in 1987 as Industrial Flow Control Ltd, primarily to sell tanker loading and process metering equipment, the ...

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Emco Wheaton – Konnect loading arms

Konnect, a new range of value for money loading arms, developed to handle the safe transfer of petroleum products to and from road and rail ...

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Alpeco – Intake Cabinet

Alpeco has launched its latest range of MF400 and MF800 truck metering systems. The new multifunctional two and three inch systems see the original DMX ...

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Showcasing oil heating’s future

There are two million off-grid homes in the UK and Ireland.  Over the next 20 years, these homes will slowly but surely need to decarbonise. ...

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Waste oil – where are we in 2011

Roger Creswell, director of the Oil Recycling Association (ORA) writes: “Never far from the environmental scene, and despite its wide utility, oil is a word ...

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Biofuels – an uncertain future

In December 2009, as the legislative framework shaping biofuels was about to change, FON reported on problems and issues affecting the industry. Two years on, we ...

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Future energy – a vital topic

Now chairman of Climate Change Capital, Vivienne Cox, who retired from BP in 2009 after 28 years, was guest speaker in the Vital Topics series at the ...

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Morrow Fuels – goes the extra mile

Next year, the Morrow family celebrates 100 years of oil retailing in Lisburn, Northern Ireland. And throughout the decades, the business, which eventually became Morrow Fuels, ...

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Thompson Fuels – providing service with a smile

With a company slogan, “more smiles per gallon”, Northern Ireland based Thompson Fuels has established a reputation as a happy and helpful team, willing to ...

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Doherty Oils – fail to plan, plan to fail

Last winter’s weather conditions throughout the island of Ireland were unprecedented with sudden and long-lasting frozen spells – accompanied by thick snow and treacherous road ...

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BP – making a wholesale commitment

As majors continue to withdraw from the downstream market, Fuel Oil News was keen to quiz BP about its position within the UK’s wholesale ...

Analysis

Greenergy – liquid problem solving

Founded in 1993 by Andrew Owens, Greenergy is now both a manufacturer and a terminal operator with a ‘hugely productive’ supply chain.  The company sold 9.9 ...

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Prax – a fast track wholesaler

Weybridge-based Prax Petroleum has been in existence for 10 years.  In less than a decade, the company has risen to become one of the largest independent ...