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UKIFDA EXPO 2024 a huge success
...reflected the sentiment at EXPO this year. Already, we are receiving positive feedback, especially from exhibitors regarding the quality of the leads gained. “I’d like to thank all of the...
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Future fuel ready tanker is Fuel Oil News Tanker of the Year
...right solution for its customers. Investing for the future Janet Kettlewell, co-owner and director at Kettlewell Fuels said: “The impact of climate change and the need for us all to...
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Growing FAST
...and when managing director Neil Ryding arrived that July, Bob took up the position of chairman. Working with Shropshire County Council, FAST now offers work placements to young people, some...
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Oil boilers – no to scrappage scheme
...the government announced its proposal to slash the feed-in tariff rates for solar PV by as much as 87% from January 2016 – a move the solar industry has widely...
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XPO Logistics holds fifth annual UK Female Driver Forum
...is at the heart of XPO’s workplace equality and diversity values. It also hosted an interactive session for female drivers to provide operational feedback to help the company best support...
Analysis
Mabanaft – majoring in innovative independence
After serving the majority of his years in the industry working for oil majors, Mark Rolph joined Mabanaft in 2008, becoming the company’s managing director later that year. As the...
Interview
LCM Environmental launches initiatives to support staff well-being
...general well-being. Claudia Weeks, content editor at Fuel Oil News, spoke with Richard Wallace, managing director, and the team at LCM to find out more about their plans for staff...
Interview
A Day in the Life… Jenny Sweatman
...soon as I have made it downstairs, the first order of the day is a second coffee and then to feed the cats, as they are normally shouting at me...
Interview
Taking a different approach
...managing director of online distributor www.ValueOils.com based in County Antrim. “Customers are trying to extract the best price for everything – including their oil – and at the same time...
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Embracing change over 50 years
...was a travelling salesman working for an animal feed company. Wishing to be self-employed, he spotted an opportunity to enter the emerging oil market with an offering more tailored to...
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Making light work of heavy oil
...6api, turning it into a cleaner, thinner oil for further refining or making into plastic feedstock. The process also thins out very thick crude enabling it to be pumped through...
Analysis
Harvest Energy – change, challenge and opportunity
...supply – fundamental in biofuel production.” The company is also involved in a project being taken forward by the University of Durham to develop biofuels feedstock from algae. ...
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JET – a new contemporary look
...that is competitive in the market,” said Mary Wolf, managing director UK marketing at Phillips 66. “We’ve listened to the consumer, and to our dealers and have developed a new...
Analysis
Greenergy – liquid problem solving
...the price and quality right, but we also need to demonstrate provenance. We even have to know the field or waste source where the bio feedstock came from!” So are...
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The need for telematics
...road users. Clugston Distribution Services has fitted the product to over 70 of its vehicles. CMS Supatrak managing director, Jason Airey, said: “The system ensures that if a driver was...
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Getting warmer in the community
...is a fact of life.” Changing buying and supplying behaviour Currently there are over 9000 households and businesses buying oil through CBL. Feedback from satisfied customers has been extremely encouraging....
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£4.4m waste-to-hydrogen funding will deliver real-world testing of technological innovation
...of life waste or low-grade biomass as the feedstock to produce syngas and subsequently hydrogen. An independent assessment of its greenhouse gas emissions has overall capture savings of over 25,000...
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Delivering what customers value
Mabanaft’s 2017 customer survey has just been completed and yet again the company is delighted with the results. They said that survey was well received and feedback has been both...