Lafarge Morocco is an equally-owned partnership between the Lafarge Group and SNI/ONA, Morocco's leading industrial group. Lafarge Morocco is the largest cement manufacturer in Morocco with a production capacity of 4.2million tonnes, excluding a planned increase at the Bouskoura site. Solvents such as acetone, methylethyl ketone and tetrahydrofuran are commonly used as reaction media and for extracting products in the pharmaceutical, speciality chemicals and fragrance industries. For various reasons, there is an increasing interest in recovering solvents, as well as in related tasks such as monitoring oxygen concentrations so as to minimise the use of purge gases. Getting expertise where it is needed in wastewater treatment is the goal of TELEMAC, a European project funded by the European Information Society Technologies (IST) programme. qqq In a report published on 10March, the UK-based Royal Academy of Engineering (RAE) reveals that electricity from offshore wind farms, currently the most viable renewable source, will cost at least twice as much as that from conventional sources. Following six years of detailed design and development, Ocean Power Delivery (OPD) has completed the build of the first full-scale Pelamis wave energy converter. prev