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Rolls-Royce Meets Forecast and Gets Dividend Boost
By Dan Lalor LONDON (Reuters UK) - Engine maker Rolls-Royce met forecasts with an 8 percent rise in first-half profit and promised more growth and a 10 percent dividend hike despite global economic conditions, lifting its shares on Thursday. "The youth, scale and geographical diversity of...
Tags: Dividend, Rolls-Royce, Financial Planning, Financial Accounting, Aerospace & Defense, Finance, Manufacturing, Oukbs
News items 2008-07-24
Rolls Royce Says Has New Engine Orders
LONDON (Reuters UK) - Engineer Rolls Royce Group RR said on Thursday it had received orders for new engines worth nearly $400 million (200 million pounds) from aircraft leasing companies AWAS and LCAL. Rolls said the Trent engines would be used to power the Airbus...
Tags: Aircraft, Rolls-Royce, Aerospace & Defense, Manufacturing, Boeing Co., Oukbs
News items 2008-07-17
Rotor Report
The Rolls-Royce Turbomeca RRTM RTM322 engine has been selected by the Royal Air Force of Oman RAFO to power its new fleet of twin-engined NH Industries NHI NH90 multi-role helicopters. The RAFO has ordered 20 Tactical Trooplift Helicopter TTH variants of the NH90 aircraft. The RTM322, selected by 90 per...
Tags: Aerospace & Defense, Rolls-Royce, aircraft
White papers 2004-10-01
Going Vertical: Developing a Short Take-Off, Vertical Landing System
This paper discusses and provides details about a new system used in the aircraft manufacturing. Rolls-Royce, the company responsible for the unique propulsion system that enables the Harrier to rise or descend vertically, is developing the next generation of vertical lift. The Rolls-Royce Lift System creates a STOVL-capable aircraft without...
Tags: Aerospace & Defense, Rolls-Royce, aircraft, JavaServer Faces
White papers 2004-08-18
Broadened Horizons
Rolls-Royce's budget for training and educating its worldwide workforce is more than £30m a year. Some 4,000 of its 23,000 UK employees are based at its Bristol plant. To rise to the top of such a large company, people have to become experts in all aspects of leadership, from motivating...
Tags: Reed Elsevier Inc., Rolls-Royce, Workforce Management, Leadership, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Management
White papers 2004-03-01
RB211 Gas Turbines: For Oil and Gas Applications
The RB211 gas turbine package matches a Rolls-Royce gas generator to either a Cooper-Bessemer RT56, RT62 or RT61 power turbine. Auxiliaries such as intake air filtration, acoustics, lubrication, starting and wash systems are all part of the Rolls-Royce scope of supply. A primary factor in the success of the industrial...
Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Rolls-Royce, turbine, acoustics, project management
White papers 2004-02-25
The Future of Chemical and Petrochemical Manufacturing
Over much of the twentieth century, the chemicals and petrochemical industry was one of the success stories of manufacturing. Although now in decline, it is still one of the country's largest export industries. There are major pressures for change and several exciting technological advances made in recent years open up...
Tags: Strategy, Rolls-Royce, manufacturing, chemicals, industry
White papers 2004-02-23
Power for the People
Concern about energy supply frequently attracts enormous interest and front-page headlines; yet when resources appear plentiful; the issue can be ignored for months or years. The supply of energy is determined at various times by the availability of fossil fuels, or by environmental pollution constraints such as acid gas emissions,...
Tags: Rolls-Royce, pollution, fossil fuel, carbon dioxide
White papers 2004-02-20
Sulphur Poisoning of the Active Materials Used in SOFCS
At the outset the project had a number of objectives each of which were crucial in the development of the Rolls-Royce Integrated Planar Solid Oxide Fuel Cell (IP-SOFC) concept and in bringing it to a state of readiness for field trial demonstrations. Both the reforming material and the fuel cell...
Tags: Fuel cells, Rolls-Royce, fuel cell, natural gas
White papers 2004-01-23
Scale-Up of the IP-SOFC to Multi-Kilowatt Levels
This paper summarizes work in the project 'Scale up of the IP-SOFC to Multi-Kilowatt Level', which ran from 1st April 2000 to 30th September 2003. The project followed on from previous studies that have been conducted at Rolls-Royce into the development of the Integrated Planar Solid Oxide Fuel Cell (IP-SOFC)...
Tags: Rolls-Royce
White papers 2004-01-23
Corporate Venturing - The Rolls-Royce Model
Rolls-Royce had previously become involved in Corporate Venturing in the late 80s and early 90s with what many might view as some success. With a dedicated team of three or four they had achieved a revenue from licensing of several million Pounds a year. However, in the bearish mood of...
Tags: Corporate Venturing, Rolls-Royce, Investment, Finance
White papers 2003-12-22
Rolls-Royce: Pipeline Centrifugal Compressors
Engineered for peak efficiencies, the Rolls-Royce line of compressors is used on most natural gas pipeline systems worldwide. Based on recent advances in fluid dynamics, the RFA36 pipeline compressor delivers field-proven efficiencies of up to 91%. Rolls-Royce also offers conventional beam style pipeline compressors which can accommodate up to five...
Tags: Rolls-Royce
White papers 2003-12-18
The Industrial Trent 50-60MW Gas Turbine: For Power Generation and Mechanical Drives
The Rolls-Royce Industrial Trent is the most advanced aero-derivative gas turbine available today. Delivering up to 58MW of electric power in simple cycle service, at 42 per cent efficiency, the Trent has established a new benchmark for fuel economy and cost savings. It also offers operators fast delivery and installation...
Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Rolls-Royce, turbine, power generation, natural gas, cost savings, transportation, performance
White papers 2003-11-27
The Industrial Trent 60 (Wet Low Emissions) Gas Turbine: For Power Generation
This paper provides details about the Industrial Trent Gas Turbine. The Industrial Trent gas turbine is a three spool design based on the successful family of RB211 Aero and Industrial engines. The Rolls-Royce Industrial Trent is the most advanced aero-derivative gas turbine for electrical power generation available today. Delivering up...
Tags: Rolls-Royce, power generation, turbine, cost savings, performance
White papers 2003-11-27
Centrifugal Compressors: For Natural Gas Compression
The RFA36 is the first in a more efficient generation of high-flow centrifugal compressors. With field-proven efficiencies of up to 91 percent, the RFA can save hundreds of thousands of dollars annually in energy costs compared to conventional pipeline compressors of similar capacity. This outstanding performance is achieved through design...
Tags: Rolls-Royce, natural gas, performance
White papers 2003-09-22
En-Tronic Controls
The efficient operation of production assets can determine competitiveness and profitability in the energy industry. The key to success lies in maximizing production and reliability while minimizing costs. The solution is more than simply hardware. While others may be selling a product, our control expertise is the solution. At the...
Tags: Rolls-Royce, hardware
White papers 2003-09-22
En-Tronic FT-55 Specifications: Rugged, High Performance, Purpose-Built PLC
The FT-55 system is an open architecture, programmable logic controller PLC designed specifically to control rotating/reciprocating machinery and associated process functions. The system is designed with open industry standards for hardware, software and data communications. The control is programmed in a Windows environment utilizing IEC 61131-3 structured text programming language...
Tags: Rolls-Royce, I/O, programming language, industry standard, high-performance, programming, environment, hardware, industry, software
White papers 2003-09-22
ERM at Rolls-Royce
Risk management is an essential function at Rolls-Royce. The Rolls-Royce board has established a structured approach to risk management. Risks are formally identified and recorded in a corporate risk register, which is reviewed and updated on a regular basis. The article summarizes Rolls-Royce’s risk management strategies. Rolls-Royce is involved in...
Tags: Financial Planning, Strategy, Financial services, SECURITY, Aerospace & Defense, Financial accounting, Rolls-Royce, register, risk management, financial instrument, Porter five forces, ERM, financial market, aerospace, aircraft, financial, board
White papers 2003-06-01
RB211 Projects in Power Generation: Fafen Energia, Brazil
This paper provides details on power generation in South America. The Fafen Energia power station located in the heart of the largest petrochemical facility in South America is a combined cycle cogeneration power plant powered by Rolls-Royce gas turbines. The plant configuration chosen provides high reliability for the supply of...
Tags: Rolls-Royce, power generation, South America, turbine
White papers 2003-02-20
Dry Low Emissions (DLE) Combustion Systems
As its name suggests, DLE is a dry solution to NOx and CO problems, achieved without the injection of either water or steam. Significantly, not only can the DLE system be fitted to new generating sets and mechanical drive units but it also can be retrofitted to existing units, many...
Tags: Rolls-Royce
White papers 2003-02-07
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