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Microwave flow chemistry to "radically improve" drug development

Added: 18 Jan 2012

Cambridge, UK – Uniqsis and WaveCraft have agreed to jointly develop a new range of microwave-based…

Statoil targets four oil & gas production technologies

Added: 18 Jan 2012

Oslo – Statoil has identified four technologies as critical to its strategy to increase production …

Engineers turn destructive plant into valuable carbon

Added: 18 Jan 2012

Glasgow, UK – Researchers in Scotland and Cuba are ridding the Caribbean nation of a major ecologic…

Bayer centre targets isocyanate process advances

Added: 17 Jan 2012

Leverkusen, Germany – Bayer MaterialScience has commissioned a new Euro5-million technical center f…

Biochemical plants in chimneys

Added: 11 Jan 2012

?RWE Power and biotechnology company BRAIN are to expand their joint CO2 -to-chemicals research in …

Alcoa to cut global smelting capacity by 12%

Added: 9 Jan 2012

New York – Alcoa is to close or curtail around 531 kilotonnes per annum (ktpa), or 12% of its globa…

Cheese company adds pump, macerator at AD plant

Added: 4 Jan 2012

Börger’s installation for Carrigbyrne

BP taps Foster Wheeler to debottleneck Scottish terminal

Added: 22 Dec 2011

Reading, UK – BP Exploration Operating Co. Ltd has awarded Foster Wheeler an engineering, procureme…

Metso, Siemens to equip $3bn pulp plant

Added: 9 Dec 2011

Helsinki / São Paulo - Suzano Papel e Celulose is investing $3-billion (Euro2.3 billion) to establi…

Turkish refinery opts for Emerson wireless technology

Added: 9 Dec 2011

Izmir, Turkey – Turkey’s state-owned Tüpra? refinery in Izmir, has placed an order with Emerson Pro…

Russia fertiliser producer adds Honeywell simulation system

Added: 8 Dec 2011

London – Russia’s largest mineral fertilizer producer EuroChem is to equip five of its ammonia prod…

Oakwell orders 43 Litre Meter flowmeters for Dubai project

Added: 8 Dec 2011

London – Litre Meter has shipped 43 VFF positive displacement flowmeters to Singapore-based Oakwell…

Analyser helps cement maker Holcim to raise output and quality

Added: 6 Dec 2011

Malvern, UK:  Cement producer Holcim is using an on-line particle size analyser, from Malvern Instr…

Cisco doubles wireless standards

Added: 29 Nov 2011

Under a deal with Cisco Systems, Honeywell is offering a new wireless access point from Cisco withi…

Shell nears phosgene-free feedstock link-up with polycarbonate major

Added: 24 Nov 2011

Amsterdam - Shell is “very, very close” to commercialising a technology for the production of diphe…

Weir Group ups US shale gas position with $675m buy

Added: 24 Nov 2011

London – Weir Group PLC is to acquire Seaboard Holdings Inc, a Houston, Texas,-based supplier of we…

Automation industry event set for London

Added: 23 Nov 2011

London – Control & automation industry association GAMBICA and Intellect - a ’technology industry’ …

CBI plea after aluminium plant closure announcement

Added: 21 Nov 2011

London – UK business group the CBI has called for a new approach to environmental regulation in res…

Brazil biomass producer targets Europe

Added: 7 Nov 2011

São Luís, Brazil – Suzano Renewable Energy, part of the Suzano Pulp and Paper company, has recently…

Huntsman site revamp tops IChemE awards

Added: 7 Nov 2011

London – Huntsman Pigments has won the top prize at the IChemE 2011 Awards for a project that revam…