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UK officials seize counterfeit SKF bearings
Added: 14 Mar 2011
London – Trading Standards officers have seized around one tonne of counterfeit SKF bearings in a 9…

Texan group buys Chevron Pembroke refinery
Added: 14 Mar 2011
Pembroke, UK – Valero Energy Corp. of San Antonio, Texas, is to acquire Chevron’s Pembroke refinery…

RWE, BASF, Linde in clean coal power advance
Added: 11 Mar 2011
Ludwigshafen, Germany – RWE Power, BASF and Linde have advanced a CO2 scrubbing solvent, which they…

HFG awarded Centrica York platform contract
Added: 11 Mar 2011
Zwijndrecht, The Netherlands - Heerema Hartlepool, part of Heerema Fabrication Group (HFG), has bee…

Nuclear Island gets funding go-ahead
Added: 10 Mar 2011
London – The employer-backed Nuclear Island skills project is being moved to the next stage followi…

UK process plant spend to increase 14% to 2015
Added: 10 Mar 2011
Manchester, UK – Overall, process plant expenditure is set to increase by 14% in real terms between…

Borouge awards Coperion its biggest ever contract
Added: 9 Mar 2011
Stuttgart, Germany – Coperion GmbH has landed its biggest ever single contract – a Euro100m deal wi…

Siemens Water technology for Marcellus Shale project
Added: 8 Mar 2011
Munich, Germany – Siemens Water Technologies is providing Hydro Recovery LP with a wastewater treat…

US team claim biofuels process advance
Added: 8 Mar 2011
Washington – A US researh team has devloped a technology using bacteria to convert plant matter dir…

BP to expand petrochemicals ops in China
Added: 16 Feb 2011
London – BP is to increase purified terephthalic acid (PTA) production capacity at the BP Zhuhai Ch…

Carbon price could floor UK chemicals and steel makers
Added: 14 Feb 2011
London – The UK government Electricity Market Reforms and ”Floor Price’ policy for carbon could ser…

McAfee reports cyber attacks on oil, energy, petrochemical majors
Added: 11 Feb 2011
Santa Clara, California – Global oil, energy, and petrochemical companies have been the targets of …

£100 million waste-to-chemicals plant for Teesside
Added: 31 Jan 2011
London – A renewable chemical sector entrepreneur has unveiled ambitious plans to develop “the UK’s…

Chemicals firm scoops UK accolade
Added: 19 Jan 2011
London – Warwick Chemicals is the UK winner of the National Training Award for 2010. The award refl…

DuPont in $6.3bn swoop for Danisco
Added: 11 Jan 2011
Wilmington, Delaware ? DuPont is to acquire Danisco, a global enzyme and speciality food ingredient…

Phoenix Chemicals plans to add fifth Siemens control system
Added: 15 Dec 2010
Bromborough, UK – Wirral-based chemical and pharmaceutical intermediates manufacturer Phoenix Chemi…

Shell's sure again about chemicals
Added: 8 Dec 2010
London – After years of exiting many of its downstream chemicals and polymers activities, Shell Gro…

Cefic expects EU chemicals growth to slow
Added: 7 Dec 2010
Brussels - European chemicals producers will face a slowdown in demand for their products during 20…

UK cuts push chemical industry groups to join forces
Added: 2 Dec 2010
London – Regional chemicals trade body Chemicals North West (CNW) is set to become part of the Chem…

Total to build coal-based petrochemical plant in China
Added: 8 Nov 2010
Paris - Total and the Chinese energy group China Power Investment Corp. (CPI) plan to build a coal-…