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Foam manufacturers to try-out new recycling technology
Added: 3 Oct 2001
The Dow Chemical Company and Mobius Technologies are to install a proprietary polyurethane …

Optimising PET recycling
Added: 28 Sep 2001
Schmalbach-Lubeca has developed a new recycling system for the production of new beverage bottles f…
Novel membrane makes filtration cheaper
Added: 24 Sep 2001
University of Arkansas researchers have developed a novel membrane that can reduce the cost and imp…
Research focuses on icy challenges
Added: 21 Sep 2001
The special challenges confronting oil producers working in the Arctic will be the focus of…

Recycling project offers potential to save industry £50m per annum
Added: 20 Sep 2001
A two-year project has been established to develop a cost effective automated technique for the eff…
Government sets out its terms for emissions trading
Added: 17 Sep 2001
Stuart Nathan looks at what the government's framework is for its emissions trading scheme, to run …
Photosynthesis in a beaker?
Added: 17 Sep 2001
In a step toward creating energy from sunlight as plants do, MIT researchers have invented a compou…
Tiny fuel cells power mobiles
Added: 3 Sep 2001
By using carbon nanotube technology, a Japanese consortium has developed a tiny fuel cell for mobil…
Separation system offers coal a new hope
Added: 22 Aug 2001
Researchers at the Inorganic Membrane Technology Laboratory have developed a means of separating an…
Solar kiln is kind on costs
Added: 21 Aug 2001
Researchers at the University of Arkansas have created an environmentally friendly solar powered ki…
New process may cotton on
Added: 20 Aug 2001
A textile scientist at North Carolina State University is developing a method of dyeing cotton that…
Boosting gas flow
Added: 17 Aug 2001
The US Department of Energy has selected two firms to develop advanced methods for locating low per…
Fuel cell consortium awarded $49 million by US Army
Added: 16 Aug 2001
A Power and Energy Alliance Consortium has been awarded an eight-year, $49 million dollar deal for …
Waste to methanol
Added: 16 Aug 2001
Startech Environmental has signed a strategic alliance with Hydro-Chem to produce and sell combined…
Ethanol from corn: not such a good idea
Added: 10 Aug 2001
Corn producers and some lawmakers have touted ethanol-gasoline mixtures as the answer to fossil fue…
Smooth operation
Added: 9 Aug 2001
Safety concerns and pressure from customers are leading to increasing use of food-grade lubricants,…
Eradicating CFC's with a plasma cask
Added: 1 Aug 2001
Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Chemical Technology have developed a plasma cask design…
Recycle those scrap tyres
Added: 27 Jul 2001
An innovation by a British scientist may spark a renewed interest in pyrolysis - and help to reduce…
Bringing sewage back to life
Added: 24 Jul 2001
Haestad Methods has announced the release of SewerCAD v5, the latest version of their model…

Dow buys rigid foam
Added: 24 Jul 2001
The Dow Chemical Company has agreed to purchase the assets of the Celotex Corporation's rig…