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New Saudi Aramco venture to target energy technologies
Added: 12 Jul 2012
Dhahran Saudi Arabia – Saudi Aramco has launched of a new corporate venturing subsidiary Saudi Aram…
Showa Denko starts biopolymer production
Added: 12 Jul 2012
Tokyo – Showa Denko KK (SDK) has started commercial-scale production of biodegradable polyester res…
Roquette costs set to dive
Added: 10 Jul 2012
Keokuk, Iowa – Located in Keokuk on the Iowa/Illinois border, the heart of corn production country,…
UK chemical engineers report positive pay trends
Added: 4 Jul 2012
London – UK chemical engineers have experienced positive pay trends with salaries continuing to ris…
BASF to build butadiene plant in Antwerp
Added: 4 Jul 2012
Ludwigshafen, Germany – BASF plans to build a butadiene extraction plant at its Verbund site in Ant…
Argex claims TiO2 process 'breakthrough'
Added: 4 Jul 2012
Montreal, Quebec – Canadian company Argex Mining Inc. claims to have made a breakthrough with its p…
Reducing pumps energy use at chemicals facility
Added: 2 Jul 2012
London – ?Solvay Fluor GmbH has reduced power consumption by a quarter at a modernised re-cooling s…
Samsung for $2,5bn carbon/coker unit in UAE
Added: 25 Jun 2012
Seoul, Korea - Samsung Engineering has received a letter of award for a carbon black and delayed co…
Fraunhofer network expands
Added: 25 Jun 2012
London - Saudi Basic Industries Corp. (SABIC) and German applied research organisation Fraunhofer-G…
Chemical tank cleaning: Small things make a big difference
Added: 24 Jun 2012
Technical article by Ivan Zytynski, marketing director of BETE Ltd:
The cleaning of tanks and vessel…
Jacobs nets contract for Saudi polyetheylene trains
Added: 24 Jun 2012
London – Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. has been awarded an engineering, procurement and constructio…
Major Dounreay hazard destroyed
Added: 19 Jun 2012
One of the most dangerous legacies of Britain’s early atomic research has been destroyed
Producing methanol using CO2 and hydrogen
Added: 14 Jun 2012
A research team at the Freiburg Materials Research Center (FMF) has developed a new system for prod…
HSE serves 'legionella' notices on two process companies
Added: 13 Jun 2012
Edinburgh, UK – The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has served two process companies, North Briti…
Shell's 'uneasy' approach to process safety
Added: 12 Jun 2012
With 15 years’ experience in managing the operation of top-tier COMAH sites, Dave Topliffe, manufac…
Chemical engineers discover new way to split water
Added: 11 Jun 2012
Nontoxic, noncorrosive method provides possible new route to hydrogen-gas production
New leader for Dow in Europe
Added: 11 Jun 2012
Midland, Michigan - Heinz Haller, executive vice president and chief commercial officer of Dow, has…
LyondellBasell energy-saving technology wins backing
Added: 11 Jun 2012
Houston, Texas - LyondellBasell has gained a $4.5-million grant from the US department of energy (D…
Reducing energy barriers to chemical reactions
Added: 8 Jun 2012
A new twist on an old chemical process has been shown to boost energy efficiency
Funding drives large-scale production of nanoparticles
Added: 7 Jun 2012
A Nottingham University spin-out is hoping to improve industrial nanoparticle production
