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Formosa Chemical adds UV disinfection at Taiwan plants
Added: 20 Apr 2012
Taiwan – Formosa Chemical and Fibre Corp. is employing UV technology from Hanovia to disinfect cool…

INEOS boss: Process safety is everyone's business
Added: 17 Apr 2012
London – Process safety management (PSM) is “the make-or-break issue” for the process industries. a…

KBR to provide ethylene furnace for INEOS Olefins
Added: 13 Apr 2012
Houston, Texas – INEOS has engaged KBR to design and construct an ethylene furnace for one of its i…

BASF signs up Fluor as global engineering partner
Added: 6 Apr 2012
Houston, Texas – BASF has selected Fluor Corp. as its engineering partner for chemicals capital pro…

German speciality chemicals maker adds mobile SCADA
Added: 5 Apr 2012
London – Speciality chemicals manufacturer Allessa Chemie has implemented a mobile SCADA system at …

BASF to set up Euro150m chemicals site in India
Added: 2 Apr 2012
Mumbai, India - BASF is investing Euro150 million to set up a new chemical production site, in Guja…

Linde to supply Aramco/Dow petchem complex
Added: 27 Mar 2012
London – Linde is to supply Sadara Chemical Co.with CO, H2 and ammonia at a chemical complex now be…

Apprentices success story to end?
Added: 8 Mar 2012
London – T?ime is running out for the Tees Valley Apprenticeship Programme (TVAP) in the North East…

Contracts & Projects Tracker: February 2012
Added: 5 Mar 2012
Virtalis has designed and installed two virtual reality systems for the new Nuclear AMRC, which was…

Laser beams help detect chemicals over long distances
Added: 28 Feb 2012
Researchers at the Vienna University of Technology have developed a method of detecting chemicals w…

Aramco, Dow tap Foster Wheeler for Saudi propylene oxide project
Added: 13 Feb 2012
Zug, Switzerland - Saudi Aramco and Dow Europe have awarded Foster Wheeler an engineering, procurem…

EU project targets biomass-to-chemicals processes
Added: 3 Feb 2012
Closing the gap between laboratory and the industrial practice for the production of chemicals from…

UK chemical engineering course applications up 12%
Added: 31 Jan 2012
London – Chemical engineering degree courses have attracted 11,890 applications, 12.4% more than th…

Rockwood Pigments moves to paper-free maintenance
Added: 31 Jan 2012
Rockwood Pigments’ manufacturing site at Kidsgrove, Stoke-on-Trent, is on its way to saying goodbye…

Total to expand Korean petchem complex
Added: 27 Jan 2012
Paris – Total is to expand and upgrade the Daesan petrochemicals complex in South Korea, which it o…

System integrators in demand in India
Added: 25 Jan 2012
London – Manufacturing companies in India are increasingly turning to system integrators to impleme…

GAMBICA details 'Automated Britain' event
Added: 24 Jan 2012
London – GAMBICA and Intellect have issued more detail about their jointly organised conference eve…

EU to triple banned-chemicals list
Added: 24 Jan 2012
London – Manufacturers and distributors across a broad range of industries which place products on …

Three big issues in 2012
Added: 23 Jan 2012
London – In the run-up to the recent holiday period I got to quiz a good number of UK engineers, fr…

Bayer centre targets isocyanate process advances
Added: 17 Jan 2012
Leverkusen, Germany – Bayer MaterialScience has commissioned a new Euro5-million technical center f…