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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…

Career charters at Sellafield, Tata
Added: 1 Nov 2011
Professional accreditation can deliver some important career benefits for engineers working at vari…

Why energy-saving plans are failing to go the distance
Added: 1 Nov 2011

Depending on the relative cost of enery at the time, energy-efficiency programmes and capital inves…

Apps ease maintenance woes
Added: 1 Nov 2011

While CMMS (computerised maintenance management system) software helps maintenance managers to trac…

CBA: HSE wants a "blank cheque" from chemical industry
Added: 31 Oct 2011
London — The Chemical Business Association (CBA) has branded the Health & Safety Executive’s (HSE) …

Polish refinery to demo new GE fibre-optic technology to tackle fouling
Added: 6 Oct 2011
Florence Italy — GE is developing a ’sense-diagnose-remediate’ system to control the build-up of fo…

Dow launches new polypropylene catalyst technology
Added: 5 Oct 2011
New York — Dow Chemical Co. has launched Consista C601 polypropylene catalyst, which it describes a…

Shell puts out Singapore refinery fire
Added: 1 Oct 2011
Pulau Bukom, Singapore — A fire at Shell’s refinery on Pulau Bukom island was “fully extinguished” …

Turnarounds: All change in petrochemicals sector
Added: 1 Oct 2011
London — The west European petrochemical Industry is reckoned to spend around €3 billion a year on …

BASF demolition job for RVA
Added: 30 Sep 2011
Ipswich, UK — BASF has started dismantling its Kaipiainen polymer production facilities in Finland.…

Hima-Sella upgrades ESD systems at Lucite UK plant
Added: 28 Sep 2011
Teesside, UK – Hima-Sella has commenced work on the upgrade of emergency shutdown (ESD) systems for…

Yara repeats order for mixer – 26 years on
Added: 19 Sep 2011
York, UK — John R Boone has supplied a replacement 2000-litre heavy duty rotary drum blender to Yor…

DuPont wins $920m aramid secrets lawsuit against Kolon Industries
Added: 15 Sep 2011
Wilmington, Delaware — DuPont has won a civil lawsuit for $919.9 million in the US against Kolon In…

Oxford Catalysts earns US technology award
Added: 13 Sep 2011
Oxford, UK — Microchannel technology developed by the Oxford Catalysts Group was named as the winne…

INEOS ramps up technology licensing in China
Added: 9 Sep 2011
London – INEOS Technologies has licensed its Innovene PP process for the manufacture of polypropyle…

UK plastics leader questions "shocking" energy cost rises
Added: 1 Sep 2011

London - The British Plastics Federation’s (BPF) president Philip Watkins made a strong attack on t…

New UK refinery?
Added: 1 Sep 2011
GE Oil & Gas is planning to build a new oil refinery on Teesside in the north east of England, acco…

Invensys control system for Saudi refinery
Added: 16 Aug 2011
London – Saudi Aramco Total Refining & Petrochemical Co. (SATORP) — a JV between Saudi Aramco and T…

Government 'cuts' UK chemical industry costs
Added: 3 Aug 2011
London – Chemical industry leaders are on the warpath over the UK government’s latest assessment of…

Renewable ethanol for fuel additives, rubber and solvents
Added: 3 Aug 2011
Richland, Washington – US researchers claim to have developed catalysts that could replace chemical…