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Lanxess upgrades safety at German chemicals plant

Added: 5 Aug 2009

Upgrade to existing HIMA ESD (emergency shutdown) system at its hexane oxidation plant in the Krefe…

McKinsey: Chemicals industry delivers 2:1 emissions savings

Added: 8 Jul 2009

Industry cuts twice as many greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions as it emits and has an abatement potenti…

Chemicals industry award winners

Added: 1 Jul 2009

Steve Elliott, chief executive of the CIA, said:, “This year’s quality of entries reflects the outs…

UK chemicals firm defies the gloom

Added: 26 Jun 2009

Brotherton Speciality Products investing Euro4.5 million to establish a new sulphite production fac…

European chemicals industry to recover in 2010

Added: 8 Jun 2009

Cefic: "Most sectors of the European chemicals industry seem to have reached the bottom, after a st…

Sun Chemical starts up UK printing ink facility

Added: 3 Jun 2009

Design, installation and comissioning work for the new facility was carried out by Ai Process Syste…

Chemicals Northwest alert over chemical imports move

Added: 11 May 2009

EU proposing to allow a further 80 chemicals into Europe, free of duty, with effect from 1 Jan 2010…

Chemicals industry drive to bio feedstock

Added: 18 Mar 2009

Move to renewable feedstock base is accelerating due to increasing prices of non-renewable feedsto…

IR cameras aid leak detection at BP Chemicals

Added: 17 Feb 2009

Company is employing infrared cameras to explore how infrared gas leak technology can minimise fugi…

Mixer stands up to chemical waste requirements

Added: 9 Feb 2009

Robust design helps hazardous waste management company Augean to meet new rules for managing hazard…

Rohm and Haas versus Dow Chemical

Added: 28 Jan 2009

Dow tries to pull out of merger deal citing global financial downturn and collapse of Middle East j…

Chemical makers feel the crunch

Added: 23 Jan 2009

Huntsman's axe, short-time at BASF and Bayer, SABIC profits dive. Dow, DSM, DuPont, Arkema, Rohm an…

Coogee Chemicals turns to wireless

Added: 29 Oct 2008

Emerson's Smart Wireless products prevent breakdowns and lost production on rotating reactor at Aus…

Chemical waste plant adds wireless inventory management

Added: 15 Oct 2008

Wireless monitoring of tank levels at operation treating chemical wastes from pharmaceutical and pe…

Chemicals industry employers, unions urge climate change rethink

Added: 9 Oct 2008

EU must focus on the competitiveness of energy intensive industries or face major dis-investment in…

Tyre, food majors target biochemical process for rubber industry

Added: 17 Sep 2008

Genencor and Goodyear to co-develop bio-process to produce renewable alternative to petroleum-deriv…

Honeywell good for Norwegian wood chemicals maker

Added: 16 Sep 2008

Wood-based and organic chemicals producer Borregaard using control technology to increase safety, r…

Close Brothers in UK chemicals MBO

Added: 9 Sep 2008

£129-million buyout of Warwick International of North Wales - a speciality chemical manufacturer fo…

Emerson nets main instrument vendor contract on China chemicals plant

Added: 28 Aug 2008

Batch automation requirement guides Nalco selection of automation architecture with fieldbus techno…

Cefic predicts slowdown for EU chemicals makers

Added: 7 Jul 2008

Industry group expects output growth of 2.0% in 2008 for the EU chemical industry, down from 2.5% i…