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Pentagon Chemicals secures £2m from Government SME fund
Added: 17 Dec 2009
London - North West chemicals company Pentagon Chemicals has secured a £2 million from the Enterpri…

UK chemicals maker trains Iraqi weapons inspectors
Added: 23 Nov 2009
Knowsley, UK - A team of 10 Iraqi delegates have visited Contract Chemicals Ltd’s Knowsley site as …

Transport Phenomena in Electrochemical Processes
Added: 5 Nov 2009
Venue/Location: von Karman Institute, Belgium
Date: 30/11/09 to 04/12/09
Join the high level lecture …

Biotech funding up for grabs
Added: 21 Oct 2009
Technology Strategy Board is to manage a £2.5-million investment programme on behalf of the Governm…

Bayer CropScience investing Euro3.5bn in biotech and seed business
Added: 17 Sep 2009
BioScience sales of Euro1.4bn targeted for 2018. Peak sales potential of new crop protection active…

£30m chemical engineering facility for Manchester
Added: 10 Sep 2009
University of Manchester to establish state-of-the-art facility for its School of Chemical Engineer…
Warning over tanks for chemicals, water, wastewater
Added: 2 Sep 2009
Tanks for use in the chemical storage and processing and the water & waste treatment industries mus…
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…