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BASF to acquire Ciba for Euro4bn
Added: 15 Sep 2008
Swiss group's board supports offer. BASF to expand its position in speciality chemicals
Emerson automating ultra-supercritical power plant in China
Added: 9 Sep 2008
Plantweb digital plant architecture for new coal-fired power plant being built in China’s Guangdong…
Stormscreens and pumps for Spanish wastewater plant
Added: 9 Sep 2008
Upper-Middle Arroyo Culebro (UMAC) Wastewater Treatment plant is the largest facility of its type i…
Rocky road to global biofuels
Added: 9 Sep 2008
Creation of worldwide industry will be much more difficult than previously thought, Accenture study…
Technology Briefing - September
Added: 9 Sep 2008
Borealis lab breakthrough ... 112 sensors in a mould ... Simpler wireless ... CHP advance ... Forg…
UK energy under threat from China, Russia
Added: 8 Sep 2008
ERC: Nuclear plans could be derailed by China's far larger programme. Over 55% of gas reserves in …
Vattenfall cranks up carbon capture plant
Added: 5 Sep 2008
Pilot unit in Germany billed as "the world's first carbon dioxide-free oxyfuel test facility in pil…
United Utilities targets alarms
Added: 5 Sep 2008
Monitoring systems generated around 40 alarm texts, day and night, but significant improvements hav…
BP moves to settle Russia JV dispute
Added: 4 Sep 2008
Management restructure at TNK-BP, Russia's third largest oil company, to resolve bitter difference …
Forgemasters takes on 32 apprentices
Added: 4 Sep 2008
Latest intake of school and college graduates bring the total number of apprentices there to 70 - a…
ABB predicts wireless to takeoff in mid-2009
Added: 4 Sep 2008
The arrival of the HART 7 open specification is enabling vendors to develop field instruments and …
Petrofac acquires Caltec, targets marginal oil & gas reserves
Added: 4 Sep 2008
Oil & gas facilities services provider nets Caltec, a production technology firm focused on enhanci…
Engineers' pay growing fastest up North
Added: 2 Sep 2008
North-South pay gap for engineers narrows as wages in the North grow 26% faster than the South
Fern device bends radio signals around solid structures
Added: 29 Aug 2008
Tests in oil & gas industry show how FRX-i can bend signals around a solid platform structures so …
Record numbers to study chemical engineering
Added: 28 Aug 2008
Demand increases for all science and engineering disciplines led by year-on-year increases of 13.9%…
Siemens gasification technology for Canada IGCC plant
Added: 28 Aug 2008
EPCOR to employ technology for planned facility in Genesee near Edmonton, Alberta. The demonstratio…

LyondellBasell launches autoclave technology for polymers
Added: 28 Aug 2008
Lupotech A process technology employs new reactor design with multiple zones, a new injection schem…
Arkema opts for wireless alarm management system from IPS
Added: 28 Aug 2008
Chemicals major choses Invensys to supply hand-held system to enable field operators to stay in tou…
Hosokawa applies mixing technology to dry coating
Added: 28 Aug 2008
Trials use of shear mixer as a dry coating device to product functionality by modifying surface pro…