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Steel mill runs smoothly on new couplings

Added: 29 Oct 2007

Precompressed rubber blocks eliminate clearance and incorporate hysteretsis damping as the rubber …

DSM Elastomers advances EPDM catalyst technology

Added: 19 Oct 2007

Dutch group to implement a new ACE technology at one of its existing EPDM rubber facilities

Chemical industry to benefit from UK-Norway feedstock pipeline

Added: 18 Oct 2007

Shell-ExxonMobil development to provide key feedstock supplies to the UK and European chemicals ind…

Borealis invests in Symyx innovation software and tools

Added: 17 Oct 2007

Polymer group aims to improve its innovation capability in the polyolefins and base chemical indust…

The challenge of flooding

Added: 17 Oct 2007

Flood risk management is not widely available despite advances in understanding, says David Balmfor…

Heineken, Carlsberg plan Scottish & Newcastle bid

Added: 17 Oct 2007

Heineken would assume control of S&N’s business in the UK and other European markets with Carlsberg…

BASF digs up polyamide developed 50 years ago

Added: 17 Oct 2007

Castor oil-based polymer returns to BASF's portfolio to meet growing demand for materials based on …

New £2bn refinery for Teesside

Added: 12 Oct 2007

Sonhoe project would represent one of the largest single investments in the process industry in the…

Perpetuum attracts support for wireless power technology

Added: 11 Oct 2007

New £5-million funding round to be used to support Perpetuum in commercialising its vibration energ…

DavyMarkham brings back engineering apprenticeships

Added: 11 Oct 2007

Sheffield-based engineering company has renewed its in-house apprenticeship scheme, after a 20-year…

BASF set to restart China THF plant

Added: 11 Oct 2007

Mothballed plant is now equipped with a new production unit enabling the alternative use of butane …

Premier Foods' dessert trolley feeder

Added: 11 Oct 2007

New bin feeder system linked to relocation of production of Bird’s Custard and other high-profile d…

BP charts new course

Added: 11 Oct 2007

After a recent series of catastrophic misadventures, not least at Texas City and Prudhoe Bay, BP ha…

GE, Bechtel in polygeneration, CO2 recovery project

Added: 10 Oct 2007

Planned Canadian facility will have the ability to use petroleum coke and incorporate carbon captur…

Paper mill pulps energy bill

Added: 10 Oct 2007

Gas consumption was 6.8% lower at the end of the post installation period for an identical amount o…

Improving industrial mixing processes

Added: 10 Oct 2007

Course at Cranfield will focus on topics including single and multiphase mixing and reaction applic…

One man, his dog and a brewery

Added: 9 Oct 2007

Dutch group has developed a 3m-hectolitre brewery that requires no production workers for the night…

BASF plugs naphtha cracker units into the market

Added: 8 Oct 2007

Software determines the impact of running specific naphtha grades on the business performance of th…

Biofuels bandwagon running on empty?

Added: 8 Oct 2007

OECD report highlights serious concerns about social and environmental effects of the biofuels sect…

Cutting out cable

Added: 5 Oct 2007

Despite some lingering concerns, the flexibility and lower costs of wireless could see it take a ma…