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Attractive biodiesel

Added: 18 Aug 2005

A researcher at the University of Missouri-Columbia is working to make biodiesel manufacturing more…

Calder Hall set for decommissioning

Added: 18 Aug 2005

The Nuclear Installations Inspectorate has approved the decommissioning of Calder Hall, Britain’s f…

Shell seeks Fluor services

Added: 18 Aug 2005

Fluor has won a contract to provide engineering and project management services for two of Shell’s

DTI studies CO2 segregation plan

Added: 18 Aug 2005

The DTI has announced a £40 million package to investigate the feasibility of storing carbon dioxid…

Saudi petchems

Added: 18 Aug 2005

Innovene, the petrochemicals and refining offshoot of BP, has agreed to collaborate on the developm…

Clean coal contracts

Added: 18 Aug 2005

Mitsui Babcock has won a £30 million-plus maintenance contract at the Drax coal-fired power station…

James Robinson to exit UK

Added: 18 Aug 2005

Speciality chemicals producer James Robinson is to close down its plant in Huddersfield, transferri…

Amec makes nuclear investment

Added: 18 Aug 2005

Amec is to buy the ?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /U…

Intergraph seals alliance with Bechtel

Added: 18 Aug 2005

Bechtel has signed an agreement giving it unlimited use of Intergraph SmartPlant and Plant Design S…

Process and control licence for Dow in Russia

Added: 18 Aug 2005

LUKOIL-Neftekhim is to use Dow Chemical’s Unipol polypropylene process, and the complementary Unipp…

BASF starts up Nanjing complex

Added: 18 Aug 2005

BASF has begun the start-up of its major Asian site, the 220Ha, $2.9 billion complex at ?xml:namesp…

Keeping track of the joints

Added: 18 Aug 2005

Hedley Purvis is finding increasing demand for its Joint Data Management System (JDMS) from major o…

All part of the process

Added: 18 Aug 2005

In the run-up to this year’s PPMA show, we look at how process and packaging is becoming more tight…

Inbuilt quality

Added: 18 Aug 2005

Driven by an initiative from the US FDA, the pharmaceutical industry is beginning to adopt pr…

Refrigeration refresher

Added: 18 Aug 2005

Refrigeration and air conditioning systems are rarely adequately maintained, with the result th…

Smarter clean-up

Added: 18 Aug 2005

Yorkshire-based speciality chemicals producer AH Marks turned to PICME for help in improving its pr…

Optimising paper production

Added: 18 Aug 2005

Faced with rising raw material and energy costs, pulp and paper producers are having to optimise th…

King Coal

Added: 18 Aug 2005

UK-developed clean-coal technologies clearly still have an important role to play both here and abr…

Versatile enzyme

Added: 17 Aug 2005

An unusually active enzyme might provide the key to synthesising a wide variety of potential pharma…

Taste sensation

Added: 17 Aug 2005

The nanotechnology sector is abuzz with ideas and innovations, with new techniques for forming micr…