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Buying DVB

Added: 28 Jul 2005

The Dow Chemical Company has reached an agreement to acquire the divinylbenzene (DVB) business from…

Emerson acquires Solartron Mobrey

Added: 28 Jul 2005

Emerson has acquired Solartron Mobrey from The Roxboro Group of the ?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns …

Catalyst support structures

Added: 28 Jul 2005

Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have developed porous support materia…

Bloody substitute

Added: 26 Jul 2005

Students at Loughborough University have developed a synthetic alternative to blood.

Alkali nanotech

Added: 26 Jul 2005

SiGNa Chem has come up with a way to nanoencapsulate alkali metals with silica gel.

Clean water

Added: 26 Jul 2005

US Department of Energy-funded research has resulted in the commercialisation of a technology desig…

Londonderry air

Added: 15 Jul 2005

The UK is heading for the European Court of Justice after failing to adequately treat wastewater di…

Switching gear

Added: 15 Jul 2005

TX-based Powell Industries has acquired Bradford, UK-based Switchgear & Instrumentation Limited fo…

MTBE – a cause of cancer?

Added: 14 Jul 2005

A US Environmental Protection Agency draft risk assessment says MTBE is a likely human carcinogen, …

Total Shell share swap

Added: 14 Jul 2005

Shell is to exchange a 20% interest in its Rome refinery in Italy for Total's 18% interest in Reich…

Fixing nitrogen

Added: 7 Jul 2005

US chemists have produced ammonia from nitrogen at room temperature under normal atmospheric pressu…

Ethanol in Canada

Added: 7 Jul 2005

Canada's capacity to produce renewable transportation fuels is set for another substantial increase.

Phthalates get banned

Added: 6 Jul 2005

The European Parliament has banned the use of phthalates in toys and industry isn't happy.

Cool olefins

Added: 5 Jul 2005

A Canadian consortium is developing a technology that will allow olefins to be manufactured more ef…

Desalination in Africa

Added: 28 Jun 2005

GE Infrastructure Water & Process Technologies and the Algerian Energy Company plan to build the la…

A fine acquisition

Added: 27 Jun 2005

BASF is to acquire 100% of Orgamol, a privately owned Swiss manufacturer of fine chemicals, active …

Semi finished deal

Added: 27 Jun 2005

Swiss firm Quadrant has signed an agreement with Menasha Corporation to purchase its Poly Hi Solidu…

Selling HFC

Added: 27 Jun 2005

Rhodia is to sell its ISCEON hydrofluorocarbon (HFC) refrigerant blends business to Dupont, pending…

Unpiggable no more

Added: 27 Jun 2005

GE Energy’s pipeline services operation has successfully launched its first SmartScan tool, a flexi…