Latest Archive
Friendly bid
Added: 23 Jun 2005
Solvay Organics has launched a friendly bid to acquire at least 51% of Girindus, a publicly listed …
More monomers
Added: 21 Jun 2005
Mitsubishi Rayon and Lucite International are to jointly invest in the construction of two new meth…
Biodiesel comes to Iowa Falls
Added: 16 Jun 2005
Cargill is to construct a 37.5-million-gallon-a-year biodiesel plant and 30-million-pounds-per-year…
New slant on control
Added: 10 Jun 2005
With its small diagonal controllers, Honeywell’s new DCS immediately looks different from its compe…
Lightening the load
Added: 10 Jun 2005
Many plant operators in the petrochemical sector have recently recognised the need for specialist s…
Extreme level measurement
Added: 10 Jun 2005
Endress+Hauser’s Gammapilot M FMG60 compact transmitter can adapt to different environments.
A matter of ‘Echonomics’
Added: 10 Jun 2005
The Rosemount 5400 radar transmitter from Emerson Process Management is claimed to be the first of …
Asset management
Added: 10 Jun 2005
Good asset management is synonymous with having a well-maintained plant in the first place, and…
Waste lines for profit
Added: 10 Jun 2005
Finnish chemical company Kemira is coping with new European environmental legislation by using inor…
Monitor machinery health
Added: 10 Jun 2005
Monitoring the performance of plant equipment plays a vital role in preventing unplanned shutdowns.…
Differential pressure
Added: 10 Jun 2005
Accurately determining the level of water/hydrocarbon interfaces is critical to the operation of eq…
Biofuel boiler
Added: 10 Jun 2005
Aker Kvaerner has won a contract to supply a biofuel-fired boiler plant for paper and board plant i…
Combined coatings
Added: 10 Jun 2005
BASF has bought out Akzo Nobel’s share of their Australian 50:50 coatings joint venture BASF Akzo N…
Fibre folding
Added: 9 Jun 2005
MIT and Whitehead Institute researchers have developed a technique to probe the architecture of amy…
Haythornthwaite steps down
Added: 9 Jun 2005
Invensys chief executive Rick Haythornthwaite has made good his promise to leave the company once h…
REACH ‘an asset to competitiveness’
Added: 9 Jun 2005
The European Commissions proposed chemicals policy REACH will give a push to competitiveness in Eur…
Nitrogen on demand
Added: 9 Jun 2005
On-site generation of nitrogen can be an economic alternative to bulk supply of this important gas.…
BASF opens refinery laboratory in Russia
Added: 9 Jun 2005
As part of its efforts to consolidate its foothold in the Russian oil market, BASF has become the f…
Fluor to design Saudi petrochemicals complex
Added: 9 Jun 2005
Fluor has won a contract for front-end engineering design and project management for a major petro…
