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Wax merger aborted
Added: 25 Apr 2005
The German firm of Sasol Wax and Total SA of France have decided to abandon plans to create a joint…
Polymer processing
Added: 15 Apr 2005
Crompton Corporation and Hamilton Robinson, a private equity firm, are to form a joint venture call…
Plastics change shape with light
Added: 15 Apr 2005
An MIT engineer and his German colleagues have created the first plastics that can be deformed and …
Banning BPA?
Added: 15 Apr 2005
The bottles used to feed babies or the container holding leftovers in the refrigerator could cause …
Poisoned Irish blubber
Added: 14 Apr 2005
A Dutch researcher has discovered that one isomer of the toxin HBCD accumulates in dolphins and por…
Delayed reaction
Added: 11 Apr 2005
Industry has been slow to adopt process intensification technologies, despite their potential for …
Energy efficiency for small air users
Added: 11 Apr 2005
Atlas Copco’s new GA11VSD series of compressors are said to offer reduced energy costs and precise …
Evolving range of transmitters
Added: 11 Apr 2005
Endress + Hauser has included a range of new features into its Cerebar S and Deltabar S Evolution s…
A paean of praise for the UK
Added: 11 Apr 2005
Almost laid to waste in the 1980s, UK manufacturing is still proving itself a force to be reckoned …
Easier energy efficiency
Added: 11 Apr 2005
Camilla Anderson looks at the issues behind the industry-wide drive to improving the energy effici…
Take the TEMA test
Added: 11 Apr 2005
Specifying that workhorse of the process industries, the shell-and-tube heat exchanger, is usually …
A question of delivery
Added: 11 Apr 2005
With fuel cells now beginning to arrive on the roads, Neil Whitwell looks at how suppliers are opti…
Running on hydrogen
Added: 8 Apr 2005
A $380million research programme will evaluate fuel cells and the development of an infrastructure …
Dumbell drugs
Added: 8 Apr 2005
DNA could be the key to the fast, efficient production of cancer drugs based on nanoparticles, acco…
Funds for future of nanotechnology
Added: 8 Apr 2005
Yorkshire Forward has announced plans to invest £5million in three university centres in the UK to …
Nuclear project
Added: 8 Apr 2005
Aker Kvaerner is to build a facility to remove, sort and transfer nuclear waste from the Dungeness …
BP begins Texas City investigation
Added: 8 Apr 2005
Investigations have begun into the explosion at BP’s Texas City refinery in March, which killed 15 …
Epoxy sale
Added: 5 Apr 2005
Staines, UK-based Elementis is to sell its Hardman epoxy and urethane products business in the US f…
Hydrotreating on the island
Added: 1 Apr 2005
Technip has been awarded a lump sum turnkey contract by Hovensa to build a new hydrotreating unit a…
