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Getting the grants

Added: 30 Mar 2005

Eight nanotechnology projects across the UK are to receive a total of £20million in new funding fro…

Plastics in Iowa

Added: 25 Mar 2005

Battelle is to commercialise a new plastic additive compound made from corn that offers a variety o…

Drug deal

Added: 24 Mar 2005

Solvay has signed a memorandum of understanding with the shareholders of Fournier Pharma, with the …

£10 million biodiesel plant

Added: 21 Mar 2005

Greenergy Fuels is to build a £10 million biodiesel production facility at Immingham on the Humber …

Motiva fined $10 million

Added: 18 Mar 2005

Motiva Enterprises has been fined $10 million for endangering workers at its refinery and dischargi…

Acetic acid JV

Added: 18 Mar 2005

BP and Sinopec have signed a joint venture contract to build a 500,000 tonne per year acetic acid p…

Nickel heap

Added: 18 Mar 2005

Aker Kvaener has won a contract for a feasibility study for a nickel heap leach facility which will…

Successful tests for oil conversion

Added: 18 Mar 2005

A process developed by Californian firm Ivanhoe Energy could lead to a new source of light oil, a v…

Chinese contract

Added: 17 Mar 2005

Emerson Process Management has won a $7.4 million contract to automate ?xml:namespace prefix = st1 …

Silicone gel targets automotive electronics

Added: 16 Mar 2005

Dow Corning has introduced a new thixotropic dielectric silicone gel to protect sensitive electroni…

Excellence in processing

Added: 16 Mar 2005

A new International Centre for Process Systems Engineering (iCPSE) will be formed this week to prom…

Bayer optimistic despite Cipro decline

Added: 15 Mar 2005

Slimmed down, but buoyant: German major Bayer seems to be weathering its split from its commodity c…

Direct synthesis

Added: 14 Mar 2005

DegussaHeadwaters has successfully integrated a pilot plant that uses the direct synthesis hydrogen…

Cargill grabs pectins

Added: 11 Mar 2005

Cargill is to acquire the global pectin business of Citrico, a manufacturer and international suppl…

Brewer fined

Added: 11 Mar 2005

Carlsberg UK was fined a total of £25,000 and ordered to pay £2,001 costs by Selby magistrates on M…

Crompton merges with Great Lakes

Added: 11 Mar 2005

Crompton and Great Lakes Chemical are to merge, creating the third-largest publicly traded ?xml:nam…

A refined manifold

Added: 9 Mar 2005

Parker Instrumentation has developed a novel instrumentation manifold for BP's Grangemouth oil and …

BASF booms on price increases

Added: 9 Mar 2005

German chemical giant BASF achieved one of its best ever results in 2004, with sales climbing 13% t…

Oui to whey

Added: 8 Mar 2005

The French company Applexion is to commercialise a new whey recycling technology developed by Food …