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A better image

Added: 18 Jan 2005

Rice University doctoral student Balaji Sitharaman has created a new class of contrast agen…

Lubrizol bomb's Bromborough

Added: 17 Jan 2005

Ohio-based Lubrizol Corporation today announced plans to close its manufacturing facility in Brombo…

Cleaner coaches spun out of Oxford

Added: 17 Jan 2005

A new fuel additive developed by Oxford researchers and commercialised by Oxford spin-out c…

Sempra awarded $1.4 billion gas contract

Added: 12 Jan 2005

Sempra LNG, a unit of Sempra Energy, has been awarded a $1.4 billion natural gas supply contract by…

Shell sells Bakersfield refinery

Added: 11 Jan 2005

Shell announced yesterday that its Shell Oil Products US subsidiary has signed an agreement to sell…

Bad seeds terminated

Added: 7 Jan 2005

Monsanto is to pay a fine of $1.5 million for illegally paying $50,000 to bribe a senior Indonesian…

Recycling for Roy

Added: 5 Jan 2005

If Santa brought you a new mobile phone for Christmas, you can now put your old one to good…

Getting more for less

Added: 5 Jan 2005

ABB has developed a decision-support tool to help power plant managers solve one of their m…

BASF plans $30 million plant

Added: 21 Dec 2004

BASF announced today that it is investing $30 million in a new polyisocyanate plant in the Shanghai…

Plasma products sold

Added: 16 Dec 2004

Bayer is to sell its worldwide plasma products business to NPS BioTherapeutics for approximately $5…

Canadian gas

Added: 9 Dec 2004

Shell Canada has made a major natural gas discovery on a previously untested structure located 30 k…

Animal feed fine

Added: 9 Dec 2004

The European Commission has decided to impose fines totalling 66.34 million Euros on Akzo Nobel, BA…

Polypropylene startup

Added: 3 Dec 2004

Sahara Petrochemical and Basell have signed an agreement to construct a 450 KT per year polypropyl…

World's smallest test tube

Added: 29 Nov 2004

David Britz and his colleagues at Oxford and Nottingham Universities have performed chemica…

Merck sells Pithiviers site

Added: 26 Nov 2004

In a move to consolidate its global production infrastructure, Merck today announced that it has de…

ICI sells polymers

Added: 24 Nov 2004

ICI has agreed to sell its US, Canadian and European Vinamul Polymers business to Celanese for $208…

A decanter for the distillery

Added: 23 Nov 2004

The CHNX 706 is Alfa Laval's new high-performance decanter centrifuge, developed specifical…

Hygienic pressure-relief

Added: 23 Nov 2004

Elfab has developed a pressure-relief system for use in aseptic and hygienic process condit…

Seals cover the entire pH range

Added: 23 Nov 2004

Ceetak has introduced a new range of high-performance seals that are compatible with media …

Centre for catalysts

Added: 23 Nov 2004

German chemicals producer Degussa has opened a new catalyst development centre which brings…