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SPORT to test REACH

Added: 23 Nov 2004

A new organisation is to test how the proposed regulation on the Registration, Evaluation and Autho…

Environmental concerns to drive catalyst growth

Added: 23 Nov 2004

The worldwide market for catalysts is set to grow by 5.1% per year until 2008, reaching a t…

Nova sells ethane pipeline

Added: 23 Nov 2004

NOVA Chemicals has reached an agreement to sell its interest in the 1,324 km Alberta Ethane Gatheri…

All I want for Christmas

Added: 23 Nov 2004

Pity poor Dan. His dreams come true on Christmas morning when he discovers that Santa has brought h…

Safe reactors with no gas

Added: 22 Nov 2004

It's now possible to avoid the storage and metering of high pressure gases by pumping hydrocarbon …

Pilot unit for water treatment

Added: 22 Nov 2004

Alfa Laval's new pilot membrane technology unit allows water treatment companies to check o…

Steam secret of natural fission

Added: 22 Nov 2004

The world's only known natural nuclear reactor, which decommissioned itself over two billio…

Putting a sparkle in beer

Added: 22 Nov 2004

A dummy protein molecule developed by BASF is helping breweries to produce clear, sparkling…

What's on the wireless

Added: 22 Nov 2004

With wireless networking one of the hottest topics for debate in engineering circles, Mark Freema…

A waste of air

Added: 22 Nov 2004

David Share explains how easy it is to reduce compressed air leakage and save money when using this…

Maximising asset uptime

Added: 22 Nov 2004

Tony Nicholls of Furmanite International discusses maintenance strategies as part of asset manageme…

Full steam ahead

Added: 22 Nov 2004

The new combined heat and power plant under construction at BASF's Ludwigshafen site demonstrates t…

Safer distilling

Added: 22 Nov 2004

An Edinburgh distillery is saving thousands of pounds after an upgrade of its boiler contro…

Concrete plans for China

Added: 22 Nov 2004

Despite last month's news about the acquisition of one of the UK's leading cement manufacturers, th…

Cementing success

Added: 22 Nov 2004

Global cement manufacturers are turning to advanced process control systems to boost their producti…

A vision of the future

Added: 18 Nov 2004

Ian Purcell describes how a biscuit manufacturer is benefiting from the latest techniques in machin…

Cyanide offences

Added: 17 Nov 2004

US-owned Sevalco has been ordered to appear before the UK Crown Court after it released up to seven…

Let freedom reign

Added: 17 Nov 2004

Dave Wilson asks why price fixing, bribery, cartels and heavy fines have become so commonplace in t…

European styrenics

Added: 16 Nov 2004

NOVA Chemicals has reached an agreement in principle to merge its European styrenic polymer…

Offshore gas

Added: 11 Nov 2004

TransCanada Corporation and Shell plan to develop an offshore liquefied natural gas regasification…