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Recherche, Forschung, Ricerche, Investigación, Tutkimus

Added: 19 Apr 2004

Gwilym Roberts looks at the European Union's plans to increase spending on R&D across the Member St…

Clean building

Added: 19 Apr 2004

A consortium of European firms in the chemicals and construction sectors are testing a rang…

Reservoir blocks

Added: 19 Apr 2004

Researchers from Ohio State University have found a way to use supercritical carbon dioxide to forc…

Competition feeds growth

Added: 19 Apr 2004

Consumer concerns over hygiene and food safety will drive 'slow but steady revenue growth' for prod…

Bayer prepares to split

Added: 19 Apr 2004

German chemical major Bayer is to split off a large portion of its chemicals business into …

Safety first

Added: 19 Apr 2004

This year marks two significant anniversaries in the annals of process plant safety - or ra…

Channel mapping

Added: 1 Apr 2004

A new fibre optic self-healing ring multiplexer from TC Communications targets SCADA, traffic contr…

Fluorinated resin gets recycled

Added: 25 Mar 2004

Asahi Glass and Nittetsu Chemical Engineering have developed a new process that breaks fluo…

A great attraction

Added: 15 Mar 2004

The question of who can call themselves a process or chemical engineer, and therefore practise thei…

Fluor takes the LION's share

Added: 15 Mar 2004

US-based EPC contractor Fluor is to take charge of a major clean fuels project in South Afr…

Qualified response

Added: 15 Mar 2004

The European Union is attempting to clarify rules on how professionals can move between member stat…

Easy digital thermometer

Added: 15 Mar 2004

Horiba Instrument's new infrared thermometer, the isquare, records and displays both the visual ima…

REACH threat to Belgian chemicals

Added: 15 Mar 2004

The Belgian chemical industry could lose up to 30% of its products as a result of the European Unio…

Bacteria power

Added: 10 Mar 2004

A new twist on the established technology of using bacteria to treat wastewater could make …

Photo finish

Added: 10 Mar 2004

Researchers from the US Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratories have developed a techni…

Second-hand cyclotron boosts PET scan centre

Added: 10 Mar 2004

The University of Birmingham has become the home for the first centre in the world to combine a cyc…

Avecia to sell Biocides business

Added: 5 Mar 2004

Avecia has signed a definitive agreement to sell its Biocides business to Arch Chemicals fo…

BASF acquires US foam producer

Added: 3 Mar 2004

BASF has acquired Minneapolis, Minnesota-based Foam Enterprises (FEI), a supplier of rigid polyuret…

Selling food ingredients

Added: 2 Mar 2004

The Irish-based Kerry Group is to acquire the Quest Food Ingredients business from the ICI Group fo…

Cracking it

Added: 27 Feb 2004

Total is to build a distillate hydrocracker with a capacity of 2.4 million metric tons a year as we…