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Raising the safety standard

Added: 7 Jan 2004

Since its opening in the 1960s, the North Sea gas terminal at Bacton in Norfolk has undergone many …

Ahead of the game

Added: 7 Jan 2004

In the fast-moving pharmaceutical industry, contractors have to cope with the demands of their clie…

Critical factor

Added: 6 Jan 2004

Fine chemicals producer Thomas Swan is pioneering environmentally friendly 'green' chemistry throug…

Seasonal sweetness

Added: 6 Jan 2004

Totally dependent on the vagaries of nature for its raw material, British Sugar's Wissington factor…

A cracking revamp

Added: 6 Jan 2004

Following its acquisition by Russian oil giant Lukoil in 1999, Bulgaria’s Bourgas refinery embarked…

Clamping down on downtime

Added: 6 Jan 2004

Furmanite International has recently been involved in two piping repair projects that have …

BASF to acquire Ticona's plastics

Added: 16 Dec 2003

In a move that complements its acquisition of Honeywell's engineering plastics operations earlier i…

A better way to filter oil

Added: 1 Dec 2003

Researchers from Loughborough University's Department of Chemical Engineering have commercialised a…

Because the lady loves worm action

Added: 25 Nov 2003

Cadbury Schweppes Australia is using a tray made from a biodegradable polymer for one of it…

Fab gas in China

Added: 25 Nov 2003

Praxair China Investment Co, Ltd, a subsidiary of Praxair Inc, has signed an industrial gases suppl…

Modelling the entire process

Added: 24 Nov 2003

Fluent, Aspen Technology and Enductive Solutions have announced a new standalone software toolkit t…

Ionics acquires Ecolochem in $338 million deal

Added: 20 Nov 2003

Ionics has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Ecolochem and its affiliated companies for $200…

Fluor to lead $700 million project

Added: 19 Nov 2003

Fluor Corporation today announced that it will lead a $700 million project to develop a chemicals c…

Shell signs $2 billion Saudi gas agreement

Added: 17 Nov 2003

Shell has announced the official signing of an upstream project agreement under which a consortium,…

More gas

Added: 17 Nov 2003

BG Energy Holdings has signed a memorandum of understanding with Petroplus International for the jo…

UK Coal agrees £200 million supply deal

Added: 13 Nov 2003

UK Coal has signed a £200 million agreement with EDF Energy to supply between seven and eight milli…

Recovering precious metals

Added: 11 Nov 2003

A British-Swedish joint venture between Chematur Engineering and Johnson Matthey has develo…

Ireland - where local meets global

Added: 11 Nov 2003

The success of the pharmaceuticals industry in Ireland owes much to the quality of process equipmen…

Culture in a spin

Added: 11 Nov 2003

Alfa Laval has produced what it claims to be the world's first fully hermetic purpose-built…

Putting data on the record

Added: 11 Nov 2003

The requirements of the FDA's 21 CFR Part 11 regulations have focused attention on the capabilities…