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Air Products buys Ashland's chemicals
Added: 30 Jun 2003
Air Products has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the Electronic Chemicals business…
Olefins get cracking
Added: 30 Jun 2003
UOP and Atofina have developed a new process for converting C4 to C8 olefins to propylene a…
Buying flame retardants
Added: 23 Jun 2003
Albemarle is to acquire Rhodia's global organo-phosphorus and ammonium polyphosphate flame …
Algerian interests sold
Added: 23 Jun 2003
BP has agreed in principle to sell a portion of its Algerian interests to Statoil for $740 …
Vent recovery
Added: 20 Jun 2003
Parker Instrumentation has launched a turnkey solution for connecting continuous process an…
A Russian partner
Added: 20 Jun 2003
International chemical and pharmaceutical group Solvay has signed an agreement with Nikos, …
Hydrogen economy could impact the stratosphere
Added: 17 Jun 2003
Leaked hydrogen gas that would inevitably result from a hydrogen economy could indirectly cause as …Chemicals of concern, or not?
Added: 16 Jun 2003
The UK Chemicals Stakeholder Forum has published a list of high production volume chemicals that it…Finding the impurities
Added: 13 Jun 2003
Agilent Technologies has announced a sensitive method for determining inorganic impurities in semic…Dropping PET in South America
Added: 9 Jun 2003
Alcoa has reached an agreement to sell its polyethylene terephthalate (PET) packaging business in S…Marathon runner
Added: 9 Jun 2003
Raytek's Marathon FR sensor is designed specifically to measure the temperature of objects obscured…Exiting the vinyls game
Added: 6 Jun 2003
The PolyOne Corporation's European vinyl compounding business has been purchased by Hydro P…
Supply deal boosts BOC's global helium capacity
Added: 5 Jun 2003
BOC has recently announced the signing of a supply agreement under which it will purchase 50 percen…Modular solutions
Added: 5 Jun 2003
Dave Simko of Swagelok explains how modular, miniature sampling systems are now being designed, and…Energy savings the driving force for industry schemes
Added: 5 Jun 2003
Two of the leading control companies in the UK are each offering to help process operators …
Machine vision helps make paper
Added: 5 Jun 2003
A European-wide initiative aims to apply machine vision systems to the complex process of papermaki…Chemicals dip threatens France
Added: 4 Jun 2003
The introduction of the European Union's proposed chemicals policy is likely to reduce outp…
An engineer's best friend
Added: 4 Jun 2003
Ivan Buijnsters, a Dutch chemist, has developed a new method for diamond coating steel by depositin…