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Small can be just as profitable

Added: 4 Jun 2003

Dr. Mike Spear looks back at the company that was Invensys and contrasts its role in the industry w…

Feat of clay is a pearl

Added: 4 Jun 2003

Researchers from Oklahoma State University, although hundreds of miles from any oyster beds, have …

Coal-to-oil technique

Added: 4 Jun 2003

Aker Kvaerner is to join forces with ABB to build a coal liquefaction plant in Inner Mongol…

Plug into all-purpose measurement system

Added: 4 Jun 2003

A new modular 'building block' system for level measurement, switching and pressure has bee…

Biotrickling filters beat scrubbers

Added: 4 Jun 2003

Chemical engineers at the University of California, Riverside, have developed an environmen…

Low-cost gas heating

Added: 4 Jun 2003

Many small-scale process heating applications can only be met by electric heating methods, …

Green materials

Added: 4 Jun 2003

Stuart Nathan looks at some of the advances in processing techniques which are making polymer produ…

Microbes make bleaching greener

Added: 3 Jun 2003

A newly discovered enzyme may be the key to transforming industrial bleaching from environmentally …

Encapsulated seals

Added: 27 May 2003

Precision Polymer Engineering has developed a range of white encapsulated o-ring seals to tackle th…

Bacteria and catalysts

Added: 22 May 2003

Bacteria could soon have a major role to play in recycling precious metals from spent autom…

Fine chemicals deal probed by EC

Added: 22 May 2003

The European Commission has launched a detailed investigation into the planned acquisition of the V…

Dumping the defoamers

Added: 21 May 2003

Vulcan Performance Chemicals is to sell its industrial water treatment and pulp and paper businesse…

I can't believe it

Added: 19 May 2003

Unilever is to sell its Van den Bergh Oils business in the UK to Pura Foods, a subsidiary of the Ar…

In ferment

Added: 13 May 2003

Bacteria are used throughout the agriculture, food and beverage industries to impart flavour and ot…

Chemicals head to the Middle East

Added: 13 May 2003

Ciba Specialty Chemicals and Astra Polymers are to co-operate in the production and marketi…

Sugars into polymers

Added: 12 May 2003

Cambridge, MA-based Metabolix plans a two-year project to reengineer the central metabolism of Esch…

Controlling the temperature

Added: 8 May 2003

Mike Irvin takes a look at current developments and trends in temperature controllers for process a…

ABB wins $22 million process control contract

Added: 8 May 2003

ABB has won orders worth $22 million from Vattenfall Europe Generation, Berlin, to optimise the pro…

Matchstick figures

Added: 8 May 2003

Small enough to fit on the head of a match, Hero Electronics' Sensirion digital integrated …

Hydrogen to power Freeport

Added: 8 May 2003

Dow Chemical is working with GM to determine whether GM's hydrogen fuel cells can be used t…