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A new class of catalyst

Added: 31 Mar 2003

The Dow Chemical Company and Symyx Technologies have discovered a new class of single-site catalyst…

Greenhouse gasses reduced

Added: 28 Mar 2003

Emissions of the 'basket' of six greenhouse gases, weighted by global warming potential, are fallin…

BP planning new PTA plant in Belgium

Added: 27 Mar 2003

BP announced today that it has begun detailed engineering design for the construction of a new worl…

Gas Down Under

Added: 26 Mar 2003

ExxonMobil subsidiary, Mobil Exploration has discovered 20 trillion cubic feet of recoverable gas i…

Magnetic flowmeter market to reach $650 Million by 2007

Added: 24 Mar 2003

The worldwide magnetic flowmeter market, which totalled nearly $590 million in 2002, is projected t…

Going for the ozone

Added: 24 Mar 2003

Wedeco has acquired Trailigaz Ozone - the third largest ozone water treatment technology company in…

Duke divests 50% interest for $306 million

Added: 20 Mar 2003

Duke Energy North America has signed a definitive agreement to sell its 50-percent interest in Duke…

Procter & Gamble goes for Wella

Added: 19 Mar 2003

Procter & Gamble has signed an agreement to purchase a controlling interest in Wella from its major…

Selling pipes

Added: 18 Mar 2003

Halliburton has sold its Wellstream business to European buyout group Candover Partners for $136 mi…

Cleaning chaffy seed

Added: 17 Mar 2003

A seed cleaner that smoothly conditions and separates some of the toughest seeds to harvest…

'Green' synthesis plant wins RSC award

Added: 13 Mar 2003

New awards for innovation in teamwork were presented by The Royal Society of Chemistry at a…

From pilot to product

Added: 13 Mar 2003

With its customers cutting back on R&D, polymer manufacturer Synthomer called in project engineers …

How to play the energy game

Added: 12 Mar 2003

If, as Harold Wilson once said, 'a week is a long time in politics', what are we to make of…

Growing the polymer business in China

Added: 12 Mar 2003

With an increase in per capita income and greater availability of varied consumer products,…

Validating CFD with tomography

Added: 12 Mar 2003

Although it's a popular tool in reactor design, computational fluid dynamics modelling can be diffi…

Ultra-pure crystallisation

Added: 12 Mar 2003

A combination of crystallisation and a novel wash column has led to a process technology capable of…

Food for thought

Added: 12 Mar 2003

Environmental legislation is now high on the corporate agenda for the UK food and drink industry. H…

Baffling techniques

Added: 12 Mar 2003

Oscillatory flow mixing may have a major impact on some of the most specialised sectors of the proc…

ECS applications are on the increase

Added: 12 Mar 2003

The UK Enhanced Capital Allowance Scheme, which allows companies to claim tax relief on the costs o…

Bio boost for AMEC

Added: 12 Mar 2003

AMEC has been awarded the contract to provide engineering services to the new National Biom…