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Celanese to build acetic acid plant in China

Added: 5 Mar 2003

Celanese today announced that it has received Chinese government approval to build a world-scale ac…

Clean fuels In New Zealand

Added: 5 Mar 2003

Foster Wheeler has been awarded a contract by The New Zealand Refining Company to support NZRC in p…

Portable PCs get a fuel cell prototype

Added: 5 Mar 2003

Toshiba Corporation has developed a prototype of a small form factor direct methanol fuel cell for …

PolymerLatex sold to Soros

Added: 4 Mar 2003

Bayer and Degussa are to sell PolymerLatex, their 50/50 joint venture, to the financial inv…

Bayer and Shell to cease BSI joint operations

Added: 4 Mar 2003

Bayer Antwerpen and Shell today announced their intention to cease operation of their Bayer-Shell I…

FutureGen aims to slash greenhouse gas emissions

Added: 28 Feb 2003

The US Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham has announced plans for the US to build FutureGe…

Pharmas from Synthon

Added: 28 Feb 2003

Avecia has acquired the pharmaceutical fine chemicals business of Synthon Chiragenics Corpo…

ATP Oil & Gas goes Dutch

Added: 28 Feb 2003

ATP Oil & Gas has expanded its North Sea operations with the acquisition of a 50% equity interest i…

Versatile calibrator

Added: 27 Feb 2003

SI Pressure Instruments has developed a new comprehensive high accuracy pressure and loop c…

Researchers design system to improve disinfection of water

Added: 27 Feb 2003

Georgia Institute of Technology researchers have developed a better-performing, less costly…

Remote display

Added: 27 Feb 2003

IFM Electronic's latest range of solid-state pressure sensors are particularly suited for d…

Precision in a standard housing

Added: 27 Feb 2003

Designed to offer precision measurement in a standardised sensor housing, Sensortechnics' n…

Wilson announces £5 million renewable energy grant

Added: 26 Feb 2003

Energy Minister Brian Wilson has announced the award of a £5 million grant to Energy Power Resource…

BP sells North Sea assets for $162 million

Added: 17 Feb 2003

BP announced recently that it has agreed to sell certain Southern North Sea gas production assets t…

It's a gas

Added: 17 Feb 2003

Researchers at the University of Warwick are leading a programme called 'Hydrofueler' to connect pe…

Storage of nuclear waste heightens terrorism risks

Added: 14 Feb 2003

A space-saving method for storing spent nuclear fuel has dramatically heightened the risk o…

Greener blacktop

Added: 14 Feb 2003

Shell claims that its 'WAM-Foam' enables asphalt to be produced at lower temperatures, providing sa…

JV to develop methane-based fermentation

Added: 14 Feb 2003

DuPont and Statoil are to form a joint venture to further develop their bio technology busi…

ACCC files against vitamin C cartel

Added: 12 Feb 2003

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has instituted proceedings in the Australian Fed…

BP creates strategic partnership in Russia

Added: 11 Feb 2003

BP, Access-Renova and the Alfa Group have today agreed in principle to combine their interests in R…