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The problems with Pellistors

Added: 23 Sep 2002

Sensors which detect flammable gases must be reliable. Allen Mabbitt looks at the trouble with Pell…

Mix it up, dry it out

Added: 23 Sep 2002

Stuart Nathan looks at how manufacturers of process dryers are adding functionality to their equipm…

If the medium is the message, what price mathematics?

Added: 23 Sep 2002

Dr. Mike Spear ponders over why media studies are so popular with today's school-leavers and finds …

Dow to build big PET facility

Added: 23 Sep 2002

Dow Europe has disclosed that it intends to build a large PET production facility at its integrated…

ICI sells Synetix

Added: 23 Sep 2002

Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI) has agreed to sell its catalyst business, Synetix, to Jo…

Spray that again

Added: 23 Sep 2002

Because aerosol particles are so small, they are difficult to analyse. But now, researchers from th…

Energy at the crossroads

Added: 20 Sep 2002

A new report from the IChemE says that market intervention is required if UK government emi…

Akzo Nobel says no to drugs

Added: 20 Sep 2002

Akzo Nobel has sold Leeds, UK-based Rosemont Pharmaceuticals, its liquid pharmaceuticals ma…

Collaborating on catalysts

Added: 18 Sep 2002

Equistar Chemicals has signed a licensing and collaboration agreement with Procter & Gamble to deve…

Chemical risk

Added: 16 Sep 2002

Research at Oregon Health & Science University has revealed that certain chemical ingredients of ga…

Carbon in Japan

Added: 13 Sep 2002

Calgon Carbon and Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation are to form a joint venture partnership t…

Westinghouse wins $68 million RSG contract

Added: 5 Sep 2002

Westinghouse has won a $68 million contract to design, manufacture and facilitate the licensing of …

Dual float switch for tank level control

Added: 5 Sep 2002

Crydom Magnetics has introduced a liquid level sensor that solves the problem of controlling the fi…

Japanese gas

Added: 5 Sep 2002

BOC and Air Liquide intend to combine their Japanese industrial and medical gases businesses within…

Technip awarded $250 million contract

Added: 5 Sep 2002

Husky Energy has awarded Technip a $250 million contract to design, supply and install the subsea s…

Must try harder

Added: 4 Sep 2002

A new study from market consultants Frost and Sullivan says that Polyamide suppliers need t…

A lot of gas

Added: 4 Sep 2002

BP Trinidad and Tobago (BPTT) has discovered one trillion cubic feet of gas in its Iron Horse field…

Roche sells vitamins to DSM

Added: 3 Sep 2002

Dutch Life Science and Performance Materials intends to acquire Roche's Vitamins and Fine Chemicals…

Joint venture yields cost saving deepwater compressor

Added: 3 Sep 2002

GE Oil & Gas and Kvaerner Eureka have recently completed the joint development of a subsea …

CO2 makes things cleaner

Added: 3 Sep 2002

ICI and Linde have adapted a supercritical fluid used in the American aerospace industry to clean h…