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Coal combustors cut pollution

Added: 1 Jul 2002

Two new, high-tech coal combustors offer the potential for cutting smog-forming emissions t…

Siemens company receives 44 million Euro order

Added: 27 Jun 2002

Siemens Industrial Solutions and Services Group has received an order from Baoshan Iron & Steel Com…

New vehicles have harder coats

Added: 26 Jun 2002

Decoma International has developed a new, proprietary hardcoat technology and manufacturing…

Nanotechnology purifies drugs

Added: 24 Jun 2002

Using what might be described as a biological machine, University of Florida and Finnish researcher…

BASF takes over automotive refinish business

Added: 24 Jun 2002

BASF Coatings is taking over the entire automotive refinishing business of the Australian …

Williams to sell US refineries

Added: 20 Jun 2002

Williams plans to sell its Memphis and Alaska refineries and related petroleum assets which it esti…

FDA suspends operations at Air Liquide

Added: 20 Jun 2002

The US Federal Drug Administration (FDA) has shut down certain operations of Air Liquide Am…

Membrane filters offer options for cleaner water

Added: 18 Jun 2002

University of Houston researchers are studying the large-scale employment of membrane filters to re…

Global instability no threat to gas and oil

Added: 18 Jun 2002

Don't panic. That's the message BP chief executive Lord Browne delivered today whilst launching the…

Globex goes for millions

Added: 18 Jun 2002

Marathon Oil Corporation has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Houston-based Globex …

A sharper image

Added: 17 Jun 2002

Materials scientists at Xerox Research Centre in Canada have developed a chemical approach to econo…

Cleaner water

Added: 13 Jun 2002

A Northwestern University environmental engineer has developed a water treatment device that render…

Turning carbon fibres into connectors

Added: 13 Jun 2002

Xerox Corporation has developed a way to make carbon fibre into connectors that can conduct…

Spotting contaminated chickens

Added: 13 Jun 2002

Researchers at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth have developed a rapid procedure which will ena…

Guided wave radar level transmitters

Added: 12 Jun 2002

Emerson Process Management has introduced a series of guided wave radar level transmitters.…

Babcock & Wilcox awarded $105 million construction project

Added: 7 Jun 2002

McDermott International has announced that Babcock & Wilcox Construction has been awarded a contrac…

US files Shell suit

Added: 5 Jun 2002

The United States has filed a civil suit against the Shell Pipeline Company and the Olympic Pipelin…

Biorubber ushers in a new era for tissue engineers

Added: 5 Jun 2002

Scientists from around the world have been contacting an MIT lab for samples of 'biorubber,' a new …

A biodegradable notebook

Added: 5 Jun 2002

Fujitsu has developed what it claims is the world's first notebook computer housing to use …

Aluminium waste headache solved

Added: 31 May 2002

An Australian research team believes it has solved one of the world's big industrial waste headache…