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Slowdown hits European chemicals
Added: 13 Dec 2001
Recessions to the East and the West are to hit the chemical industry in Europe, according t…
Tough new bacteria lunches on pollutants
Added: 12 Dec 2001
Scientists at Brookhaven National Laboratory have developed strains of bacteria that can live in ha…Getting more from carbon dioxide
Added: 12 Dec 2001
Acrion Technologies, a small business sponsored by the US Department of Energy, is showcasing a met…Pickin' up good vibrations
Added: 11 Dec 2001
An Australian research team aims to design a reflector that will capture shockwaves as they bounce …Turning grass into electricity
Added: 11 Dec 2001
US authorities hope to make harvesting switchgrass for power generation a valid commercial enterpri…Smallest transistors made with a novel gate insulator
Added: 11 Dec 2001
Researchers at Agere Systems have reported that they have built the semiconductor industry's smalle…BP, Sinopec And Shanghai Petrochemical form chemical joint venture
Added: 10 Dec 2001
BP, Sinopec and Shanghai Petrochemical Corporation (SPC) have formed a joint venture company that w…Hello thin chips
Added: 6 Dec 2001
Fujitsu Limited has developed a new chemical-free process technology that enables the prod…
Bayer to split group into four units
Added: 6 Dec 2001
Bayer plans to transform its current organisational structure into a management holding com…
Emission trading goes online
Added: 5 Dec 2001
The Online Allowance Transfer System will enable participants in the sulphur dioxide and nitrogen …Titanium helps make polyester
Added: 5 Dec 2001
Teijin has developed a new catalyst technology for manufacturing polyester that will allow it to pr…Rolls-Royce seals £40 million Polish power plant contract
Added: 5 Dec 2001
Rolls-Royce Power Ventures has signed an agreement that gives the go-ahead for a new £40 million h…Production starts at world's largest ethyl acetate plant
Added: 4 Dec 2001
BP has started full-scale production from its new Avada ethyl acetate production unit, a 220,000 to…
Siemens wins UAE contract
Added: 3 Dec 2001
The Siemens Power Generation Group (PG) has secured an order worth around one billion Euros from th…Chemical recovery in 2002
Added: 30 Nov 2001
Despite the most challenging period in two decades, chemical shipments in 2001 most likely …
Tea bags for crabs
Added: 29 Nov 2001
A new delivery method for packaging chlorine dioxide in a 'tea-bag' can keep bacteria from …
Shell to develop Scoter in £75m North Sea investment
Added: 28 Nov 2001
Shell Expro announced today that the company has DTI approval to develop the Scoter field i…
Veritas and PGS agree to $3.5 billion merger
Added: 28 Nov 2001
Petroleum Geo-Services ASA and Veritas DGC Inc. have agreed to a $3.5 billion merger, creating the …One million PCs screen for cancer cures
Added: 26 Nov 2001
One million computers have now downloaded a screensaver which uses the 'idle time' of PCs t…
Business in the black
Added: 26 Nov 2001
Degussa and Engineered Carbons have signed a letter of intent to set up a joint venture com…
