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Recycling project offers potential to save industry £50m per annum

Added: 20 Sep 2001

A two-year project has been established to develop a cost effective automated technique for the eff…

Government sets out its terms for emissions trading

Added: 17 Sep 2001

Stuart Nathan looks at what the government's framework is for its emissions trading scheme, to run …

Copper proves more stainless less steel

Added: 17 Sep 2001

Stainless steel is often used in processing because of its ability to resist contamination. But acc…

A better way to package food

Added: 17 Sep 2001

Film fabricators, packaging designers and engineers now have an alternative to VLDPE or ULDPE, than…

Photosynthesis in a beaker?

Added: 17 Sep 2001

In a step toward creating energy from sunlight as plants do, MIT researchers have invented a compou…

Gas system is cool and low cost

Added: 17 Sep 2001

A French outfit has launched a new process for liquefying natural gas, based on combining the effec…

Better inventory control

Added: 17 Sep 2001

Foxboro is confident that it's latest developments in level measurement technology will ensure the …

A billion dollar water works

Added: 17 Sep 2001

Essen-based RWE is to acquire all the outstanding ordinary shares of the American Water Works Compa…

Driving the process

Added: 14 Sep 2001

Stuart Nathan looks at how a Technology Centre in Stockton-on-Tees is speeding up the development o…

Concrete solutions

Added: 14 Sep 2001

Stuart Nathan looks at Terra Nitrogen's attempt to prolong the life of a concrete prilling tower, w…

Boosting business at Baglan Bay

Added: 14 Sep 2001

An Emerson Process Management DeltaV automation system and AMS software is enhancing plant efficien…

Chickens gutted by Georgia Tech innovation

Added: 14 Sep 2001

Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology are field-testing a technology that coul…

Shell gets into hot rock

Added: 11 Sep 2001

'Hot rocks' buried beneath the Earth's surface are going to be 'tapped' to produce energy by a join…

Plasma-channel drilling system gets the go-ahead

Added: 11 Sep 2001

Electrical engineers at the University of Strathclyde are being awarded £146,000 to further develop…

Mead and Westvaco combine in $10 Billion merger

Added: 5 Sep 2001

The Mead Corporation and Westvaco Corporation have agreed to merge, creating a global paper…

Wilson challenges oil and gas industry

Added: 4 Sep 2001

The UK's Energy Minister today challenged the oil and gas industry to unlock the hundreds of fields…

Devon acquires Anderson for $4.6 billion

Added: 4 Sep 2001

Devon Energy Corporation is to acquire Anderson Exploration in a move that will make it the largest…

Global Marine and Santa Fe International announce $6 billion merger

Added: 4 Sep 2001

Global Marine and Santa Fe International Corporation have announced that they have entered …

History in the making

Added: 4 Sep 2001

Motorola scientists are claiming to be the first to successfully combine the best properties of sil…

Tiny fuel cells power mobiles

Added: 3 Sep 2001

By using carbon nanotube technology, a Japanese consortium has developed a tiny fuel cell for mobil…