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Chip houses go green with lack of lead

Added: 16 Jul 2001

Europe's three largest semiconductor manufacturers are proposing a standard that provides a common …

BP take majority stake in Veba Oil

Added: 16 Jul 2001

BP announced today that it is to take a majority stake in Veba Oil, which owns Aral, German…

Semi suppliers launch Low-K alliance

Added: 13 Jul 2001

Dow Chemical and nine other semiconductor equipment and materials suppliers have launched an allian…

'Koolgas' increases plastic production by 40%

Added: 12 Jul 2001

Researchers at the University of Warwick's Warwick Manufacturing Group have found that cool gases a…

Accurate flow control at low cost

Added: 12 Jul 2001

The Starling Associates gas flow loadable function block for electronic flow measurement allows gas…

Cinven to buy Burmah Castrol's metallurgical chemicals and releasants divisions

Added: 12 Jul 2001

BP is to sell a number of Burmah Castrol's speciality chemicals businesses to Cinven in a deal wort…

Amerada Hess to purchase Triton Energy for $3.2 billion

Added: 11 Jul 2001

The Amerada Hess Corporation is to commence a cash tender offer for all outstanding ordinary shares…

SawStop makes for safer woodworking

Added: 10 Jul 2001

A US Patent Attorney has invented a device that prevents fingers being sliced off by table …

Statoil and BP agree long-term Norwegian gas contract

Added: 9 Jul 2001

Statoil, the Norwegian energy group, has announced the signing of a 15-year deal with BP to supply …

Plasma treatment solves sticky problem

Added: 6 Jul 2001

Replacing metal car parts with plastic gives automotive manufacturers a host of benefits bu…

Ford to invest $500 million in Cologne plant

Added: 5 Jul 2001

Ford Motor Company expect to increase daily output capacity at their Cologne plant by 45% once a $5…

CBT resin targets wind turbine blades

Added: 4 Jul 2001

Cyclics Corporation is commercialising an innovative thermoplastic resin that could radically incre…

Rigid and semi-rigid foam

Added: 4 Jul 2001

Eurotech has announced what it believes is a major breakthrough in the development of its h…

A new Halon replacement alternative

Added: 3 Jul 2001

3M's Performance Materials Division has developed a new fire extinguishing material that it…

Tons of Chinese polyacetal to come on line

Added: 3 Jul 2001

Polyplastics, Mitsubishi Gas Chemical Company (MGC) and Ticona are to build a 60,000 metric…

The return of the benzene eaters

Added: 2 Jul 2001

Researchers at SIUC have isolated two micro-organisms that can break down benzene without the aid o…

Plastic can be fab

Added: 28 Jun 2001

California startup FlexICs has opened an 18,000-square-foot pilot fabrication facility for …

700 bar hydrogen storage for fuel cell vehicles

Added: 27 Jun 2001

Quantum Technologies WorldWide claims to be the first to demonstrate an all-composite hydrogen stor…

Powering proteomics

Added: 27 Jun 2001

Caprion Pharmaceuticals is to collaborate with Sun, Oracle and CGI to develop and operate a…

Qatar gets new petroleum plant

Added: 26 Jun 2001

Chevron Phillips Chemical and Qatar Petroleum of Qatar have signed a joint venture agreemen…