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DuPont makes polymer ingredient from corn
Added: 2 May 2001
DuPont has successfully manufactured a critical ingredient for its newest polymer, Sorona, using a …
Energy from mine is more than hot air
Added: 26 Apr 2001
Researchers from the US Department of Energy's Sandia National Labs are working to determine the fe…
Cyclical swing moves process gas compressors market forward
Added: 25 Apr 2001
The oil and gas industries are driving the European process gas market forward as it recovers from …
Safer, cheaper deep-sea drilling
Added: 24 Apr 2001
Researchers at the Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory and the University of Ar…
PICME puts focus on excellence
Added: 11 Apr 2001
The Process Industries Centre for Manufacturing Excellence aims to raise productivity and competiti…
Making batteries last longer
Added: 11 Apr 2001
Researchers at Lightyear Technologies are applying a new group of semi-conducting, corrosion resist…
Could the climate change from anger to acceptance?
Added: 11 Apr 2001
It's been a long time coming, but most companies affected will by now know that the Climate…

Infrared for low temperatures
Added: 11 Apr 2001
Land Infrared has increased the versatility of its System 4 on-line, non-contact systems with the i…
Dewpoint monitor offers economic, unattended use
Added: 11 Apr 2001
Ametek's Western Research Model 241 CE hydrocarbon dewpoint monitor can detect trace amounts of con…
Level switch for corrosives
Added: 11 Apr 2001
The Echotel 915W from Magnetrol is a compact, ultrasonic, two-wire level switch, capable of…

Taking fieldbus into hazardous areas
Added: 11 Apr 2001
Control vendors have had to demonstrate that their fieldbus systems can cope with hazardous area op…
Golden nuggets
Added: 11 Apr 2001
Porous gold could become an important material for catalysis, especially in biomedical applications…
Weathering the storm
Added: 11 Apr 2001
The Enhanced Capital Allowance scheme can help companies take some of the sting out of the Climate …
Sweetness fades
Added: 11 Apr 2001
Harry Anderson and colleagues from Oxford University have now found a simple way to stop colour ble…
Plutonium storage made simple
Added: 10 Apr 2001
Chemists at Los Alamos have discovered a new reaction process that may help with the problems invol…
Researchers find new ways to make metal oxides
Added: 4 Apr 2001
Scientists at the US Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory have recently de…

Rubbery plastics produced in Cornell lab
Added: 4 Apr 2001
An entirely new class of rubbery plastics has been produced in the laboratory by a Cornell …

Patented process gives sludge a second chance
Added: 3 Apr 2001
Researchers at the Illinois Institute of Technology have developed and patented a process by which …
RWE-DEA and Deutsche Shell: a petroleum pool
Added: 28 Mar 2001
RWE-DEA Aktiengesellschaft für Mineraloel und Chemie and Deutsche Shell GmbH, have agreed to combi…