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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…

Pumping up rechargeables

Added: 28 Mar 2001

INEEL chemists have given lithium rechargeables a new heart - a solid centre with unique properties…