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New electricity market goes live

Added: 27 Mar 2001

UK Energy Minister Peter Hain is confident that the New Electricity Trading Arrangements introduced…

Buckybowls by the bucketful

Added: 26 Mar 2001

Scientists may be closer to unlocking the mystery of buckyballs thanks to research being conducted …

Taking the odour out of clothes

Added: 23 Mar 2001

Scientists at North Carolina State University have found new ways to make protective fabrics last l…

Grace forms joint venture with Chevron

Added: 20 Mar 2001

The Davison business unit of W. R. Grace has joined with Chevron Products to form Advanced…

VARTM process improves missile fabrication

Added: 16 Mar 2001

Lockheed Martin Space Systems and structural design engineers from the US Fleet Ballistic Missile (…

Responsible Care Certification

Added: 15 Mar 2001

Stuart Aaron, CIA Responsible Care Manager, and Mike Welch, CIA management systems consultant, answ…

Membrane filtration in brewing

Added: 15 Mar 2001

Membrane technology has been used in the brewing and distilling industries for many years in a vari…

Byers hails winning of largest ever overseas offshore contract

Added: 15 Mar 2001

UK Trade and Industry Secretary Stephen Byers today described the £300m contract to build an oil-pr…

Keeping track of process humidity

Added: 15 Mar 2001

McQueen Cairns has now launched what director Robin Cairns says is 'the first method of its kind av…

Walking the tightrope to ensure safety and profits

Added: 15 Mar 2001

'The ensuing slanging match between environment-alists and the industry has been one of the most co…

Enzyme boost for BASF

Added: 14 Mar 2001

Bacteria which live on vegetable oils are the key to a new process to make vitamin B2 at BA…

Brewing up a storm

Added: 14 Mar 2001

Process engineering researchers are looking for new ways to bring modern technology into the brewin…

Taking a spin through centriguges

Added: 14 Mar 2001

Selecting the right centrifuge for a specific duty requires some basic knowledge of the machines th…

Common ground lacking over EC chemicals policy

Added: 14 Mar 2001

Politicians, environmentalists and the chemical industry are at odds over the EC's chemicals policy…

Cash for UK science

Added: 14 Mar 2001

Around £1billion of government funding is to be distributed to universities in the UK, in a…

Plant closures as Ineos cuts back after ICI acquisition

Added: 14 Mar 2001

Over a third of the workforce at Ineos Chlor's UK chlor-alkali operation are to lose their jobs as …

Dow to acquire Rohm and Haas's Ag chemicals

Added: 8 Mar 2001

Dow has purchased Rohm and Haas's Agricultural Chemicals business, including working capital, for a…

Merger of chemical e-markets

Added: 7 Mar 2001

cc-markets and chemplorer, two Internet marketplaces in the chemical and pharmaceutical industries,…

Shell Oil proposes to acquire Barrett Resources

Added: 7 Mar 2001

Shell Oil has made a proposal to acquire all of the outstanding shares of Barrett Resources' common…

Dramatically reducing emissions

Added: 5 Mar 2001

The results of a test of a new diesel fuel additive show reductions in toxic diesel emissions that …