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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…