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High speed vacuum action

Added: 28 Feb 2001

BOC Edwards has upgraded its range of mechanical booster vacuum pumps for industrial applic…

A new use for your old crab

Added: 27 Feb 2001

It might not seem like a big deal. But research into processing crab waste has won a Maryland-based…

BP and Nova collaborate to commercialise new catalysts

Added: 22 Feb 2001

BP and Nova Chemicals are to jointly develop and commercialise Nova Chemicals' Ziegler-Natt…

The cooler way to control

Added: 21 Feb 2001

Biopharma Process Systems has launched a new range of compact, light-weight cooling units d…

Thermo King develops cool transport system

Added: 19 Feb 2001

Ingersoll-Rand's Thermo King unit has developed an innovative transport refrigeration syste…

France for fuel

Added: 19 Feb 2001

Air Liquide and Nuvera Fuel Cells are to form a joint venture that will develop and market …

Calpine plans to acquire Encal for $1.2 billion

Added: 12 Feb 2001

Calpine Corporation plans to acquire all of the common shares of Encal Energy, a Calgary, Alberta-b…

Schlumberger offers to purchase Sema

Added: 12 Feb 2001

Schlumberger Limited, a major player in the oil and gas industry, has made an offer to purchase Sem…

BP adds metallocene catalyst technology to polyethylene process

Added: 12 Feb 2001

BP is to offer its new polyethylene production technology for licence. The technology combines the …

DuPont forms fuel cell business

Added: 9 Feb 2001

DuPont has formed a fuel cell business unit to pursue growth in the emerging proton exchang…

Henkel to acquire Metal Treatment Chemicals Group from Atofina

Added: 8 Feb 2001

The Henkel Group and Atofina have entered into an agreement on the acquisition of Atofina's Metal T…

Terrific timber

Added: 7 Feb 2001

Researchers from CSIRO in Australia have found another use for supercritical carbon dioxide - impro…

Tip-top pH protection

Added: 7 Feb 2001

With its TOP 68 electrode, Endress and Hauser claims a world first by providing IP68 sealin…

Bursting the bubbles in gas-liquid mixing

Added: 7 Feb 2001

Gas-liquid mixing is common within many process sectors, but poses some special problems for engine…

The changing face of e-commerce

Added: 7 Feb 2001

Stuart Nathan looks at how different companies are finding different ways of developing and implem…

Huntsman to acquire Dow's ethyleneamines

Added: 7 Feb 2001

Huntsman International, a subsidiary of Huntsman Corporation, has signed an agreement to ac…

Software helps to save water

Added: 7 Feb 2001

Process integration has been applied to water flow and consumption, with encouraging results.

Seeing the cold light of sustainable development

Added: 7 Feb 2001

New scientific evidence published this month in Science magazine points to a thinning of th…

Relieve the pressure

Added: 7 Feb 2001

Are you feeling the pressure yet? In just over a year's time, the Pressure Equipment Directive will…

Hydrogen storage joint venture unveiled

Added: 6 Feb 2001

Shell Hydrogen, Hydro-Quebec (HQ) and Gesellschaft fur Elektrometallurgie (GfE) are to establish a …