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$7 billion buys Tosco
Added: 5 Feb 2001
Phillips Petroleum has agreed to purchase Tosco in a $7 billion stock transaction.
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Sticky stuff on screen
Added: 2 Feb 2001
What is claimed to be the first ever web site designed for the sale of epoxy resins and rel…
Swedish Space and Volvo to develop environmentally friendly rocket fuel
Added: 31 Jan 2001
The Swedish Space Corporation and Volvo Aero have formed a joint-venture company to develop environ…Going green in a supercritical way
Added: 30 Jan 2001
Researchers at the Taiwanese Industrial Technology Research Institute have developed a water-saving…How does the tap drip and why should you care?
Added: 29 Jan 2001
Engineers at Purdue University have developed a new mathematical method to calculate the behaviour …Wastewater is the fuel
Added: 29 Jan 2001
FuelCell Energy is to install and operate a 1MW Direct FuelCell power plant in Renton, Washington u…Aspen Technology acquires e-Chemicals
Added: 26 Jan 2001
Aspen Technology has acquired the assets of e-Chemicals, one of the pioneers of Internet-ba…
All of the day and all of the night
Added: 25 Jan 2001
NKK Corporation and DKK-TOA have developed a dioxin precursor analyser, the GDX-2000, that will pr…All swap on the polymer front
Added: 24 Jan 2001
In Europe, BP and Solvay are to combine their European high-density polyethylene (HDPE) businesses…Cleaner engines take to the skies
Added: 22 Jan 2001
Shell Aviation, together with KLM Royal Dutch Airlines and BetzDearborn, has commenced a fl…
Coatings in China
Added: 22 Jan 2001
Bayer is building a plant in the People's Republic of China for the production of polyurethane coat…Fast CFD software for multiphase flows
Added: 17 Jan 2001
AEA Technology has released the latest version of its computational fluid dynamics (CFD) so…
Sticky business under the microscope
Added: 17 Jan 2001
US based NIST has established a consortium to characterise and model the interface and interphases …Titanium takes off
Added: 17 Jan 2001
A new process to refine metallic titanium by electrochemical methods could bring the space-…
Superabsorbents made in Thailand
Added: 16 Jan 2001
BASF has started up a new plant for the production of superabsorbents in Rayong, Thailand. The new …Unlocking the potential of batch processing
Added: 16 Jan 2001
Pharmaceutical companies are increasingly looking for ways to improve the efficiency of their batch…A sign of the times
Added: 16 Jan 2001
The Food and Drug Administration is clamping down. All companies with electronic signatures will ne…BP seeks offers for plastic fabrications and fabrics and fibres
Added: 15 Jan 2001
BP intends to divest its plastic fabrications and fabrics and fibres businesses which currently gen…DuPont and Air Products to produce polishing materials
Added: 11 Jan 2001
DuPont and Air Products and Chemicals have formed a joint venture to develop, manufacture, and mark…