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Cleaner fuels with teamwork

Added: 6 Oct 2000

An innovative approach to the use of 3D plant design software and partnerships between contractors,…

Making more Topas

Added: 3 Oct 2000

Ticona, the technical polymers business of Celanese AG, Frankfurt, has opened a new production plan…

ABB gets $260-million offshore gas

Added: 19 Sep 2000

ABB has won a $260-million contract to design the offshore Khuff gas project in Abu Dhabi, …

New coating outperforms the competition

Added: 14 Sep 2000

High performance coatings have historically been made with solvents but new advances in waterborne…

As the petrol runs dry…

Added: 14 Sep 2000

The petrol tankers have stopped rolling. The filling stations have run dry. And young mothe…

British Polythene Sells its Flexibles

Added: 13 Sep 2000

British Polythene Industries PLC (BPI) has exchanged contracts for the sale of its Flexibles Busine…

Bayer to acquire paper chemicals business

Added: 8 Sep 2000

The Bayer Group, based in Leverkusen, Germany, plans to purchase the paper chemicals business of th…

Bran + Luebbe and PE co-host Processing Forum

Added: 7 Sep 2000

Process systems company Bran + Luebbe and Centaur Publishing's Process Engineering and Control and …

Aspen acquires Icarus

Added: 6 Sep 2000

Aspen Technology have closed a transaction to acquire Icarus Corporation, a provider of software th…

Celanese AG buys polyvinyl alcohol business

Added: 6 Sep 2000

Celanese AG has signed an agreement to purchase the assets of the polyvinyl alcohol busines…

Eastman launches new Reactol polymer for aerospace industry

Added: 24 Aug 2000

Eastman Chemical Company has launched Reactol PE125, a polyester resin with high impact and…

ABB banner of solutions

Added: 22 Aug 2000

ABB will be branding its instrumentation division under the ABB Automation banner to meet t…

On-line turbidity measurement

Added: 22 Aug 2000

Following its acquisition of the UK distribution rights for all Sigrist products, Milltroni…

Tekleen helps Scapa flow

Added: 22 Aug 2000

Cable compound manufacturer Scapa Polymerics uses water drawn from its on-site cooling towe…

Vital monitoring

Added: 22 Aug 2000

Condition monitoring tools are a vital part of diagnostic engineering. Pruftechnik's Vibrotip data …

Alarming news from OEM

Added: 22 Aug 2000

Available from OEM Automatic is the new IMT range of pressure gauges with built-in alarm in…

Final stick for pump valves

Added: 22 Aug 2000

Owens Corning Fiberglas has replaced its pumps which are used for transferring chemicals fr…

BOC split falls foul of FTC

Added: 22 Aug 2000

The US Federal Trade Commission has thwarted the joint bid by Air Products and Air Liquide …

Cartridge seal aims for utilities market

Added: 22 Aug 2000

John Crane's new 4610 cartridge seal is priced so that it can compete with traditional glan…

Invensys takes dip with bid for Baan

Added: 22 Aug 2000

Control and automation conglomerate Invensys last month made a cash offer of f762million (£…