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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 (£…