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GE And Cisco Go for launch

Added: 8 Jun 2000

GE Industrial Systems and Cisco Systems have formed a new company, GE Cisco Industrial Netw…

Bottle that scent

Added: 5 Jun 2000

Clariant Masterbatches Division has a new formulation technology that will allow fragrances to be c…

Steel recycling improved at Leeds

Added: 5 Jun 2000

A radical new method of recycling steel has been developed by scientists at Leeds Universit…

BASF increases prices for dispersions and raw materials

Added: 26 May 2000

Effective June 1, 2000, BASF will be raising its prices in Europe for dispersions and raw m…

Major Chemical Companies To Launch E-Marketplace

Added: 19 May 2000

ATOFINA, BASF, Bayer, BP Amoco, Dow, DuPont, Mitsui Chemicals, Mitsubishi Chemicals, Rhodia, Rohm a…

Silverado Unveils New Fuel Technology

Added: 8 May 2000

A production facility will be established at the Grant Mill of Silverado Gold Mines in Fairbanks, A…

Saudi orders following

Added: 3 May 2000

AMEC has secured two contracts from Saudi Aramco and its European affiliate, Aramco Oversea…

Chinese cracker

Added: 3 May 2000

China Petrochemical has awarded Stone & Webster a contract for the expansion and revamping …

BASF pays $3.8billion for agrochem position

Added: 3 May 2000

With its proposed $3.8billion acquisition of Cyanamid, BASF is to double the size of its ag…

Raising the roof

Added: 3 May 2000

Raising the roof - on the grand scale. Using two giant fans, the 770tonne roof of one of th…

China tightens up its interests

Added: 3 May 2000

DSM Fibre Intermediates and Guangdong Xinhui Meida Nylon will form a joint venture for the …

Coal in China

Added: 3 May 2000

Strachan & Henshaw has been awarded a contract worth £5.25 million for the supply of a seco…

Engineers challenge Chancellor

Added: 3 May 2000

According to the Engineering Employers' Federation, the failure of the Chancellor of the Ex…

Piping cost estimates (pt 6)

Added: 3 May 2000

After last month's quick dart around the world of labour costs we return to our series on estimatin…

Filter firms find new owners

Added: 3 May 2000

Hosokawa Micron International has sold its MikroPul and Menardi-Criswell subsidiaries to Be…

AMEC profits up in 1999

Added: 3 May 2000

AMEC has reported a 35 per cent increase in total operating profit for 1999 to £77.2million…

Sempel's single-screw set

Added: 3 May 2000

Intended for isolation duties on medium to high pressure pipelines, the VA500 series from S…

Extended offer for BOC Group

Added: 3 May 2000

Air Liquide, Air Products and the government panel on takeovers and mergers in the UK have …

Frothy lager is a level challenge

Added: 3 May 2000

Kronenberg beer, producing premium lagers at its facilities in Champigneulles, France, was …

Virgin materials to carry ultra-pure compounds

Added: 3 May 2000

Gas and liquid control distributors Boiswood is supplying the Furon UPM 1000 range of diaph…