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Attractive biodiesel
Added: 18 Aug 2005
A researcher at the University of Missouri-Columbia is working to make biodiesel manufacturing more…
Calder Hall set for decommissioning
Added: 18 Aug 2005
The Nuclear Installations Inspectorate has approved the decommissioning of Calder Hall, Britain’s f…
Shell seeks Fluor services
Added: 18 Aug 2005
Fluor has won a contract to provide engineering and project management services for two of Shell’s …
DTI studies CO2 segregation plan
Added: 18 Aug 2005
The DTI has announced a £40 million package to investigate the feasibility of storing carbon dioxid…
Saudi petchems
Added: 18 Aug 2005
Innovene, the petrochemicals and refining offshoot of BP, has agreed to collaborate on the developm…
Clean coal contracts
Added: 18 Aug 2005
Mitsui Babcock has won a £30 million-plus maintenance contract at the Drax coal-fired power station…
James Robinson to exit UK
Added: 18 Aug 2005
Speciality chemicals producer James Robinson is to close down its plant in Huddersfield, transferri…
Amec makes nuclear investment
Added: 18 Aug 2005
Amec is to buy the ?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /
Intergraph seals alliance with Bechtel
Added: 18 Aug 2005
Bechtel has signed an agreement giving it unlimited use of Intergraph SmartPlant and Plant Design S…
Process and control licence for Dow in Russia
Added: 18 Aug 2005
LUKOIL-Neftekhim is to use Dow Chemical’s Unipol polypropylene process, and the complementary Unipp…
BASF starts up Nanjing complex
Added: 18 Aug 2005
BASF has begun the start-up of its major Asian site, the 220Ha, $2.9 billion complex at ?xml:namesp…
Keeping track of the joints
Added: 18 Aug 2005
Hedley Purvis is finding increasing demand for its Joint Data Management System (JDMS) from major o…
All part of the process
Added: 18 Aug 2005
In the run-up to this year’s PPMA show, we look at how process and packaging is becoming more tight…
Inbuilt quality
Added: 18 Aug 2005
Driven by an initiative from the US FDA, the pharmaceutical industry is beginning to adopt pr…
Refrigeration refresher
Added: 18 Aug 2005
Refrigeration and air conditioning systems are rarely adequately maintained, with the result th…
Smarter clean-up
Added: 18 Aug 2005
Yorkshire-based speciality chemicals producer AH Marks turned to PICME for help in improving its pr…
Optimising paper production
Added: 18 Aug 2005
Faced with rising raw material and energy costs, pulp and paper producers are having to optimise th…
King Coal
Added: 18 Aug 2005
UK-developed clean-coal technologies clearly still have an important role to play both here and abr…
Versatile enzyme
Added: 17 Aug 2005
An unusually active enzyme might provide the key to synthesising a wide variety of potential pharma…
