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Bayer looks to the future
Added: 11 May 2005
Bayer, in its first year without its Lanxess bulk chemicals operation, saw sales and earnings climb…
Winfrith decommissioning contract
Added: 11 May 2005
UKAEA has awarded a £6million contract to decommission the Steam Generating Heavy Water Reactor at …
Scrub success
Added: 11 May 2005
BASF has started up its first plant in Thailand to remove carbon dioxide from natural gas using an …
Costs a concern for Hambrecht
Added: 11 May 2005
Raw materials costs are the main barrier to BASF’s smooth progress in 2005, says chairman Jürgen Ha…
DSM expansion
Added: 11 May 2005
Aker Kvaerner has won a contract for the first phase of engineering for a project to expand DSM Eng…
South Hook control contract
Added: 11 May 2005
Yokogawa has won a £4 million lump sum turnkey contract to provide instrumentation and controls for…
Queen’s Award for Newson Gale
Added: 11 May 2005
Newson Gale is among the winners of this year’s Queen’s Awards for Enterprise, for increasing the o…
Networks set fair
Added: 11 May 2005
Mike Spear reports on some of the highlights of the Hanover Fair , including a gathering of all the…
Market forces
Added: 10 May 2005
The European Union’s Emissions Trading Scheme proved controversial from the off. Stuart Nathan repo…
Coal to liquids boost
Added: 10 May 2005
Foster Wheeler is to participate in a feasibility study for two 80 000 bpd coal-to-liquids faciliti…
Indole synthesis route ‘will cut costs’
Added: 10 May 2005
A new reaction to form the carbon skeleton of an indole molecule could reduce costs and help cut to…
Bubbling under
Added: 10 May 2005
Keshav Ruthiya, a doctoral student at Eindhoven University of Technology, has devised a way to boos…
Water influence on ionics
Added: 10 May 2005
New research on ionic liquids — molten salts with applications as ‘green’ solvents — has revealed t…
Coating sensation
Added: 10 May 2005
A technique for coating conductive polymers onto miniaturised devices could lead to a new generatio…
Iranian anger at Basell sale
Added: 9 May 2005
Executives at Iran’s National Petrochemical Company (NPC) are blaming American pressure for their f…
Repellent when wet
Added: 6 May 2005
A US chemical engineering team has developed a novel material that becomes water repellent when wet.
Cracks, splits and holes
Added: 4 May 2005
Swellable variants of thermoplastic elastomers react to leaking water and thus stop the leaks.
A clean source of power
Added: 4 May 2005
Cleaning up wastewater and generating electricity at the same time — it might seem too good to be t…
Next generation solvents
Added: 3 May 2005
A new spinout company specializing in the development of a new generation of solvents which are non…
