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Rockwell and E + H to team up
Added: 23 Feb 2005
Rockwell Automation and Endress + Hauser have joined forces to develop new methods of configuring p…

Adding the right mix
Added: 23 Feb 2005
With the increasing popularity of home breadmaking machines, it's tempting to think that just about…

Leak-free start-up
Added: 23 Feb 2005
Ensuring the integrity of critical flanges and joints on a process plant is a prerequisite of safe …

Innovation nation
Added: 23 Feb 2005
Industry in the UK lives or dies by its innovation and technology. This is true of every sector, an…

Codes for nuclear safety
Added: 23 Feb 2005
Simulation programs to prevent critical failures in nuclear reactors are being updated by researche…

Exploiting the channels
Added: 23 Feb 2005
Lab-on-a-chip technology is bringing process industry techniques of flow management and continuous …

Supply-side sustainability
Added: 23 Feb 2005
With the REACH regulations looming, process companies in the chemicals sector are taking stock of t…

CIA cheers EC
Added: 23 Feb 2005
The UK Chemical Industries Association has welcomed a new plan for economic growth and employment i…

Going green
Added: 23 Feb 2005
In an article in The Guardian this month, Adrian Wilkes, chairman of the Environmental Industries C…

Dow to build new facility
Added: 10 Feb 2005
Dow has announced plans to build an integrated Specialty Alkanolamines facility in Plaquemine, Loui…
$500 million terminal
Added: 10 Feb 2005
A Black & Veatch-led consortium has been awarded a $500 million contract by a Sempra subsidiary to …
Kemira acquires Dutch Verdugt
Added: 8 Feb 2005
Kemira Oyj is to acquire the Dutch specialty chemicals company Verdugt from the internation…

Novel encapsulation
Added: 7 Feb 2005
BASF Venture Capital is investing two million Euros in the German biotechnology group Cavis Microca…

Cleaner chlorine
Added: 7 Feb 2005
Hydro Polymers is to spend 85 million Euros moving its existing chlorine plant at Rafnes, N…

Open channel flow meter
Added: 4 Feb 2005
Solartron Mobrey's HART-compatible MCU FLOW open channel flow meter and control unit can pr…

Norwegian gas
Added: 3 Feb 2005
Canadian oil and gas producer Talisman Energy is to buy all of the outstanding shares of Pe…

Coatings sold off
Added: 3 Feb 2005
Altana Chemie, the specialty chemicals division of Altana, is divesting its Austrian subsidiary Rem…
Gas phase catalysts
Added: 3 Feb 2005
Basell has introduced a new family of Ziegler catalysts that are designed for use in gas ph…

Million-dollar challenge
Added: 2 Feb 2005
The US National Academy of Engineering (NAE) is to award a $1 million prize for a practical…

Taking toxins out of the water
Added: 31 Jan 2005
A researcher at the Washington University in St. Louis has discovered an effective way to r…