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Recherche, Forschung, Ricerche, Investigación, Tutkimus
Added: 19 Apr 2004
Gwilym Roberts looks at the European Union's plans to increase spending on R&D across the Member St…
Clean building
Added: 19 Apr 2004
A consortium of European firms in the chemicals and construction sectors are testing a rang…

Reservoir blocks
Added: 19 Apr 2004
Researchers from Ohio State University have found a way to use supercritical carbon dioxide to forc…
Competition feeds growth
Added: 19 Apr 2004
Consumer concerns over hygiene and food safety will drive 'slow but steady revenue growth' for prod…
Bayer prepares to split
Added: 19 Apr 2004
German chemical major Bayer is to split off a large portion of its chemicals business into …

Safety first
Added: 19 Apr 2004
This year marks two significant anniversaries in the annals of process plant safety - or ra…

Channel mapping
Added: 1 Apr 2004
A new fibre optic self-healing ring multiplexer from TC Communications targets SCADA, traffic contr…
Fluorinated resin gets recycled
Added: 25 Mar 2004
Asahi Glass and Nittetsu Chemical Engineering have developed a new process that breaks fluo…

A great attraction
Added: 15 Mar 2004
The question of who can call themselves a process or chemical engineer, and therefore practise thei…

Fluor takes the LION's share
Added: 15 Mar 2004
US-based EPC contractor Fluor is to take charge of a major clean fuels project in South Afr…

Qualified response
Added: 15 Mar 2004
The European Union is attempting to clarify rules on how professionals can move between member stat…
Easy digital thermometer
Added: 15 Mar 2004
Horiba Instrument's new infrared thermometer, the isquare, records and displays both the visual ima…
REACH threat to Belgian chemicals
Added: 15 Mar 2004
The Belgian chemical industry could lose up to 30% of its products as a result of the European Unio…
Bacteria power
Added: 10 Mar 2004
A new twist on the established technology of using bacteria to treat wastewater could make …

Photo finish
Added: 10 Mar 2004
Researchers from the US Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratories have developed a techni…
Second-hand cyclotron boosts PET scan centre
Added: 10 Mar 2004
The University of Birmingham has become the home for the first centre in the world to combine a cyc…
Avecia to sell Biocides business
Added: 5 Mar 2004
Avecia has signed a definitive agreement to sell its Biocides business to Arch Chemicals fo…

BASF acquires US foam producer
Added: 3 Mar 2004
BASF has acquired Minneapolis, Minnesota-based Foam Enterprises (FEI), a supplier of rigid polyuret…
Selling food ingredients
Added: 2 Mar 2004
The Irish-based Kerry Group is to acquire the Quest Food Ingredients business from the ICI Group fo…