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Automating the past
Added: 9 Sep 2003
The food and beverage sectors are relative newcomers to the field of automated processes, and some …
Making your remote monitoring work
Added: 9 Sep 2003
Remote monitoring can transform the ways in which companies operate and manage their processes, but…
Experience counts
Added: 8 Sep 2003
The launch of Bayer Technology Services as an independent company brings a new player to the global…
Gentle touch for distillation
Added: 8 Sep 2003
A new distillation process developed by German process firm GE Wiegand could bring major be…

Follow the sun to global projects
Added: 8 Sep 2003
Mike Spear reports on how a German company engineered a new plant in the US using the latest engine…
Sandia's shell collection
Added: 8 Sep 2003
Synthetic crystals with structures similar to seashells could form the basis of a new gener…

Phosgene-free process cuts polycarbonate costs
Added: 8 Sep 2003
Korean chemicals manufacturer LG Chem has developed a new process for making polycarbonate in less …
Ondeo Nalco acquired for $4.2 billion
Added: 4 Sep 2003
A consortium of private equity firms comprised of The Blackstone Group, Apollo Management and Goldm…
Purchasing additives
Added: 4 Sep 2003
Rhodia has sold its textile and paper additives business based in Sausheim (Alsace), France…

Chinese power plant gets automated
Added: 2 Sep 2003
Emerson Process Management has won a $10 million contract from the Shaanxi HanCheng Second Power Co…
Block and bleed
Added: 2 Sep 2003
At Offshore Europe today, Parker Instrumentation launched a range of one-piece double-block-and-ble…

Degussa sells vitamins to Reilly
Added: 1 Sep 2003
Degussa is to transfer its vitamin B3 manufacturing business in Antwerp, Belgium to Reilly Industri…
Buying oil and gas
Added: 26 Aug 2003
Patina Oil and Gas Corporation has agreed to acquire all of the assets of Cordillera Energy…

Marathon sells interests in Canada
Added: 22 Aug 2003
Marathon Oil Corporation is to sell its upstream interests in Western Canada to Husky Energy in a d…
Shell signs gas contracts for East China Sea
Added: 20 Aug 2003
Shell has finalised an agreement to explore, develop and market natural gas, oil and conden…

Cleaning up coal power
Added: 15 Aug 2003
Innogy has applied to the UK Department of Trade and Industry for consent to build a Flue Gas Desul…
Commission tackles fluorinated gases
Added: 13 Aug 2003
The European Commission has adopted a proposal for a regulation to reduce emissions of fluo…

OMV and Yukos sign 28 million Euro crude deal
Added: 13 Aug 2003
Austrian energy group OMV today signed a deal with Russia's Yukos for construction of a 28 million …
Venting and flaring
Added: 13 Aug 2003
The Shell Oil Company has agreed to pay $49 million to settle claims under the US False Claims Act …