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Small can be just as profitable
Added: 4 Jun 2003
Dr. Mike Spear looks back at the company that was Invensys and contrasts its role in the industry w…Feat of clay is a pearl
Added: 4 Jun 2003
Researchers from Oklahoma State University, although hundreds of miles from any oyster beds, have …Coal-to-oil technique
Added: 4 Jun 2003
Aker Kvaerner is to join forces with ABB to build a coal liquefaction plant in Inner Mongol…
Plug into all-purpose measurement system
Added: 4 Jun 2003
A new modular 'building block' system for level measurement, switching and pressure has bee…
Biotrickling filters beat scrubbers
Added: 4 Jun 2003
Chemical engineers at the University of California, Riverside, have developed an environmen…
Low-cost gas heating
Added: 4 Jun 2003
Many small-scale process heating applications can only be met by electric heating methods, …
Green materials
Added: 4 Jun 2003
Stuart Nathan looks at some of the advances in processing techniques which are making polymer produ…Microbes make bleaching greener
Added: 3 Jun 2003
A newly discovered enzyme may be the key to transforming industrial bleaching from environmentally …Encapsulated seals
Added: 27 May 2003
Precision Polymer Engineering has developed a range of white encapsulated o-ring seals to tackle th…Bacteria and catalysts
Added: 22 May 2003
Bacteria could soon have a major role to play in recycling precious metals from spent autom…
Fine chemicals deal probed by EC
Added: 22 May 2003
The European Commission has launched a detailed investigation into the planned acquisition of the V…Dumping the defoamers
Added: 21 May 2003
Vulcan Performance Chemicals is to sell its industrial water treatment and pulp and paper businesse…I can't believe it
Added: 19 May 2003
Unilever is to sell its Van den Bergh Oils business in the UK to Pura Foods, a subsidiary of the Ar…In ferment
Added: 13 May 2003
Bacteria are used throughout the agriculture, food and beverage industries to impart flavour and ot…Chemicals head to the Middle East
Added: 13 May 2003
Ciba Specialty Chemicals and Astra Polymers are to co-operate in the production and marketi…
Sugars into polymers
Added: 12 May 2003
Cambridge, MA-based Metabolix plans a two-year project to reengineer the central metabolism of Esch…Controlling the temperature
Added: 8 May 2003
Mike Irvin takes a look at current developments and trends in temperature controllers for process a…ABB wins $22 million process control contract
Added: 8 May 2003
ABB has won orders worth $22 million from Vattenfall Europe Generation, Berlin, to optimise the pro…Matchstick figures
Added: 8 May 2003
Small enough to fit on the head of a match, Hero Electronics' Sensirion digital integrated …
Hydrogen to power Freeport
Added: 8 May 2003
Dow Chemical is working with GM to determine whether GM's hydrogen fuel cells can be used t…
