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A new class of catalyst
Added: 31 Mar 2003
The Dow Chemical Company and Symyx Technologies have discovered a new class of single-site catalyst…
Greenhouse gasses reduced
Added: 28 Mar 2003
Emissions of the 'basket' of six greenhouse gases, weighted by global warming potential, are fallin…
BP planning new PTA plant in Belgium
Added: 27 Mar 2003
BP announced today that it has begun detailed engineering design for the construction of a new worl…

Gas Down Under
Added: 26 Mar 2003
ExxonMobil subsidiary, Mobil Exploration has discovered 20 trillion cubic feet of recoverable gas i…
Magnetic flowmeter market to reach $650 Million by 2007
Added: 24 Mar 2003
The worldwide magnetic flowmeter market, which totalled nearly $590 million in 2002, is projected t…
Going for the ozone
Added: 24 Mar 2003
Wedeco has acquired Trailigaz Ozone - the third largest ozone water treatment technology company in…
Duke divests 50% interest for $306 million
Added: 20 Mar 2003
Duke Energy North America has signed a definitive agreement to sell its 50-percent interest in Duke…
Procter & Gamble goes for Wella
Added: 19 Mar 2003
Procter & Gamble has signed an agreement to purchase a controlling interest in Wella from its major…
Selling pipes
Added: 18 Mar 2003
Halliburton has sold its Wellstream business to European buyout group Candover Partners for $136 mi…
Cleaning chaffy seed
Added: 17 Mar 2003
A seed cleaner that smoothly conditions and separates some of the toughest seeds to harvest…

'Green' synthesis plant wins RSC award
Added: 13 Mar 2003
New awards for innovation in teamwork were presented by The Royal Society of Chemistry at a…

From pilot to product
Added: 13 Mar 2003
With its customers cutting back on R&D, polymer manufacturer Synthomer called in project engineers …
How to play the energy game
Added: 12 Mar 2003
If, as Harold Wilson once said, 'a week is a long time in politics', what are we to make of…

Growing the polymer business in China
Added: 12 Mar 2003
With an increase in per capita income and greater availability of varied consumer products,…

Validating CFD with tomography
Added: 12 Mar 2003
Although it's a popular tool in reactor design, computational fluid dynamics modelling can be diffi…

Ultra-pure crystallisation
Added: 12 Mar 2003
A combination of crystallisation and a novel wash column has led to a process technology capable of…
Food for thought
Added: 12 Mar 2003
Environmental legislation is now high on the corporate agenda for the UK food and drink industry. H…
Baffling techniques
Added: 12 Mar 2003
Oscillatory flow mixing may have a major impact on some of the most specialised sectors of the proc…
ECS applications are on the increase
Added: 12 Mar 2003
The UK Enhanced Capital Allowance Scheme, which allows companies to claim tax relief on the costs o…
Bio boost for AMEC
Added: 12 Mar 2003
AMEC has been awarded the contract to provide engineering services to the new National Biom…