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What made Milwaukee famous next
Added: 14 Oct 2002
It might have been beer that originally made Milwaukee famous, but duck manure could soon b…

Cash for chromium
Added: 11 Oct 2002
Specialty chemicals company Elementis has agreed to acquire the chromium chemical business of US-ba…
LGC launches new advisory service
Added: 10 Oct 2002
LGC, the UK`s national centre for analytical measurement, has announced a new advisory serv…

Transgenic plants remove arsenic from soil
Added: 9 Oct 2002
A team of researchers, led by a University of Georgia scientist, has developed the first tr…

One step closer to PO
Added: 8 Oct 2002
The Lyondell Chemical Company is building an integrated pilot plant to further develop its propriet…
Rhodia-Ster sold to the Italians
Added: 8 Oct 2002
Specialty chemical manufacturer Rhodia has divested its entire 88.4% interest in Rhodia-ster to Gru…
Empire State acquired for $240 million
Added: 7 Oct 2002
The US-based National Fuel Gas Company has reached an agreement to acquire the Empire State…

Cats from Oxford
Added: 7 Oct 2002
Oxford University researchers have developed a new method for the preparation of catalysts that the…
Eliminating interruptions
Added: 4 Oct 2002
The new Foxboro CFT50 Coriolis mass flow transmitter features patented technology that allo…

Nanocylinders pave way to polymer electronics
Added: 3 Oct 2002
A team of German and American scientists have succeeded in combining conventional organic molecules…
Expanding in Wyoming
Added: 1 Oct 2002
Anadarko Petroleum Corporation has entered into an agreement to acquire Houston-based Howell Corpor…
Scottish and Southern Energy acquires Dynegy Hornsea
Added: 1 Oct 2002
Scottish and Southern Energy has purchased Dynegy Hornsea Ltd from Dynegy Inc for a total cash cons…
BASF expands capacity of polymer dispersion plant in Indonesia
Added: 30 Sep 2002
BASF is to increase the capacity of its polymer dispersion plant located in Cengkareng, Ind…

Celanese purchases emulsions and powders
Added: 27 Sep 2002
Celanese has agreed to purchase the European emulsions and global emulsion powders business of Clar…
US and ExxonMobil Oil settle for $4.7 million
Added: 25 Sep 2002
ExxonMobil Oil Corporation is to pay the United States and the state of California $4.7 mil…

Double-block-and-bleed manifold
Added: 25 Sep 2002
Parker Instrumentation has released a new style of double-block-and-bleed manifold based on…

GE and GLS to jointly develop engineering thermoplastics
Added: 25 Sep 2002
GE Plastics and GLS Corporation are to collaborate on complimentary grades of engineering thermopla…
Synthetic molecular sieve binds water better than zeolites
Added: 24 Sep 2002
Chemists at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have created a new class of materials th…
Taking a wider view
Added: 23 Sep 2002
The engineering, procurement and construction market is driven by achievements, challenges and chan…