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CB&I (The Woodlands, Tex.; www.cbi.com) has been awarded a contract… Illa International and Neste Jacobs to co-operate in the phenol-process business
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Stamicarbon B.V. (Stittard, the Netherlands; www.stamicarbon.com), the Licensing and IP… Sulzer awarded contract for biopolymer production Plant in Asia
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Praxair Canada Inc., a subsidiary of Praxair, Inc. (Danbury, Conn.;… Air Liquide to develop new combustion technology for 2nd generation biofuels
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UOP LLC (Des Plaines, Ill.; www.uop.com), a Honeywell company, announced… Parsons awarded SAWS brackish-water desalination program
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Solvay S.A. (Brussels, Belgium; www.solvay) says that it will build… Jacobs receives contract from BASF for Antwerp site
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Black & Veatch (Houston; www.bv.com) announced today the availability of… Air Products’ LNG technology selected for Petronas in Malaysia
Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.; www.airproducts.com) has received an LNG… Technip awarded contract for a sulfur-recovery-unit modification in Bahrain
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As part of the Obama Administration’s all-of-the-above energy strategy, the… KeyGene and Kultevat to develop commercial rubber production from Russian dandelion
The biotech companies Kultevat (Carlsbad, Calif.; www.kultevat.com) and KeyGene (Wageningen,… Veolia Environnement and Total inaugurate Osilub recycling plant in Normandy
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A process developed by researchers at the University of Texas…
Following a positive feasibility study, American Vanadium Corp. (Vancouver, B.C.;…
A newly launched gas chromatography (GC) device from Analytical Pixels…
Ken-ichi Tominaga and colleagues at the National Institute of Advanced…
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A new and inexpensive way to produce TiFe — an…
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An Australian team has developed a structure made of a…
Domtar (Montreal, Québec, Canada; www.domtar.com) has successfully started up a…
CB&I (The Woodlands, Tex.; www.cbi.com) has been awarded a contract…
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UOP LLC (Des Plaines, Ill.; www.uop.com), a Honeywell company, announced…
As part of the Obama Administration’s all-of-the-above energy strategy, the…
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Air Liquide (Paris, France; www.airliquide.com) has signed a partnership agreement…
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Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.; www.airproducts.com) announced the signing of…
UOP LLC (Des Plaines, Ill.; www.uop.com), a Honeywell company, announced…
Parsons (Pasadena, Calif.; www.parsons.com) and a joint-venture (JV) partner, has…
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Lanxess AG (Leverkusen, Germany; www.lanxess.com) has started up — on…
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Black & Veatch (Houston; www.bv.com) announced today the availability of…
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Technip (Paris, France; www.technip.com) was awarded by the Bahrain Petroleum…
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