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A repeat near miss
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Daiki Axis Co. (Matsuyama City, Japan; www.daiki-axis.com) has developed a… A new proppant
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Researchers from the Australian National University (ANU; Canberra; www.anu.edu.au), and… November Chementator Briefs
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A repeat near missIt is with extreme reticence that I author this page,…
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Last month, Carbo Ceramics Inc. (Houston; www.carboceramics.com) introduced KryptoSphere, an…
Last month saw the start of a five-year joint research…
The Linde Group (Munich, Germany; www.linde.com) has developed a new…
An international team of researchers claims to have developed carbon…
KIT makes ‘gasoline’ for the first timeLast month, the synthesis stage of the bioliq (biomass to…
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Researchers from the Australian National University (ANU; Canberra; www.anu.edu.au), and…
Reforming catalyst Haldor Topsøe A/S (Lyngby, Denmark; www.topsoe.com) has…
Harvest Power (Waltham, Mass.; www.harvestpower.com) recently began operation of the…
Heat Transfer for Huge-Scale FermentationIndustrial microbiology continues to hold the promise of producing an…
Short-chain hydrocarbons have been produced for the first time by…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) has produced its first commercial…
Wacker Chemie AG (Munich, Germany; www.wacker.com) plans to expand its…
Caloric Anlagenbau GmbH (Gräfelfing, Germany; www.caloric.com) has been awarded a…
GE (www.ge.com) and Carbon Holdings today signed a US$500 million…
Foster Wheeler AG (Zug, Switzerland; www.fwc.com) says that a subsidiary…
Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.; www.airproducts.com) has signed a contract…
Stamicarbon B.V. (Sittard, The Netherlands; www.stamicarbon.com) , the Licensing and…
ThyssenKrupp Industrial Solutions AG (Hamburgh, Germany; www.thyssenkrupp.com) has reached an…
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