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      <title>Dow to help Beijing sustain water conservation</title>
      <description>Dow Technology support for post-olympic Beijing industrial water reuse programs which will help free up greater drinking water supply.</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Dow Technology Licensing</category>
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      <title>Reproducible development of specialty polymers</title>
      <description>The Radleys Lara Controlled Laboratory Reactor enables FaraPack Polymers to more rapidly and reproducibly scale up production of custom and specialty polymers developed for contract customers</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
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      <title>DSM Science and Technology Awards</title>
      <description>The first prize in the DSM Science and Technology Awards (South) 2008 goes to German researcher Andreas Walther for his PhD research in the field of polymeric materials using Janus particles</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>DSM Engineering Plastics</category>
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      <title>Dow MABS technology for Chinese ABS plant</title>
      <description>Dow Technology Licensing announces that LiaoNing HuaJin Chemical has selected Dow MABS technology for its new 140kta acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS) facility</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Dow Technology Licensing</category>
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      <title>Chemical distribution industry accidents increase</title>
      <description>One aspect of the UK chemical distribution industry record for year-on-year improvement ended in 2007: the number of accidents increased and has almost returned to the levels reported two years ago</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
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      <title>Jacob Fleming benchmarks maintenance procedures</title>
      <description>Jacob Fleming, a leading B2B strategic meeting organiser, have created their next conference by demand from the Chemical Industry, on chemical/petro-chemical plant maintenance</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
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      <title>Report on 'Developments in polyolefin additives'</title>
      <description>Applied Market Information brought together leading experts to debate the latest developments at its conference on Polyolefin Additives held in April 2008 in Cologne, and summarises the meeting:</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Applied Market Information</category>
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      <title>PlantWeb boosts bioethanol plant performance</title>
      <description>Emerson project engineering and PlantWeb architecture has enabled the Tarkim bioethanol plant to start up a month early and produce almost thirty percent above target levels </description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Emerson Process Management</category>
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      <title>CBA appoints new Chairman and Vice-Chairman</title>
      <description>The CBA AGM has approved the appointment of their new Chairman, Francis Osborn, from the ISW Group, and Vice Chairman, Neville Prior, of the Cornelius Group</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Chemical Business Association</category>
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      <title>Growth in chemical distribution despite challenges</title>
      <description>According to the findings of a new report, the UK chemical distribution sector looks set to see positive growth over the next 4-5 years despite facing some tough challenges ahead</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Editorial Articles: Miscellaneous submissions</category>
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      <title>New Kureha PGA plant established in West Virginia</title>
      <description>Kureha is to establish a greenfield production facility for polyglycolic acid (PGA) in West Virginia, using a breakthrough technology to manufacture this new biodegradable resin</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>West Virginia Commerce</category>
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      <title>Kureha breaks ground for new US polymer plant</title>
      <description>State and local dignitaries joined Kureha as the company broke ground for its new, high-performance polymer, Polyglycolic Acid (PGA), plant in West Virginia</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Editorial Articles: Miscellaneous submissions</category>
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      <title>ABB wins USD123M chemicals order in Chile</title>
      <description>ABB has won a contract worth about USD123 million to design, construct and provide automation for a new fertiliser processing plant in Chile for SQM, Sociedad Quimica y Minera de Chile</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 10 Mar 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>ABB Automation Tech (Instrumentation + Automation)</category>
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      <title>AxFlow signs up Slack and Parr in the UK</title>
      <description>AxFlow UK is to take on the distribution of the Slack and Parr range of industrial external gear pumps for the UK market</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
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      <title>CBA Diamond Award Winners</title>
      <description>The Chemical Business Association announced its Diamond Award winners for 2008 at a special ceremony in Manchester on Wednesday 6 February</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Chemical Business Association</category>
      <link>http://www.processingtalk.com/news/chx/chx107.html</link>
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      <title>Greener extraction of nature's whitest mineral</title>
      <description>A new process for refining titanium dioxide mineral ores produces less waste products, and gives an average yield of up to 97% TiO2, compared with the current industry average of 85%</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>University of Leeds</category>
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      <title>Framework contract with INEOS Manufacturing</title>
      <description>Aker Kvaerner Germany has signed a three-year agreement with INEOS Manufacturing Deutschland to provide engineering services for their plants located in Cologne and Marl, Germany</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Aker Kvaerner Engineering Services</category>
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      <title>Elga maintains BP water plant reliability</title>
      <description>Elga Process Water was on hand to provide engineering repairs when the ion exchange plant feeding steam generators for the BP Hull site acetic acid plant showed signs of failure</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
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      <title>New thermoplastic polyurethanes (TPU) investment</title>
      <description>Huntsman has announced it will expand capacity at its Osnabruck, Germany TPU facility by investing in a new line to produce specialist high performance TPU grades</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 27 Nov 2007 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Huntsman Advanced Materials</category>
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      <title>Seminar on law, commerce and industry standards </title>
      <description>CBA has developed a new seminar which helps chemical supply chain companies to navigate the interactions between the law, commercial priorities and industry standards, such as product stewardship</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 12 Nov 2007 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Chemical Business Association</category>
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      <title>Weighing requirements for the Chemical Industry</title>
      <description>The weighing industry and the needs of the chemical industry have seen a number of significant changes over the past decade:  Rod Morgan, Sales Director at Applied Weighing, presents a review</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 05 Oct 2007 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Applied Weighing International</category>
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      <title>Acid resistant brick lined towers now available</title>
      <description>Koch Knight announces the world-wide availability of fully-assembled acid resistant brick lined towers, as turn-key tower solutions for chemical processing industry</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 29 Aug 2007 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
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      <title>GBP2M engineering lab gets champagne opening</title>
      <description>A new multimillion pound engineering research laboratory will be officially unveiled at the University of Bradford next week during an international conference on polymer process engineering</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 03 Jul 2007 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>University of Bradford</category>
      <link>http://www.processingtalk.com/news/uyo/uyo101.html</link>
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      <title>CIDX presentation at ARC chemical industry Forum</title>
      <description>The ARC Advisory Group presents a Forum entitled "Winning Strategies for Global Manufacturers" on 26 June, and introduces John Wheeler of the Chemical Industry Data Exchange</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 26 Jun 2007 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>ARC Advisory Group</category>
      <link>http://www.processingtalk.com/news/ajw/ajw128.html</link>
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      <title>If you can't stand the heat...use a deodorant?</title>
      <description>Anti-perspirants typically contain aluminium compounds - until recently, the determination of these products has proven to be difficult, but it is now available using the Metrohm Titrotherm</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 18 Jun 2007 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Metrohm UK</category>
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      <title>Dow wins UNIPOL PP technology contract in China</title>
      <description>Shenhua Baotou Coal Chemicals in China is to build a 300KTA polypropylene plant, using UNIPOL PP technology from Dow for a new 300 KTA polypropylene (PP) facility</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 07 Jun 2007 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Dow Technology Licensing</category>
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      <title>Choline chloride technology licensed in Thailand</title>
      <description>Thai Choline Chloride Company has selected the Davy Process Technology methylamines and choline chloride process technologies for its new facility at Map Ta Phut in Thailand</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 31 May 2007 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Davy Process Technology</category>
      <link>http://www.processingtalk.com/news/dvy/dvy122.html</link>
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      <title>900 KTA Unipol PP process plant for Reliance</title>
      <description>Reliance Petroleum has selected the Unipol PP process from Dow Global Technologies for a new world-scale polypropylene (PP) production facility at Jamnagar in India</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2007 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Dow Technology Licensing</category>
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