Sulfur Analysis in Fuels: SPECTRO XEPOS Achieves Detection Limit of 1 mg/kg

17-Feb-2003 - With the energy-dispersive XRF system SPECTRO XEPOS for the analysis of sulfur in fuels, SPECTRO advances into measurement ranges that were previously restricted to the significantly more expensive wavelength-dispersive XRF instruments. The bench top XEPOS achieves a detection limit of less than ...

new "GMP KiloLab" in Bayer's Central Organics Pilot Plant

12-Feb-2003 - Providing kilogram quantities of pharmaceutical active ingredients - for phases 1 and 2 of clinical testing, for example - within a minimum of time and with the utmost reliability and safety is a major challenge for every custom manufacturer. Bayer Chemicals, a division of Bayer AG, has a ...

Air Products Uses New Technology to Build Revolutionary Tunnel Freezer

20-Jan-2003 - Air Products announced the launch of the Freshline(TM) Z Tunnel Freezer, a new solution that, for the first time, combines cryogenic refrigeration, indirect heat transfer and impingement technology. The result, the company says, is a product that is setting new standards in terms of cost ...

BOC secures major deal with UK superconducting magnets company

17-Dec-2002 - BOC has today announced that it has signed a ten-year deal with one of the world's leading manufacturers of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) equipment to manage their supply of special gases. The deal with Oxford Magnet Technology (OMT), based in Eynsham, near Oxford, will see BOC invest more ...

Air Liquide wins a major contract to supply oxygen for the steelmaking industry in Australia

10-Dec-2002 - Air Liquide WA Pty Ltd (a 60%-40% joint venture between Air Liquide Australia Ltd and Wesfarmers Energy Ltd) and HIsmelt Operations (a joint venture representing Rio Tinto, Nucor, Mitsubishi, and Shougang) have announced the signing of a fifteen-year contract. In accordance with this contract, ...

Air Products Announces Price Increase for North American Liquid/Bulk Oxygen, Nitrogen, Argon and Hydrogen Customers

03-Dec-2002 - Effective January 1, 2003, or as contracts permit, Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. will increase schedule pricing on liquid/bulk oxygen, nitrogen and hydrogen by six percent and argon by fifteen percent for merchant and government customers in North America. The pricing initiatives are needed ...

Air Products Brings On-Stream World's Largest Ultra High Purity Nitrogen Plant to Taiwan

Investment Fits With Air Products' Strategy To Enhance Its Asian Electronics Leadership Position

06-Nov-2002 - Air Products announced today that it has brought on-stream the world's largest ultra high purity bulk gas production facility, pipeline bulk gas distribution network and a related state-of-the-art electronics specialty materials production center to serve electronics customers in the Tainan ...

Praxair And BP Finalize Hydrogen Supply Agreement

06-Sep-2002 - DANBURY, Conn. Sept. 5, 2002 - Continuing with its strategy to expand its Gulf Coast hydrogen business, Praxair, Inc. has finalized an agreement with BP whereby Praxair will supply hydrogen to BP's Texas City, Texas, chemicals and refinery complex. Praxair will build two new hydrogen plants in ...

Agilent Technologies detects PAHs in water using retention time locking and solid-phase extraction

19-Aug-2002 - PALO ALTO, Calif., Aug. 16, 2002 - Agilent Technologies Inc., today announced a significant gas chromatography/mass spectroscopy (GC/MS) application that demonstrates the usefulness of retention time locking (RTL) in determining the presence of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in ...

Hitachi in Japan goes with BOC for nitrogen

17-Jul-2002 - Guildford, UK, July 15 - Osaka Sanso Kogyo (OSK), BOC’s operating company in Japan, has been awarded the contract to build a nitrogen plant to supply Hitachi Powdered Metals Company Limited for its factory in Japan. The site at Matsudo, which will receive 300 tonnes of nitrogen a month from ...