HP Impact: HPImpact: Catalysts market to top $2.6 billion
Catalysis is a highly technical, complex process. Its products and markets are large and diverse. Moreover, catalysts themselves are important materials of commerce: their applications affect the manu..
HP Impact: HPImpact: Facilities technology roadmap initiative
Industry representatives from the owner, operator, engineering, contracting and IT supplier communities participated in launching the Capital Facilities Technology Roadmap Initiative at a recent FIATE..
HP Impact: HPImpact: Business to business: finding success online
Suppose you need a birthday gift. Traditionally, you would have driven to a store to make the purchase. Today, you may log on to the Internet and browse your favorite online retailers. When the time c..
HPInformer: International
ABB and Dow Chemical Co. (Dow) have signed a 10-yr global strategic agreement to upgrade Dow's plants with a new generation of ABB Industrial IT technology to link operations and improve productivity...
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Aspen Technology, Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts, has announced that Petro-Canada will use Aspen Retail e-business supply chain solutions to manage the delivery of fuel to its retail and wholesale cus..
New Developments: New Developments in products, services and software
Shell-and-tube heat exchanger design, simulationTASC5, from Hyprotech's HTFS suite of thermal design and simulationsoftware, is a fully integrated software tool for thermal andmechanical design of she..
HP Construction: HPIn Construction
Atak Petrochemical to expand Iranian plant Atak Petrochemical Co. has awarded Technip a contract to expand the olefins plant in Atak, Iran. Under the project, the ethylene production capacity will be ..
Free Literature
Remote interface for fieldbusWieland Electric Inc.'s easy-to-use guide outlines its expanding ricos line of remote I/O systems for fieldbus interface applications. The detailed brochure gives an overv..
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Asia to purchase 29% of the world's air pollution control equipment. In 2001, worldwide orders for air pollution equipment will reach $30 billion; $8.7 billion of this will be slated for Asian countri..
HP Impact: HPImpact: Benefits of increasing plastics in vehicles
Using plastics parts to reduce the weight of motor vehicles sold last year in the U.S. could save approximately four billion gallons of gasoline over the life of those vehicles. That's one of the find..
HP Impact: HPImpact: EU's CONCAWE releases studies of note
Diesel supply. Could tougher specifications affect diesel supply? According to CONCAWE, evaluating the impact of various measures on the EU refining industry is generally based on the assumption that ..
HP Impact: HPImpact: Valve automation gains renewed interest
The focus of manufacturers on Y2K and e-business shut off many capital investments for valve automation, according to an analysis from ARC Advisory Group (www.arcweb.com). The past two years have been..
HP Impact: HPImpact: What does it mean to be lean?
"Lean Construction" is a production management-based approach to project delivery - a way to design and build capital facilities. Lean production management is claimed to be causing a revolution in ma..