Weirauch, Wendy
HP Impact: Emerging advanced vehicle technologies
Sulfur-free gasoline and diesel fuels (10 mg/kg maximum sulfur content), must be available on "an appropriate balanced geographic basis"' from 2005, according to the final EU Directive...
HP Impact: Strategies needed to rebuild weakened ECC industry
In business, it is not the nature of the challenge that is important but the quality of the response to the challenge. Aiming to identify needed responses, a new study from Transmar Con..
HP Impact: Price volatility level increasing in natural gas market
High natural gas prices get a lot of attention, but an equally important factor to watch closely is the volatility of the market. In the last few years it has increased substantially, s..
HP Impact: Japanese refiners advancing to 10-ppm specifications
Japanese oil companies have been accelerating their investment plans to prepare themselves for the next set of stringent specification regulations - 10-ppm for gasoline and gasoil - whi..
HP Impact: Polymerization catalyst demand in US forecast to expand 5.7%/yr
The US market for polymerization catalysts is forecast to expand 5.7%/yr through 2007, reaching $1.1 billion. So says a new study from The Freedonia Group, Inc., a Cleveland-based indus..
HP Impact: Single US light vehicle contains $2,000 of chemical products
The health of the light vehicle industry (automobiles, light-duty trucks, vans and sports utility vehicles) and the US economy are dynamically interrelated. The light vehicle industry c..
HP Impact: Best available HPI technology featured at triennial show
ACHEMA 2003 remains a premier international exhibition and conference for all segments of the chemical industry. This global forum - held May 19 - 23 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany - wit..
HP Impact: Global ethylene: feeding the giants
The steam cracker remains the fundamental unit of the global petrochemical industry, and its key product - ethylene - the most important base feedstock. What is becoming increasingly cl..
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