Weirauch, Wendy
HP Impact: HPImpact: Sulfur standards reap big benefits
U.S. taxpayers have received a high return on their investment in measurement standards for fossil fuels. These saved $113 for every dollar spent, while enhancing environmental quality, according to a..
HP Impact: HPImpact: What's driving CAD/CAM, CAE growth?
Plant and product design technology analysts at Daratech (Cambridge, Massachusetts) forecast that worldwide user spending for mechanical CAD/CAM, CAE software and services will top $6.6 billion in 200..
HP Impact: HPImpact: Thermoplastic elastomers: market opportunities
Demand for thermoplastic elastomers (TPEs) in the U.S. is forecast to increase 6.7%/yr to 1.4 billion pounds in 2003. This is a significant outpacing of gains in the general economy. Market research f..
HP Impact: HPImpact: U.S. air pollution control equipment market to rise 5.4%/year
The value of VOC-related air pollution control (APC) equipment in the U.S. market totaled $3.3 billion in 1999, according to a recent Business Communications Co., Inc. study. That amount will rise to ..
HP In Brief: HPIn Brief
'Leave SPR alone,' urges Kansas Governor Bill Graves. He recently warned U.S. federal lawmakers not to sell oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) to moderate the rise in heating oil prices. ..
HP Impact: HPImpact: World petrochemical industry overview
The outlook for the global petrochemical industry is featured in an updated report by CMAI (Houston, Texas), a petrochemical consulting company. The following are highlights from that company's market..
HP Impact: HPImpact: Software that resolves design arguments?
Conflicts between engineers and other professionals who design facilities may one day be anticipated and resolved automatically by computers. Would this eliminate human egos and fallibility from the p..
HP Impact: HPImpact: Insulation-appraiser certification program
An ambitious program has been developed to train individuals to evaluate the thermal performance of insulated vs. uninsulated processes in a facility. The National Insulation Association (NIA) believe..
HP Impact: HPImpact: Studies say capacity needed for polyester, intermediates
Was 1999 the turning point for many sectors of the polyester and intermediates business? According to new analyses of supply and demand from TECNON (UK) Ltd., last year was the end of a period of rapi..
HP Impact: HPImpact: Chemical sector: major market for air pollution systems
Sales of air pollution control systems and the accompanying engineering and monitoring services will exceed $26 billion worldwide in 2000. So says the latest forecast from the McIlvaine Company, North..
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- Gauging the likely Trump effect on U.S. energy and power sectors 11/22
- Russia's Lukoil restoring cracker at NORSI refinery, gasoline output rising 11/22
- Nigeria's local currency crude sales fall short of target, Dangote refinery says 11/22
- U.S. October gasoline imports hit post-pandemic low on slump in European shipments 11/22
- Clean Hydrogen Works awards McDermott FEED contract for Ascension Clean Energy (ACE) project 11/21
