BP cuts PP line in Texas, jobs in Scotland

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BP cuts PP line in Texas, jobs in Scotland - British Petroleum chose to shut down 450 million pounds of Polypropylene capacity 11/8/01 at its Chocolate Bayou plant in Alvin, TX. Also BP is cutting about 320 million pounds of polyethylene capacity at its petrochemical complex in Grangemouth, Scotland. The firm also gained 850 million pounds of capacity in Deer Park, TX, on 11/1/01 when it closed a deal in which BP obtained Solvay SA's PP business in exchange for BP's engineering resins units.

Fluoro-Seal acquires Nampac technology

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Fluoro-Seal acquires Nampac technology - Fluoro-Seal of Houston will handle the fluorine treating of high density polyethylene containers for North America Packaging Corp. of Raleigh under an alliance announced Nov. 26. Fluoro-Seal acquired Nampac's Polyfluor technology and fluorine treatment facility in St. Joseph, MO. Fluoro-Seal will relocate treatment work now occurring at Nampac plants in Toccoa, Ga. and Indianapolis. Nampac customers gain global access to fluorine treatment options at 22 Fluoro-Seal sites.

Polk County Landfill Tests Cover System

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Polk County landfill tests cover system that could boost performance and cut costs - Polk County North Central Landfill (FL) has just completed 16.5 acres of exposed green 60 mil textured HDPE geomembrane cap. Steve Laux at Jones, Edmunds & Associates was the project manager. The geomembrane was fastened down in anchor trenches about 60 ft apart to resist uplift from winds up to 80 mph. To prevent the pull of material under contraction stresses to one end of the cap, every other panel was anchored along both edges and the panels between were welded on each edge to the panels previously installed, as shown in the figure. Use of an exposed geomembrane reduced installation costs from $144,000 per acre to about $65,000 per acre - a significant saving.

Cooley Career Opportunities

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Cooley Group - Where Chemistry Makes the Difference -For career opportunities within the Cooley Group

ASTM will have new name

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ASTM will have new name- To more accurately reflect their long-standing role as a developer of international standards, beginning in 2002, ASTM will have a new name - ASTM International. Remember you can choose from over 11,000 ASTM Standards and individual standards can be downloaded as you need them. Average cost is $30.00. Learn more here.;

Rapra report looks at PE, PP use vs. PVC

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Rapra report looks at PE, PP use vs. PVC - Rapra Technology Ltd. has a new report revealing technological progress, material advances and growing markets are contributing to the region's plastic pipe industry. The report looks at the growing use of polyethylene and polypropylene instead of PVC in pipe production and how innovative installation techniques, such as trenchless technologies, are leading to new applications. To receive "The European Plastic Pipes Market" - +44 (193) 925-0383 (vox) or email: ruth@rapra.net

GIGSA November Newsletter

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GIGSA November Newsletter - To open this newsletter, you will need Winzip to decompress the file and Adobe Acrobat reader to see the newsletter. If you don't have these freeware programs, they can be downloaded off the Internet at http://www.tucows.saix.net

Stevens Geomembranes develops a new CD

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Stevens Geomembranes has developed a new CD-ROM Technical "Binder" which will be ready for distribution in the next few weeks. For more information call 1-800-861-2281 ext. 1003.

SAGEOS is Hiring

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SAGEOS of Quebec, CA is looking for a Civil Engineer in charge of research and development. Must be fluent in english and french.

GIGSA News Flash

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GIGSA News Flash South Africa is having a very serious erosion control problem. If you would like to consider joining the South African Chapter of IECA or have any imput into solving the problem, this is a very useful association to belong to. For more information visist http://www.ieca.org or http://www.ieca.co.za