http://che.com Chemical Engineering en-us 2008 Wed, 20 Aug 2008 13:37:12 EDT Click here for full pdf version of this article - includes all graphs, charts, tables, and author information As fuel prices continue to rise, energy management is everyone’s business... http://che.com/business_and_economics/cost_engineering/4090.html Fri, 15 Aug 2008 0:00:00 EDT At the beginning of 2008, it’s clear that global economic growth is slowing. The housing downturn has adversely affected the U.S., and the ensuing credit problems (and tightening) have spread to other nations. A key issue is whether or not the weakness has done enough damage to tip the economy toward recession. The general consensus is that it is likely that the U.S. will avoid a downturn but experience a slowdown with concomitant and tentative sanguine prospects for the broader global economy. Global industrial activity will parallel these trends, although an inventory correction may foster a stronger deceleration of factory activity. This will affect global chemistry demand and as a result, growth will moderate into 2008.... http://che.com/business_and_economics/cost_engineering/3598.html Tue, 15 Jan 2008 0:00:00 EST Click here for full pdf version of this article - includes all graphs, charts, tables, and author information The globalization of the economy is making the world a smaller place and leading... http://che.com/business_and_economics/cost_engineering/3493.html Thu, 15 Nov 2007 0:00:00 EST Click here for full pdf version of this article - includes all graphs, charts, tables, and author information   Free trade agreements, global manufacturing standards and the Internet have... http://che.com/business_and_economics/cost_engineering/3342.html Sun, 1 Apr 2007 0:00:00 EDT This fall, Asahi Chemical Industry Co., Ltd. (Tokyo; edlinks.che.com/6516-541), plans to start up a 70,000-m.t./yr plant for producing acrylonitrile (AN) at its 100% subsidiary Tongsuh... http://che.com/business_and_economics/cost_engineering/3002.html Fri, 1 Sep 2006 0:00:00 EDT Click here for full pdf version of this article - includes all graphs, charts, tables, and author information   If your estimate for a project's capital cost is too high or too low... http://che.com/business_and_economics/cost_engineering/2805.html Tue, 1 Aug 2006 0:00:00 EDT Click here for full pdf version of this article - includes all graphs, charts, tables, and author information   Typical process utilities include electricity, process steam, refrigerants... http://che.com/business_and_economics/cost_engineering/2798.html Sat, 1 Apr 2006 0:00:00 EST Click here for full pdf version of this article - includes all graphs, charts, tables, and author information   Engineers often need to predict the cost of piping and pipefitting associated... http://che.com/business_and_economics/cost_engineering/2814.html Wed, 1 Mar 2006 0:00:00 EST Axxom Software AG (Munich, Germany; edlinks.che.com/5827-541) has introduced a new technological approach that, for the first time, allows an end-to-end supply chain optimization of very large... http://che.com/business_and_economics/cost_engineering/2915.html Wed, 1 Mar 2006 0:00:00 EST Click here for full pdf version of this article - includes all graphs, charts, tables, and author information   The first two installments of this three-part series (CE, November 2005, pp... http://che.com/business_and_economics/cost_engineering/2794.html Sun, 1 Jan 2006 0:00:00 EST