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Between a rock and a hard place
Added: 6 Oct 2003
PLC makers are beginning to target applications which were previously the preserve of DCS companies…The bright lights
Added: 6 Oct 2003
'Lab-on-a-chip' devices are beginning to hit the market, using microscopic channels etched into sil…Profits slide across UK industry
Added: 6 Oct 2003
Chemical industry chiefs in the UK may be looking with hope at the first signs of a recover…
Jet propelled
Added: 6 Oct 2003
The PDX pump combines an amazing range of process operations within a deceptively simple device. Bu…Bringing simulation closer to reality
Added: 6 Oct 2003
The increasing power of CFD is opening up new approaches to process simulation. David Kinnear expla…Modular drives
Added: 6 Oct 2003
Danfoss has adopted a platform-based approach for its newest range of drives, allowing it t…
On-line size analysis on the move
Added: 6 Oct 2003
The Insitec Voyager is the latest in Malvern Instruments' range of on-line particle size an…
Pipeline and plant plans
Added: 6 Oct 2003
Saudi petrochemicals giant Sabic, which bought DSM Petrochemicals last summer, is among the…
Meeting the scrapheap challenge
Added: 6 Oct 2003
Sophisticated furnace control systems, including the use of fuzzy logic, have significantly improve…Coat of many properties
Added: 6 Oct 2003
Combining the actions of a mill and a mixer, Hosokawa Micron's dry coating machines can create vers…Detecting leaks
Added: 3 Oct 2003
US-based Physical Sciences' prototype leak detector recently demonstrated its ability to spot natur…Sorbates cartel gets slapped
Added: 1 Oct 2003
The European Commission has imposed hefty fines on Hoechst, Chisso, Daicel Chemical, Nippon Synthet…From natural gas to plastic cups
Added: 30 Sep 2003
In what it claims is a world's first, Lurgi AG has succeeded in polymerising propylene produced by …Opening the floodgates to pollution?
Added: 25 Sep 2003
The European Commission has adopted a proposal for a new European Directive that it says wi…
Petrochemicals in China
Added: 23 Sep 2003
Technip has been awarded a contract worth about $50 million by the Cangzhou Cang Hua Chemical Indus…Dow to acquire Celanese acrylics
Added: 15 Sep 2003
The Dow Chemical Company is to purchase the acrylics business of Celanese for an undisclose…
The start-to-finish PPMA show
Added: 9 Sep 2003
Featuring equipment from across the spectrum of processing and packaging, this month's PPMA Show at…Making your remote monitoring work
Added: 9 Sep 2003
Remote monitoring can transform the ways in which companies operate and manage their processes, but…DSM deal for Aker Kvaerner
Added: 9 Sep 2003
Aker Kværner has landed a $15million contract to revamp a caprolactam plant in Nanjing owned by a j…