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Sequencia sells automation business to Rockwell
Added: 27 Oct 2000
Sequencia Corporation has sold its batch automation business to Rockwell Automation, a business of …
Eastman to discontinue propylene glycol production
Added: 26 Oct 2000
Eastman Chemical Company will discontinue its propylene glycol production facilities in Sou…

Resistance is futile
Added: 23 Oct 2000
Mitsubishi Electric and SPC have jointly developed resist removal technology for use in the manufac…

Bubble acoustics
Added: 23 Oct 2000
The sound that bubbles emit has been exploited by researchers who have built a measurement tool tha…
ABB acquires pharmaceutical software
Added: 16 Oct 2000
ABB has agreed to acquire the rights and associated research and development resources from Base Te…
Chevron and Texaco merge
Added: 16 Oct 2000
Chevron Corporation and Texaco today announced that they will merge. The combined company e…

Keeping the heat on, safely
Added: 9 Oct 2000
Hazardous area heating specialist Heatex has introduced its RFA-C range of flameproof immer…

Fullerenes on the market
Added: 9 Oct 2000
Mitsubishi, Materials and Electrochemical Research and Research Corporation Technologies ar…

Building business
Added: 9 Oct 2000
Stuart Nathan looks at the merger and acquisition activity in the process contractors market, where…
Boiler runs out of steam, but replacement fires up
Added: 9 Oct 2000
After 50 years in service and more than 120 000 units sold worldwide, the venerable Fulton …

Serving up steam on a plate
Added: 9 Oct 2000
A range of steam heaters from Alfa Laval Thermal Division makes use of the company's well-e…

US Army tests chemical weapons destruction
Added: 9 Oct 2000
Aprocess developed by AEA Technology could be used to destroy the US's stockpile of chemica…

Wastewater costs evaporate away
Added: 9 Oct 2000
Following the expansion into the US of its parent company Severn Trent Services (see PE Jul…

Packaged exchanger solutions set for growth
Added: 9 Oct 2000
According to research carried out on behalf of specialist heat exchanger manufacturer Rycro…

Setting a standard for on-site calibration
Added: 9 Oct 2000
Recently introduced to the UK by Hawco, Ametek's advanced temperature calibrator, the Joffr…

Engineers all, but some are more in demand than others
Added: 9 Oct 2000
What's in a name? Well, if you call yourself an engineer, you know all about the never-ending argum…
Supercritical fluids make custom powders
Added: 9 Oct 2000
The technology behind particle engineering has moved on from the use of large quantities of solvent…
Swedish belt beats conveyors
Added: 9 Oct 2000
An award-winning design from Swedish company Sicon Roulunds could put paid to all the dust …

Environment Agency spotlights polluters
Added: 6 Oct 2000
A report on industry's environmental performance pulls no punches in naming and shaming the…
