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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…

SCADA systems weave around the web

Added: 6 Oct 2000

The Internet is bringing a new lease of life to established Scada (supervisory control and data acq…