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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…

Making more Topas

Added: 3 Oct 2000

Ticona, the technical polymers business of Celanese AG, Frankfurt, has opened a new production plan…

ABB gets $260-million offshore gas

Added: 19 Sep 2000

ABB has won a $260-million contract to design the offshore Khuff gas project in Abu Dhabi, …

New coating outperforms the competition

Added: 14 Sep 2000

High performance coatings have historically been made with solvents but new advances in waterborne…

As the petrol runs dry…

Added: 14 Sep 2000

The petrol tankers have stopped rolling. The filling stations have run dry. And young mothe…

British Polythene Sells its Flexibles

Added: 13 Sep 2000

British Polythene Industries PLC (BPI) has exchanged contracts for the sale of its Flexibles Busine…

Bayer to acquire paper chemicals business

Added: 8 Sep 2000

The Bayer Group, based in Leverkusen, Germany, plans to purchase the paper chemicals business of th…

Bran + Luebbe and PE co-host Processing Forum

Added: 7 Sep 2000

Process systems company Bran + Luebbe and Centaur Publishing's Process Engineering and Control and …

Aspen acquires Icarus

Added: 6 Sep 2000

Aspen Technology have closed a transaction to acquire Icarus Corporation, a provider of software th…

Celanese AG buys polyvinyl alcohol business

Added: 6 Sep 2000

Celanese AG has signed an agreement to purchase the assets of the polyvinyl alcohol busines…

Eastman launches new Reactol polymer for aerospace industry

Added: 24 Aug 2000

Eastman Chemical Company has launched Reactol PE125, a polyester resin with high impact and…

A week in the life of the ENVIRONMENT

Added: 22 Aug 2000

This month's ET2000 exhibition was the focal point for the first UK Environment Week. Here we look …

Membranes mean no money down the drain

Added: 22 Aug 2000

At its Colwyn Bay factory in North Wales, Quinton Hazell manufactures water pumps and steer…

EXTENDING OUR COST DATA BOUNDARIES

Added: 22 Aug 2000

The countries listed here (right) were recently added to our long-standing international indices (b…

Strange Brews

Added: 22 Aug 2000

One of mankind's oldest technologies is being used to develop the newest families of medicines. Stu…

Water falls

Added: 22 Aug 2000

Weir Pumps has won a £500 000 order for two contracts from South Holland Drainage Board and…

Asset management proves payback

Added: 22 Aug 2000

`The high return on investment with a payback faster than one year helped win corporate app…

Eurochem News

Added: 22 Aug 2000

Although widely adopted, Computer Aided Process Engineering (CAPE) has yet to make its mark…

Measure it, monitor it

Added: 22 Aug 2000

Detecting pollutants is one thing, knowing just how much of each your plant is emitting is …

Long-life gauges have six-year warranty

Added: 22 Aug 2000

The 3D Instruments pressure gauges, introduced by UK agent Flotech Solutions, are said to s…