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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…