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A shady plant
Added: 22 Aug 2000
Anderson Greenwood has clinched a $1million order for pressure relief and instrument valves…

TOD best for monitoring
Added: 22 Aug 2000
Monitoring difficult effluents, such as untreated wastewaters, high salts and complex hydro…

Bertrams gets its just deserts
Added: 22 Aug 2000
Swiss process technology specialist Bertrams has landed a contract to process Chile saltpet…

Borealis starts Borstar PP
Added: 22 Aug 2000
Nordic polyolefin producer Borealis has started up its first polypropylene plant using the …

Condition monitoring spin for centrifuges
Added: 22 Aug 2000
Another aid to prolonging the life of process equipment was unveiled at Achema by Alfa Lava…

Hanovia makes light work of controlling offensive odours
Added: 22 Aug 2000
Ultraviolet light has long been recognised as a technology for destroying odour-producing c…

New name floated in water treatment
Added: 22 Aug 2000
Following the sell off by Klargester of its products business, it has re-established the re…

BP to shed two more businesses
Added: 22 Aug 2000
BP Amoco has announced plans to sell off its high-performance engineering polymers and carb…

Monitoring waste flows
Added: 22 Aug 2000
Making its debut at an ET show, flow and level specialist Krohne showed part of its wide ra…

A quick peek at the new Siemens site
Added: 22 Aug 2000
Siemens Automation & Drives has acquired Applied Automation, the gas analysis and chromatog…

Calibration, that's what you need
Added: 22 Aug 2000
New facilities at ABB Instrumentation's site in Workington, Cumbria, will allow industrial …

Deal sealed
Added: 22 Aug 2000
A £3.3million exclusive contract has been awarded to John Crane by Shell for all aspects of…

The drinks are on Kemutec
Added: 22 Aug 2000
Nichols Food has chosen Kemutec to supply a new Gardner mixer at its beverage production fa…

Safety measures up storage of SEWAGE SLUDGE
Added: 22 Aug 2000
Recent changes in both UK and European legislation have led to the installation of sewage sludge dr…
Waterproof sculpture
Added: 22 Aug 2000
How exactly do you waterproof a 2.5m-high sculpture of an astronaut, made entirely out of steel coa…
Jacobs picks up Stone & Webster after losses lead to bankruptcy
Added: 22 Aug 2000
Jacobs Engineering has stepped in to buy Stone & Webster after a series of contract overrun…

Carbon adsorbs H+W releases
Added: 22 Aug 2000
An activated carbon adsorption system is helping Hickson & Welch reduce the emissions from …

Lightweight electron accelerator cleans up
Added: 22 Aug 2000
Using electron beams to sterilise materials and surfaces is a promising new technology - cl…

UK AND INTERNATIONAL PLANT COST INDICES
Added: 22 Aug 2000
Process Engineering's PREDICT plant cost index for the UK is made up of five components cov…

No more liquid-filled devices?
Added: 22 Aug 2000
That's the goal of Dresser Instruments Division with the introduction of its patent-pending…