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AEA product to help boost profits from oil production

Added: 29 Mar 2000

A technology more familiar from the pharmaceutical industry could help boost oil producers'…

Government agrees climate change targets for chemical/paper industries

Added: 29 Mar 2000

The government has agreed energy efficiency targets from the chemicals and paper industries…

IN BRIEF: Pantek automates AstraZeneca

Added: 29 Mar 2000

Wonderware visualisation software is an integral part of a new expansion of AstraZeneca R&D…

Global process automation is now really the real thing

Added: 29 Mar 2000

If anyone doubted the truly global nature of the process industries, then just consider the…

Multi-screw feeder designed for pharmaceuticals

Added: 29 Mar 2000

Designed specifically for pharmaceutical industry applications, Bran + Luebbe's Tomal 224F …

BNFL buys ABB's nuclear operations

Added: 29 Mar 2000

A £300million deal is set to see ABB's nuclear businesses brought into BNFL. As part of its…

Leadership is key to R&D

Added: 29 Mar 2000

Companies in the process sectors are not making the most of the research and development ef…

Brewery relies on UV to keep the bitter at its best

Added: 29 Mar 2000

With a history dating back to 1790 Harveys Brewery in Lewes, East Sussex, naturally takes p…

Speed drives go down under

Added: 29 Mar 2000

Supplied by Alstom Drives & Controls, 225 Alspa GD3000E variable speed drives are now at wo…

Compounders interest polyolefin producers

Added: 29 Mar 2000

The polyolefins industry's never-ending urge for expansion has led to a need for new equipm…

DERA system has firmer foundations

Added: 29 Mar 2000

A new coupling system for fluid-filled pipes promises to reduce vibration in `critical pipe…

Software aims at the panel level

Added: 29 Mar 2000

The latest addition to Intellution's Dynamics software family, iVisualize is a Windows CE-b…

Fastest steam plant

Added: 29 Mar 2000

The fastest-responding steam plant in the UK, shown here, is helping Terra Nitrogen operate its air…

Water dives into digital VALVE CONTROL

Added: 29 Mar 2000

One of the first applications of digital control in the water industry has recently gone on-line. M…

Engineers' role is vital, says EC

Added: 29 Mar 2000

The presence of engineers in the workforce increases both a company's productivity and prof…

No worry over the inhibitors from these injection pumps

Added: 29 Mar 2000

A total of 13 Cerex injection pumpsets are to be supplied by Bran+Luebbe to ROC Oil's on-sh…

Lime dosing gets upgrade solution

Added: 29 Mar 2000

At North West Water's Cumwhinton wastewater treatment works near Carlisle, operators were e…

Putting more vim into Vimto

Added: 29 Mar 2000

Atlanta (and Japan, see above) might boast of the `real thing', exiled Scots might cry into…

More power to the piston

Added: 29 Mar 2000

New from Kecol Pumps is an intermediate range of piston pumps for use with viscous creams a…

Ciba and Nalco/Exxon team up for processing alliance

Added: 29 Mar 2000

A global alliance between Ciba Specialty Chemicals and Nalco/Exxon Energy Chemicals aims to…