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IN BRIEF: BioMedica aids discovery
Added: 29 Mar 2000
Oxford BioMedica has licensed its LentiVector gene delivery technology to AstraZeneca. The …

Volume growth ahead for chemicals in 2000
Added: 29 Mar 2000
The lean times for the chemical industry in Europe, and especially the UK, seem to be over …

MCERTS makes its mark
Added: 29 Mar 2000
An oxygen analyser from ABB Instrumentation and an HCl analyser from Servomex are among the…

Butterflies replaced in Japan site
Added: 29 Mar 2000
The Mucon Division of the Kemutec Group has just secured an order worth around £80 000 from…

All-Fill filling in for Fyllan
Added: 29 Mar 2000
All-Fill International, the powders and granules filling specialist, has taken on the after…

Carbon sorts out the smell for Witton
Added: 29 Mar 2000
Cost-effective removal of large quantities of contaminants may pose a bit of a challenge, b…

PlantWeb chalks up 500
Added: 29 Mar 2000
Fisher-Rosemount has reached the 500 mark in project sales of its field-based PlantWeb cont…

Distributed, but together
Added: 29 Mar 2000
With the introduction of `Distributed Server Architecture' as part of its PlantScape Releas…

Compressor helps bottle the bubbles for Buxton
Added: 29 Mar 2000
As well as the still version of the UK's top brand of mineral water. But the compressed air…

Compressors' moving story
Added: 29 Mar 2000
With the launch of its low capacity ZE2 series of low-pressure compressors, Atlas Copco Com…

Microwave plasma is hot stuff for high-temp work
Added: 29 Mar 2000
A new plasma heater could help boost the performance of incinerators and be a valuable tool…

Fast track for maintenance
Added: 29 Mar 2000
With its `one-nut' design, Flotronic's Chemflo diaphragm pump lends itself to easy maintena…

Conoco control
Added: 29 Mar 2000
Conoco's Humber Refinery has placed a $6million contract with Honeywell Control Systems for…

Heraeus in catalyst reprocessing acquisition
Added: 29 Mar 2000
German precious metals specialist Heraeus has acquired an aluminium oxide catalyst regenera…

Done and dusted? GO FOR QUALITY
Added: 29 Mar 2000
John Whitehead explains how high quality dust control provides the best value for money to supplier…
Water treatment award
Added: 29 Mar 2000
Significant improvements in the water treatment programme at Dow Corning's plant in Barry, South Gl…
IN BRIEF: Rotork becomes the first offshore
Added: 29 Mar 2000
Rotork has won a contract valued around £2.25 million to become the first manufacturer to s…

Groundbreaking in Singapore
Added: 29 Mar 2000
BASF and Shell have launched the first major project of the millennium in Singapore, with t…

Leaving it to the specialists
Added: 29 Mar 2000
According to centrifuge specialist Westfalia Separator, speciality is the key to excellence…

The great North drive
Added: 29 Mar 2000
Just a few miles below the Arctic Circle, drives manufacturer Vacon - Vaasa Control - is on…