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Hygienic pump gets EHEDG approval
Added: 29 Mar 2000
The SH/BH progressing cavity pump range from Netzsch Nemo Pumps has been designed with the …

Now in hot water
Added: 29 Mar 2000
The new ZDNA and ZHNA models extend Sterling Fluid Systems' range of high temperature pumps…

Pharmaceutical giants announce mega-merger
Added: 29 Mar 2000
As PE goes to press, the UK's leading pharmaceutical companies, Glaxo Wellcome and SmithKli…

Investment and product launches signal optimism at DSM Fine Chemicals
Added: 29 Mar 2000
Dutch major DSM's Fine Chemicals business has announced plans to invest E50million in new p…

IN BRIEF: Air pollution powers up
Added: 29 Mar 2000
The market for air pollution control systems, and the associated engineering and monitoring…

Painting market set for growth
Added: 29 Mar 2000
Worldwide demand for paints and coatings is set to grow at 4.6 per cent per year, reaching …

Show shapes up
Added: 29 Mar 2000
This year's Processing and Packaging Machinery Association PPMA Show will for the first tim…

Fat mixing is a piece of cake
Added: 29 Mar 2000
The commercial preparation of fat and flour catering mixes used to be done in conventional …

IN BRIEF: Shell sets up a PET shop
Added: 29 Mar 2000
Shell has agreed to sell its polyethylene terephthalate (PET) business to the Italian Mossi…

Extension to CHP plant
Added: 29 Mar 2000
Gogen, the combined-heat-and-power arm of National Power, is to build a £15million extensio…

Boost for AMEC as orders flow
Added: 29 Mar 2000
In a £25million deal, AMEC has entered into a five-year alliance with Union Carbide to supp…

China takeaway
Added: 29 Mar 2000
Liquid separations specialist PCI-Memtech has won a contract from the Lukang Pharmaceutical…

Krupp Uhde acquires reforming
Added: 29 Mar 2000
German process technology specialist Krupp Uhde has bought the rights to an olefin-generati…

EC clearance for Honeywell
Added: 29 Mar 2000
The European Commission has cleared the merger of AlliedSignal and Honeywell to form a new …

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…