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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…