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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…

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…