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MANHATTAN PROJECTS
Added: 29 Mar 2000
Equipment suppliers and plant operators from across the whole spectrum of the process industries co…Year-end brings burst of process acquisitions
Added: 29 Mar 2000
Pre-empting the end-of-year fireworks, the process equipment marketplace was lit up last mo…
Shell heads online
Added: 29 Mar 2000
Shell has become the first of the petrochemical majors to take the leap into the e-commerce…
Valves bound for China
Added: 29 Mar 2000
China syndrome: this collection of IMI Bailey Birkett safety relief valves, bound for the Luo Yang …Dosing pump range end is upgraded
Added: 29 Mar 2000
ProMinent Fluid Controls has introduced several upgrades to its Vario motor-driven dosing d…
Capacity added at Elf Atochem
Added: 29 Mar 2000
Elf Atochem has started up a new plastic additive plant at Vlissingen, the Netherlands. Pro…
Ciba success for Spiroflow
Added: 29 Mar 2000
Ciba Specialty Chemicals has installed six Spiroflow bulk-bag dischargers designed to ensur…
Serious safety
Added: 29 Mar 2000
With estimates of over 2000 explosions a year during storage/handling of combustible materi…
Genesis of double silicone
Added: 29 Mar 2000
Dow Corning is on a mission. Through the so-called Genesis project, the company plans to ma…
Hazardous handling no problem
Added: 29 Mar 2000
As part of a materials handling contract for Sorex, a producer of hazardous materials for c…
ICI begins to see the benefits of changes
Added: 29 Mar 2000
Record profits from speciality chemicals helped radically-reshaped British chemicals giant …
IN BRIEF: Norsk Hydro exits UK
Added: 29 Mar 2000
Norsk Hydro has put its UK assets, mainly comprising three North Sea oilfields, up for sale…
`Trusted' will find the faults in new Sicilian LP gas plant
Added: 29 Mar 2000
ICS Triplex has been asked to provide an integrated turn-key control and safety system for …
PLCs are saving
Added: 29 Mar 2000
PVC producer European Vinyl Corporation (EVC) has managed to save around £750 000 by using …
Knocking away at the mill
Added: 29 Mar 2000
There was no chance for workers at Scottish woollen textile company Johnstons to enjoy a qu…
Hydrogen route uses one step
Added: 29 Mar 2000
German technology firm Caloric Anlagenbau has developed a new route to hydrogen from natura…
Greenhouse - free fossil fuel
Added: 29 Mar 2000
A project to extract methane from deep coal beds is about to enter its third phase, with th…
UK AND INTERNATIONAL PLANT COST INDICES
Added: 29 Mar 2000
Process Engineering's PREDICT plant cost index for the UK is made up of five components cov…
Elf Atochem rewards end-users for product innovation
Added: 29 Mar 2000
On this page we regularly feature research and technology developments that will bring rewa…
EXTENDING OUR COST DATA BOUNDARIES
Added: 29 Mar 2000
Last month we introduced eight new countries to our international indices. While we could p…
