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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…