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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…
IN BRIEF: BP Amoco's record quarter
Added: 29 Mar 2000
As PE went to press, BP Amoco posted year-end profits of $6.2billion, up 40 per cent on the…
Piping cost estimates (pt 5)
Added: 29 Mar 2000
This series on estimating the costs of pipework and piping projects might be one of the longest we …
Siemens continues on the process acquisition trail
Added: 29 Mar 2000
Siemens Energy & Automation has entered a $170 million agreement to acquire Moore Products …
Tests put packing top
Added: 18 Feb 2000
Supagraf Premier, the latest fugitive emission control packing from sealing specialist Jame…
Leaving it to the specialists
Added: 18 Feb 2000
According to centrifuge specialist Westfalia Separator, speciality is the key to excellence…
Government agrees climate change targets for chemical/paper industries
Added: 18 Feb 2000
The government has agreed energy efficiency targets from the chemicals and paper industries…
