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Trautz named as jv chief
Added: 29 Mar 2000
Volker Trautz has been named as the president of Shell and BASF's proposed polyolefins join…

No holes in these buckets
Added: 29 Mar 2000
At British Steel's Llanwern works a clean air campaign has resulted in an order for Nerak-W…

Mono helps to put cream in your coffee
Added: 29 Mar 2000
An SL Range progressing cavity pump from Mono has solved a maintenance problem at Premier B…

Focus on R&D set to boost BASF Pharma
Added: 29 Mar 2000
BASF has set itself a 15-20 per cent target for return on sales in its pharmaceuticals divi…

Hygienic pump gets EHEDG approval
Added: 29 Mar 2000
The SH/BH progressing cavity pump range from Netzsch Nemo Pumps has been designed with the …

Now in hot water
Added: 29 Mar 2000
The new ZDNA and ZHNA models extend Sterling Fluid Systems' range of high temperature pumps…

Pharmaceutical giants announce mega-merger
Added: 29 Mar 2000
As PE goes to press, the UK's leading pharmaceutical companies, Glaxo Wellcome and SmithKli…

Investment and product launches signal optimism at DSM Fine Chemicals
Added: 29 Mar 2000
Dutch major DSM's Fine Chemicals business has announced plans to invest E50million in new p…

IN BRIEF: Air pollution powers up
Added: 29 Mar 2000
The market for air pollution control systems, and the associated engineering and monitoring…

Painting market set for growth
Added: 29 Mar 2000
Worldwide demand for paints and coatings is set to grow at 4.6 per cent per year, reaching …

Show shapes up
Added: 29 Mar 2000
This year's Processing and Packaging Machinery Association PPMA Show will for the first tim…

Fat mixing is a piece of cake
Added: 29 Mar 2000
The commercial preparation of fat and flour catering mixes used to be done in conventional …

IN BRIEF: Shell sets up a PET shop
Added: 29 Mar 2000
Shell has agreed to sell its polyethylene terephthalate (PET) business to the Italian Mossi…

Extension to CHP plant
Added: 29 Mar 2000
Gogen, the combined-heat-and-power arm of National Power, is to build a £15million extensio…

Boost for AMEC as orders flow
Added: 29 Mar 2000
In a £25million deal, AMEC has entered into a five-year alliance with Union Carbide to supp…

China takeaway
Added: 29 Mar 2000
Liquid separations specialist PCI-Memtech has won a contract from the Lukang Pharmaceutical…

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…