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Pharmaceutical giants announce mega-merger
Added: 18 Feb 2000
As PE goes to press, the UK's leading pharmaceutical companies, Glaxo Wellcome and SmithKli…
AEA product to help boost profits from oil production
Added: 18 Feb 2000
A technology more familiar from the pharmaceutical industry could help boost oil producers'…
MCERTS makes its mark
Added: 18 Feb 2000
An oxygen analyser from ABB Instrumentation and an HCl analyser from Servomex are among the…
Laporte improvements
Added: 18 Feb 2000
New production facilities, storage areas, distillation plant and reactors, and improvements…
Volume growth ahead for chemicals in 2000
Added: 18 Feb 2000
The lean times for the chemical industry in Europe, and especially the UK, seem to be over …
Boost for AMEC as orders flow
Added: 18 Feb 2000
In a £25million deal, AMEC has entered into a five-year alliance with Union Carbide to supp…
Krupp Uhde acquires reforming
Added: 18 Feb 2000
German process technology specialist Krupp Uhde has bought the rights to an olefin-generati…
Extension to CHP plant
Added: 18 Feb 2000
Gogen, the combined-heat-and-power arm of National Power, is to build a £15million extensio…
Ciba and Nalco/Exxon team up for processing alliance
Added: 18 Feb 2000
A global alliance between Ciba Specialty Chemicals and Nalco/Exxon Energy Chemicals aims to…
Chilli source from cold gas
Added: 18 Feb 2000
If your frozen curry is lacking in punch, a new freezing process developed by Air Products …
Year-end brings burst of process acquisitions
Added: 18 Feb 2000
Pre-empting the end-of-year fireworks, the process equipment marketplace was lit up last mo…
BNFL buys ABB's nuclear operations
Added: 18 Feb 2000
A £300million deal is set to see ABB's nuclear businesses brought into BNFL. As part of its…
Microwave plasma is hot stuff for high-temp work
Added: 18 Feb 2000
A new plasma heater could help boost the performance of incinerators and be a valuable tool…
COMAH deadline looms for processes
Added: 18 Feb 2000
Time is running out for companies that store and use hazardous chemicals to inform the gove…
Distributed, but together
Added: 18 Feb 2000
With the introduction of `Distributed Server Architecture' as part of its PlantScape Releas…
PlantWeb chalks up 500
Added: 18 Feb 2000
Fisher-Rosemount has reached the 500 mark in project sales of its field-based PlantWeb cont…
Shell heads online
Added: 18 Feb 2000
Shell has become the first of the petrochemical majors to take the leap into the e-commerce…
Fastest steam plant
Added: 18 Feb 2000
The fastest-responding steam plant in the UK, shown here, is helping Terra Nitrogen operate its air…Barlo to buy ICI Acrylics in Germany
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Barlo Group, the Irish packaging and radiator manufacturer, is buying ICI Acrylics GmbH, wh…
BOC purifies
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Maidstone-based Whatman is supplying nitrogen generation membrane systems to BOC in a £3.5m…
