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Tyco Valves says hello

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Pressure relief and instrument valve manufacturer Anderson Greenwood, part of Keystone Inte…

It's all in THE MIX

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Gareth James presents the case for adding static mixer elements to shell and tube-type heat…

Amalgamation forms seal giant

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Manchester-based Flowserve Corporation, with $1.2billion turnover, has amalgamated four man…

Suite to link discrete and continuous control

Added: 15 Jan 2000

WizFactory from PC Soft International is said to be the first PC software suite that combin…

Time to fly the GREEN STANDARD

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Environmental management systems have not yet been embraced by industry with the same fervour that …

SmithKline, and the science base, avoid an iceberg

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Time has a way of playing tricks on monthly magazines. In our last issue, we reported on a …

Picking up good vibrations

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Mike Caldwell has been appointed sales manager of Invicta Vibrators, the UK's largest maker of rota…

Jabsco goes global

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Pump manufacturer ITT Jabsco's website contains information on the company's range of indus…

ICI nets fibre solution

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Organisations in search of energy efficient solutions to thermal insulation challenges can …

Millennium goes for gas

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Domnick Hunter has been awarded a Millennium Products award for its Maxigas nitrogen gas generator.…

COST/CAPACITY RELATIONSHIPS from first principles: Part 1

Added: 15 Jan 2000

We often assume that a power law operates which is a good predictor of the capital cost of a proces…

Powder feeder boosts plastic pipe production

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Many process engineers will specify plastic pipework for particular processes, but few migh…

MEMBRANES set to clean up

Added: 15 Jan 2000

As the costs of membranes come down, so their performance goes up. The result has been a boom in th…

Putting the kernel in charge of PLC control

Added: 15 Jan 2000

According to Hayes Control Systems, with TwinCAT software it is possible to run PLC tasks on a stan…

Pop-Top filter

Added: 15 Jan 2000

The Pop-Top filter bag and cage from Hosokawa Micron is said to drastically reduce the time and cos…

Thanks for the PTFE memory

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Economos, together with its recently acquired company Merkel, have introduced what they say…

Safer, faster tube cleaning

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Developed by Tube Tech, the Pullman is a patented tube-bundle cleaning system that is said …

BP and Aspen unite to boost oil value by $1/2 per barrel

Added: 15 Jan 2000

BP Oil's refineries could soon be enjoying a boost in productivity thanks to a joint ventur…

Engineering: a brighter future for all concerned?

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Which company, if any, has taken over ICI's role as the bell-wether of the economy?

Zeneca insists on its independence

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Recent merger fever in the world pharmaceuticals industry has failed to dent the determinat…