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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…