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Visibility collars a new boss
Added: 15 Jan 2000
David Collar has been appointed president and chief executive of Visibility, an engineering-to-orde…
Leap Year of Faith
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Life as we know it will not come to an end but the Y2K problem will cause companies to sue or be su…New name and profile for W-M
Added: 15 Jan 2000
From the beginning of the year Watson-Marlow has taken on a new identity as Watson-Marlow B…
Kvaerner posts 1998 losses
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Anglo-Norwegian contractor Kvaerner posted an NKr1.35billion pre-tax loss for 1998. The process and…
Compressors for Egypt
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Egypt's Tourah cement works is to receive fourteen V-major and eight V-compact reciprocating compre…
CIA seeks flexible working hours
Added: 15 Jan 2000
The Chemical Industries Association is lobbying the Government for a `flexible' interpretat…
AEA's safe hands for Amersham
Added: 15 Jan 2000
AEA Technology is to buy the industrial quality and safety assurance (QSA) business of Nycomed Amer…Inflatable seals offer positive solutions
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Posi-flate is presenting a selection of inflatable-seated butterfly valves for dry solids p…
Akzo's novel cats boost polyolefins
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Akzo Nobel has started the construction of a plant to produce trimethylaluminium (TMAL), in…
Seals perform for South Africans
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Already known in the UK and Europe for its hydraulic and pneumatic seals and its bearing ma…
Supercritical fluids that create and destroy
Added: 15 Jan 2000
In keeping with Tom Edgar's comments, supercritical fluids were much in evidence at the res…
ICI faces fine for spill
Added: 15 Jan 2000
A mistake during the recommissioning of a plant in Runcorn has cost ICI over £20 000. Failu…
RO filtration brings benefits
Added: 15 Jan 2000
RO membrane filtration plant such as above, supplied by Memtech (UK) for Leicester dyehouse operato…
Pulp pressure transmitted
Added: 15 Jan 2000
An all-stainless steel pressure transmitter for the pulp and paper industries also displays…
What's the latest on sludge?
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Partech Instruments, maker of sludge level detectors, sus-pended solids monitors and turbid…
Variable drives boost mag pumps' flow capabilities
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Michael Smith Engineer's Micropump range of magnetically driven gear pumps is now available…
Waste tax set to take off
Added: 15 Jan 2000
The other main levy affecting the process industries is the increase in the landfill levy. …
Ashes to ashes, clumps to dumps
Added: 15 Jan 2000
The UK incinerates some 2.5million tonnes of municipal waste every year, generating around …
Sira gets set for MCERTS launch
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Any company operating a chimney stack will be aware of the Environment Agency's scheme for …
Particle process
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Among the particle processing (as opposed to handling) equipment on show will be several ma…
