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Self-priming pumps cope with solids
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Jabsco has boosted its off-the-shelf motor pump range by adding three stainless steel flexi…

Big bangs in the gas industry
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Twenty years ago, it was thought that gas explosions occurred when a flammable gas mixed wi…

Livesey spins for centrifuge specialists
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Centrifuge manufacturer Broadbent is appointing Ian Livesey to bring to fruition its long t…

Efficient wet scrubbing system
Added: 15 Jan 2000
At the Birmingham works of A E Geotze Automative, secondary aluminium is melted in induction furnac…

A sweet way to fix voltages
Added: 15 Jan 2000
British Sugar's largest plant, at Wissington in Norfolk, operates thanks to a vast array of…

Integration package helps environment protection
Added: 15 Jan 2000
According to the National Engineering Laboratory, the latest release (v4.0) of its Heatnet …

Supply of scaleable systems
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Fisher Rosemount is supplying ScinoPharm Taiwan with a DeltaV scaleable process system, part of Pla…

Colourful business
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Warner Jenkinson, one of the UK's leading suppliers of food, pharmaceutical and cosmetics c…

Optimise those plant assets
Added: 15 Jan 2000
TPS ProfitMax from Honeywell is an equation-based optimisation system that can be added to …

Digital remote control valves
Added: 15 Jan 2000
The Centec 42000 series control valve from Fisher Rosemount offers digital control and remo…

UF boost for biotreatment
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Biological treatment of industrial wastewaters generally includes conventional activated sl…

Taking the temperature of thermometry
Added: 15 Jan 2000
The Marathon MR1F is a compact, high-performance, fibre-optic, two-colour ratio thermometer…

AEA shares slip on warning
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Falling spending in the offshore oil industry and lower investment in environmental technol…

BP forms new acetic venture
Added: 15 Jan 2000
The Malaysian state petrochemicals company, Petronas, is to join forces with BP Chemicals t…

Alfa Laval regroups to form Flow specialists
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Alfa Laval is creating a new group from its stable of pump, valve and pipe manufacturers. T…

Return of the landfill directive
Added: 15 Jan 2000
The European Union's landfill directive, which was quashed by the European Parliament last …

Awake from the COMAH
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Process plant disasters occur so infrequently in this country that some see safety reports as a bur…
Secure configuration for PC-based control
Added: 15 Jan 2000
FactoryLink Enterprise Control System (ECS) Version 6.6 is the latest edition of USData's s…

DSM set to build biggest Asian LDPE plant
Added: 15 Jan 2000
DSM has signed a deal with Petronas of Malaysia and Polifin of South Africa to build the la…

Siebe's wonderful deal
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Continuing on the acquisition trail, UK engineeering giant Siebe will this month buy factor…