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Europe to lead drives market

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Europe is set to be the world's largest market for AC drives over the next five years, over…

Gateway ASi to any network

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Connecting ASi (actuator sensor interface) systems to other industrial communications netwo…

Cement firms crack a smile at '97

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Reporting positive sets of annual results, two major UK cement manufacturers say they are e…

Strides for Strube

Added: 15 Jan 2000

BASF chairman Jurgen Strube has been awarded the SCI's 1999 Centenary Medal.

Pumping out information

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Engineers and pump purchasers are guided to pump vendors worldwide via an on-line directory…

Charles Austen avoids big bangs

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Hydrogen atmospheres and other potentially explosive situations are no problem for Charles …

Keeping cool in the heat and dust of production

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Variable speed motors are rapidly growing in popularity in many areas of the process indust…

Vroom for guesswork at C&I '98

Added: 15 Jan 2000

It's Jeremy Clarkson's favourite British car and it could be yours, if you pre-register for…

Clear as crystal

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Crystallisation is a vital part of many chemical processes, particularly in the fine chemic…

Separation market to grow

Added: 15 Jan 2000

The recovery of the European economies, new emissions legislation and the growth in the Eur…

CEFIC calls for RC `dialogue'

Added: 15 Jan 2000

The chemical industry has much to do to improve its workers' and stakeholders' knowledge of Respons…

Ultraviolet method for organic destruction

Added: 15 Jan 2000

A new ultraviolet (UV) light water treatment process from Hanovia pushes forward the bounda…

Playing safe with ELSI

Added: 15 Jan 2000

The East London Sludge Incineration project (ELSI), currently under construction for Thames Water a…

Cool runnings

Added: 15 Jan 2000

A spin off of the Air CHP development which has yet to be commercialised is its potential t…

APV boosts sales side

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Following its acquisition last year by the perpetually acquisitive Siebe Group (see page 5)…

Vacuum valves

Added: 15 Jan 2000

The Muller Co-Ax valve range, available through electropneumatics specialist KV Automation …

Fast track to water success

Added: 15 Jan 2000

When Southern Water decided it needed to `resurrect' a derelict water treatment works it im…

Molecular modelling leads the way in drugs discovery research

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Despite the growing interest in simulation modelling for designing pharmaceuticals plants, …

Design software market grows

Added: 15 Jan 2000

The worldwide market for three-dimensional plant design and management software grew by 28 per cent…

The daily GRIND

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Process companies are increasingly outsourcing parts of their operation, particularly the more spec…