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On-line mass spectrometry steels a lead from the lab
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Traditionally a lab-based analytical technique, mass spectrometry has gone `on-line' in a b…
SmithKline Beecham to close production plants
Added: 15 Jan 2000
The pitfalls of trying to predict future trends have rebounded upon SmithKline Beecham. For…
Feeding and conveying
Added: 15 Jan 2000
A specialist manufacturer of filtered sack tipping and compacting equipment, Vibrair Solids…
Visitor boost for C&I Show
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Twice as many visitors are expected at this year's Control & Instrumentation Exhibition as came to …
LINKING THE LAB into open systems
Added: 15 Jan 2000
As product launches go, LabSystems' recent unveiling of its new chromatography data system …
Newly-weds sell furniture
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Brand new BTR Siebe is reported to be considering the sell off of over £1.5 billion of busi…
Wood energy
Added: 15 Jan 2000
A biomass power station destined for Eggborough near Selby, is to be built by Elsag Bailey at the r…
The factory of 2000 here now
Added: 15 Jan 2000
FactorySuite 2000, the latest version of Wonderware's manufacturing and management informat…
Soda stream
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Elf Atochem has agreed to sell its Tg Soda Ash subsidiary to FMC for an undisclosed sum. The deal c…
Checkweigher has data display
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Graseby Product Monitoring has developed a novel checkweigher which builds upon the company…
Taxes on the way?
Added: 15 Jan 2000
European companies are bracing themselves for the onset of environmental taxes, according to a surv…
Keeping the pinta fresh
Added: 15 Jan 2000
The sudden transformation of a pint of milk into yogurt could be delayed by new technology …
Kalsep's membrane filters clean up at Greene King
Added: 15 Jan 2000
The largest single ingredient in beer is also the most overlooked - it's water. Making sur…
Plants are constructed
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Construction has started on BP Amoco's first world-scale 1,4-butanediol plant in Lima, Ohio…
Smart paper work by ABB
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Under the terms of an exclusive agreement, ABB Industrial Systems is to market and sell the…
Varley leaves Tyco after 42 years
Added: 15 Jan 2000
David Simpson is to succeed Brian Varley as managing director of Leeds-based Tyco Valves, which enc…
Purer gases cut costs
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Companies using chromatography gases could find that a new innovation from Air Products wil…
3D plant view without CAD experience
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Review, by Prosolvia, is part of the PS-Engine suite of software, allowing non-CAD users wi…
Millennium fountain
Added: 15 Jan 2000
ABB's millennium preparations aren't confined to making sure the company's installations ar…
UK AND INTERNATIONAL PLANT COST INDICES
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Process Engineering's PREDICT plant cost index for the UK is made up of five components cov…
