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Transmitter weighs in on high speed duties

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Designed for high-speed process and inventory weighing applications, Nobel Systems' BLH Lcp…

Kobe Steel to build in Saudi

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Kobe Steel is to build two process plants in Saudi Arabia: a 70,000tpa chlor-alkali plant, …

Tradition with a MODERN SPIRIT

Added: 15 Jan 2000

For many brewers, distillers and winemakers, their products' history is almost as important as thei…

Oil and gas spell growth for valves

Added: 15 Jan 2000

The floodgates seem set to remain resolutely shut for valve and actuator manufacturers. The…

Dryers that stay cool, whatever the weather

Added: 15 Jan 2000

For the past 30 years, users of compressed air concerned about water in their systems and e…

Croda takes an Applied approach

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Croda Resins employs electronic weighing to improve the quality of its products as well as …

Many parts in perfect cereal

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Nothing could be simpler than a bowl of cornflakes. Except, that is, if you're in charge of…

News in brief

Added: 15 Jan 2000

* HSE pushes for reform

Mathcad upgrade has 50 new functions and extra graphics

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Mathsoft International and Adept Scientific have introduced Mathcad 8, a desktop applicatio…

Rockwell launches dedicated software

Added: 15 Jan 2000

The new version of Rockwell Automation's RSBatch package is designed specifically for the A…

DSM expands pharma pilot

Added: 15 Jan 2000

DSM has opened an extension to its fine chemicals division's pilot plant facility at Venlo,…

Sounding out on silo cleaning

Added: 15 Jan 2000

One of the world's leading manufacturers of plaster board, Knauf, has recently installed Si…

Membrane concentrates nitric acid

Added: 15 Jan 2000

An electrically-driven polymer membrane process may offer an economical alternative to dist…

Control without crossed wires

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Northamptonshire-based Smartscan is launching what it claims is the world's first safety sy…

Privatisation fuels green sector

Added: 15 Jan 2000

The world environmental technology market will grow from $888bn in 1996 to over $1000bn by …

Correction

Added: 15 Jan 2000

In a Research Review article in May (page 20, `Ashes to ashes, clumps to dumps'), we stated…

BB&V lands hot waste project

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Binnie Black & Veatch has been awarded a £1.2million contract to improve the reliability of…

Using advanced control for PROFITABILITY

Added: 15 Jan 2000

In the oil industry, it's no longer a question of whether or not to implement advanced control tech…

Vibration-proof cell for stability

Added: 15 Jan 2000

A new generation of Smart Force Transducers (SFT2) from K-Tron uses the resonant frequency …

Companies still ignoring Year 2000, warns IT group

Added: 15 Jan 2000

More than three-quarters of British businesses have made no provision for the 'Millennium b…