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All change for process lines

Added: 15 Jan 2000

The new year has heralded more than the usual number of name changes among process supplier…

ARBITRATION and alternatives

Added: 15 Jan 2000

We have in the past made various comments on these pages on contractual matters (see Refere…

Compressor matches consumption to demand

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Shanks Chemical Services disposes of hazardous and toxic materials using a high temperature…

MIXING takes a spin

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Dissolving certain materials efficiently has long posed problems for foods, cosmetics and pharmaceu…

What's on at Watson-Marlow?

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Watson-Marlow's web site contains more than 60 pages of information for those seeking pump …

Bran+Luebbe goes to US

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Bran+Luebbe in its entirety has been sold to United Dominion Industries. This is the second…

In-line filters speed filling

Added: 15 Jan 2000

At its St Neots, Cambridgeshire, factory, plastisol producer Henkel Teroson UK wanted to sw…

Phys props plus from new data

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Process simulation would not be possible without a reliable source of physical properties d…

The global Brotherhood

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Peterborough-based engineering firm Brotherhood Process & Energy is to supply two reciproca…

Leukaemia all-clear

Added: 15 Jan 2000

There is no evidence for increased incidence of childhood leukaemia and non-Hodgkins lymphoma aroun…

Sweet success for Vanpipe

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Filtration specialist Vanpipe has designed and supplied a £1.1million nine-module package to a larg…

Calculations get easier and easier

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Users of Mathcad, one of the most popular calculation tools available to engineers, can now…

Gas sensor for personal safety

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Quantitech has launched a compact single gas monitor, known as the ISCT80. It offers 'enhan…

Centrifuge success spins out a second order

Added: 15 Jan 2000

When extra capacity was needed in its production of food ingredients, ADM Ringaskiddy in Co…

Pressurised pumping process succeeds for marginal well operators

Added: 15 Jan 2000

A new technique for pumping oil and gas out of `marginal' wells where pressure is low has b…

Global water in works

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Water treatment companies are restructuring in response to global demand for clean water te…

Allied Colloids comes out fighting against Hercules bid

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Hercules' hostile takeover bid for Allied Colloids was still raging as Process Engineering …

Engineering direction at IChemE

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Anthony Barber has been named director of engineering with the Institution of Chemical Engineers. …

Bridport works

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Birse Construction has been awarded a £6million contract for Bridport sewage treatment work…

Safer product sampling

Added: 15 Jan 2000

While planning the recent installation of a new processing line, engineers at Eastman Kodak…