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Investment boom for computers
Added: 15 Jan 2000
British industry is to invest over £3.1billion in information technology in the coming year -the hi…

Conoco contract
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Honeywell has won a five-year contract from Conoco to provide support, maintenance and cons…

Management takes to the Internet
Added: 15 Jan 2000
At a recent joint event in Birmingham, key players in the manufacturing IT market demonstra…

Filter stands up to hot washes
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Equipment for the food and beverage industries has to cope with the degrading effects of fr…

EU approves Salter kit
Added: 15 Jan 2000
The first weight indicator to 'behave like a computer' has received trade approval for use …
Z-blade extruder meets challenge
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Winkworth Machinery recently produced its largest Z-blade extruder mixer in response to a challenge…

CIM 97 EXHIBITION pushes process
Added: 15 Jan 2000
This year's Computers in Manufacturing exhibition, CIM 97, has broadened its scope to take in more …
THE DRIVE to a better standard
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Much has been said, and written, in recent years about the advantages of powering process m…

EPSRC launches £6M water research project
Added: 15 Jan 2000
To improve the standards of Britain's hard-pressed water industry, the Engineering and Phys…

Brum's supercritical extraction breakthroughs
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Since the early 1970s researchers at Birmingham have been investigating supercritical fluid…

Moore Products' net benefits
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Real control of industrial processes through the Internet is still a long way off, but Moore Produc…
New cracker, but slimmed-down catalysts for BASF
Added: 15 Jan 2000
BASF is to build a new steam cracker in the Gulf Coast region of the US. The unit will alm…

Delkor introduces pilot filter
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Delkor's new `pilot scale' filter will allow companies to carry out laboratory tests on mat…

BOC builds 'the world's largest' nitrogen plant
Added: 15 Jan 2000
BOC is to build the largest nitrogen complex in the world in Mexico, to supply the gas to t…

Asia's growing pains
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Key meetings on the prospects of chemicals industries worldwide have reiterated the pitfalls of osc…
Feedstock atomiser design based on aero engine
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Aero & Industrial Technology (AIT) has employed aero engine technology to design and manufa…

Plant cost data for budgeting
Added: 15 Jan 2000
We have recently received the following letter from Dr VV Mahajani of Bombay University:
Hand-in-hand DMM and calibrator
Added: 15 Jan 2000
The Fluke 787 ProcessMeter is a combination of a digital multimeter (DMM) and a loop calibr…

Rewards for researchers
Added: 15 Jan 2000
A family of fungicides, an enzyme-catalysed asymmetric synthesis and a powder moulding proc…

A saving stitch in time and energy
Added: 15 Jan 2000
In a very energy- and labour-intensive operation, thread was previously wound on to a forme…