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Clean sugar
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Skipton-based ACWa Services has received a turnkey contract for a water treatment system fo…

New range alters the Status quo
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Status Instruments has a number of new additions to its temperature measurement range.
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New fuel, NEW DANGER?
Added: 15 Jan 2000
The House of Commons environment committee has criticised the Environment Agency over the use of wa…
Flame and spark detectors defeat dust explosions
Added: 15 Jan 2000
At its plant in Sponden, Derby, Courtaulds Chemicals manufactures methyl cellulose from woo…

Texaco
Added: 15 Jan 2000
When Texaco needed to process 80m3/hr more water through the boilers at its Pembroke refinery (abov…

Filter/dryer features all-in-one processing
Added: 15 Jan 2000
A new filter/dryer, developed by process equipment manufacturer Charles Thompson, can extra…

Lure of drugs turns Hoechst's head
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Jurgen Dormann, chairman of Hoechst, has signalled a dramatic reversal in his plans for the…

Monsanto rises on DuPont talk
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Unconfirmed rumours of a merger between Monsanto and US chemical major DuPont have sent shares in t…

Honeywell sells off simulation
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Honeywell has sold its SIM-Series simulation business and rights to the Profimatics trade n…

Hoechst bolsters drugs division
Added: 15 Jan 2000
The `vast majority' of Roussel Uclaf's shareholders have accepted Hoechst's offer to buy their shar…

Sterling service
Added: 15 Jan 2000
To date, Sterling Tubes has supplied more than 5million metres of steel tube for heater tub…

DRIVE CAREFULLY and save the planet
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Electricity makes industry's world go round - and its motors. But it also contributes to global war…
Change for the better, or for change's sake?
Added: 15 Jan 2000
If anyone ever doubted the strength of the UK manufacturing sector, they should pay a visit…

Laporte registers record profits
Added: 15 Jan 2000
A three-year programme of transformation has paid off for UK speciality producer Laporte, c…

Valves, vents and variety
Added: 15 Jan 2000
A variety of valves including Strahman sampling valves and Groth tank vents can be seen on …

Optimisation on the benchtop
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Scaling up a chemical reaction is the link between the research chemist and the chemical en…

Clean coal comes to UK?
Added: 15 Jan 2000
RJB Mining, which bought the remnants of the UK coal industry after the government abandone…

Borealis agrees Huntsman link
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Nordic polyolefins major Borealis has agreed to market Huntsman's Rexflex-Pro flexible poly…

Feat of Kley
Added: 15 Jan 2000
BASF has appointed Max Dietrich Kley deputy chairman of the board of executive directors, r…

To boldly go where no robot could fit before
Added: 15 Jan 2000
In a tight spot? Toshiba might have the answer. The Japanese electronics giant has develop…