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Added: 15 Jan 2000

Courtaulds gets protective

Composting of brewery waste

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Stuart Guy and Andrew Barker are researching the accelerated composting of brewery waste us…

Control of ingredients wet or dry

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Esteve's range of ingredients control and handling systems, for solids and liquids, is avai…

Zeneca shells out $500 million on Japanese fungicides company

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Zeneca has strengthened its commitment to non-pharmaceutical products by spending $500 mill…

Compact industrial computers

Added: 15 Jan 2000

With its new Pipanel range of industrial computers, Pilz claims to have taken a major step …

UK opening for ICI/Mitsubishi recycling technology

Added: 15 Jan 2000

ICI and Mitsubishi have chosen a UKsite for the first plant to test out their technology fo…

Weir wins orders far and wide

Added: 15 Jan 2000

The wide-ranging Weir Group continues to pick up contracts from around the world. Some £6.5million…

BASF and FINA crack it in Texas

Added: 15 Jan 2000

The vogue for mammoth plant building (see pages 7 & 9)appears to be worldwide. In Port Arth…

No more N2O? BASF's laughing

Added: 15 Jan 2000

BASF has completed trials of a new process to remove nitrous oxide laughing gas from the of…

Membrane cuts hydrogen waste

Added: 15 Jan 2000

A rugged polymeric gas separation membrane could help expand the use of industrial separati…

BP-BASF effort

Added: 15 Jan 2000

BP Amoco and BASF are commissioning a 9,000tpa acetonitrile purification plant at Seal Sand…

KCC to cater for process industries

Added: 15 Jan 2000

KCC, supplier to the oil and gas industry, has bought its Suffolk-based long-term sub contr…

Safety reports by e-mail

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Inspection company Plant Safety, based in Manchester, has launched a novel series of electr…

EAT can 'virtually eliminate' sludge

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Energy consultancy EA Technology has been granted patent rights for a new sewage treatment …

Landfill power to fill energy gap

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Use of landfill gases as a fuel for power generation has been so successful that energy min…

Micro PLC bridges the gap to process control

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Mitsubishi Electric's 'next generation' of micro PLCs, the FX2N, features powerful, dedicat…

Process firms prosper in manufacturing awards

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Processing equipment suppliers featured prominently at last month's presentation ceremony i…

Ibn Zahr complex installs PRAMS

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Marex Technology - part of the Yokogawa group of companies - will soon complete the install…

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…

BP rewards its own innovators

Added: 15 Jan 2000

BP Chemicals has named the winners of its 1996 in-house Awards for Innovation. The company…