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Unilever cleans up its portfolio

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Unilever is to stop producing 1600 of its brand-name items, focusing instead on 400 core br…

DTI is SMART

Added: 15 Jan 2000

The DTI has launched three new schemes under the SMART initiative to help small businesses …

News in Brief

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Air Products' vinyl contract...

Air Products is to build an air separation unit at R…

Processing power, or people power?

Added: 15 Jan 2000

As this month's front cover graphically illustrates, our main theme for this issue is `Comp…

`Til the cows come home

Added: 15 Jan 2000

The search for a clean form of power generation is never-ending. Farmers in north Devon are…

Monitor from afar - via the Net

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Foxboro has launched a new software product that will enable users anywhere in the world to…

Lightning strike leads to fines

Added: 15 Jan 2000

An explosion at a South Wales oil refinery three years ago has led to fines of almost £200 …

Maximising MIXING

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Du Pont and Zeneca are among a number of multinationals seeking to increase the concentrati…

Remote control cell

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Applied Measurements has introduced a load cell and a weight indicator linked by a cordless…

Flexitallic's flying flange fighters

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Engineers from sealing company Flexitallic recently found themselves flying in to tackle a …

Test facility for crossflow filtration offers process evaluation service

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Clarification, recovery and separation are techniques used in many processes. Memtech (UK) …

Smarter tank filling system

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Flowline's Smart Trak level switch package is said to offer a complete solution for automat…

ESA criticises EU landfill directive

Added: 15 Jan 2000

The European Union's proposed landfill waste directive is neither environmentally sustainab…

Biffa builds up business

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Schemes to help companies recycle a range of waste products, from fluorescent tubes to bott…

Engineers wary of Emu preparation

Added: 15 Jan 2000

British engineering employers are making hardly any preparations for the European single cu…

Operators

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Novartis poaches SmithKline boss

Pilot mixer has 65kg capacity

Added: 15 Jan 2000

The pilot plant mixer R 05 T, from Gustav Eirich, distributed in the UK and Ireland by Orth…

Amec gains its French foothold

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Amec is to team up with the management and employees of French electrical and construction …

APV debuts `first of many' sites

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Information about the APV group of companies and the products and processes they offer to t…

Homogenisers speed up mixing processing

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Designed for high speed operation, Advanced Engineering claims its mixers/homogenisers are …