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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…

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 …