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Cherry flowers at Thames Side
Added: 15 Jan 2000
John Cherry has left Roston Automation to take on the role of sales and marketing director at force…

Lasers test explosive gas mixtures
Added: 15 Jan 2000
A project to investigate the safe use of optical methods of measurement and communications …

Double delight for network designers
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Rockwell has introduced two new versions of its RSNetWorx network configuration and managem…

FWEL wins simulation contest
Added: 15 Jan 2000
A team from Foster Wheeler Energy has won the first BPCup, awarded for a project management competi…

Emission permits for sale: only one careful owner?
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Could it be that BP Amoco is `crying wolf' in preferring tradeable emissions to energy taxes?
Sensor report from Gambica
Added: 15 Jan 2000
A 40-page report from instrumentation, control and automation association Gambica details the findi…

Sensor handles high humidity
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Michell Instruments claims it has designed a humidity sensor that is not damaged by condensation if…

Weir brushes off takeover
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Glasgow-based pump manufacturer Weir Pumps has refused a £600million takeover bid from American pum…

Process pioneer tops New Year list
Added: 15 Jan 2000
David Harrison, master of Selwyn College, Cambridge, and former president of the Institution of Che…

Acrylics for sale as BASF focuses on styrenics
Added: 15 Jan 2000
BASF is seeking a buyer for its polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) business, having decided that it can…
CIA's Sourcerer spells it like it is
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Information about UK chemical products and suppliers is available on the Internet from the …

Coriolis credit
Added: 15 Jan 2000
In our December 1996 issue on page 27 we illustrated an article on mass flowmeters with a picture t…

Versatile PID controllers
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Complementing the company's existing panel meters, a new range of PID controllers from Carl…

Hyder seeks new blood
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Mark Kibblewhite is to take on the job of managing director of Hyder Consulting's environmental lab…

Battle for UK engineering
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Industry and energy minister John Battle has announced that the Department of Trade and Industry wi…

Universal transmitter for temperature
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Smart enough to cope with outputs from any commonly used temperature sensor, slide-wire tra…

Scrubbers slash sulphur and chlorine emissions
Added: 15 Jan 2000
When a speciality chemicals producer needed to slash the emissions from chlorination and su…

Goodtech filters salt of the ocean
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Industrial filter manufacturer Goodtech Vanpipe has designed an automatic backwashing filte…

CIA issues optimistic forecast
Added: 15 Jan 2000
The chemical industry may be facing tough times, but the longer-term prospects are still po…