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Modern motors for modern drives
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Despite their increasing popularity, variable speed drives still probably account for only …

Oxo technology beefs up Simon Carves
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Synetix, ICI's catalysts division, has forged an agreement with process contractor Simon Ca…

Tetra Pak's Russian baby boom
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Uxbridge-based Tetra Pak has been awarded a £7million contract to supply processing and packaging e…

Electromagnetic heating for food
Added: 15 Jan 2000
The FRPERC (above) has also just started work on a three-year project to investigate electr…

A kneady case for control
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Manufacturer of food-grade emulsifiers for the bakery industry, AB Technology until recentl…

Mono clears jamming pumps
Added: 15 Jan 2000
The Sara Lee Bakery in Bridlington, Yorkshire was in need of a pump to transfer jam, a shea…

Badger's SET RIGHT
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Even the most traditional of breweries can't get by without up-to-date control equipment. …

Low-dioxin waste treatment process set for launch in Japan
Added: 15 Jan 2000
A process that turns many types of waste into a combustible gas is about to receive its fir…

Air Products cryogenic unit
Added: 15 Jan 2000
On time and on budget, this £9million air separation unit is Air Products' latest on-site supplier …

Visitor campaign hots up
Added: 15 Jan 2000
The visitor campaign started in September, nine months before the show. As things hot up fo…

A&W names Robin Paul's successor
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Robin Rocheleau is to take over as chief executive of inorganic chemicals specialist Albright & Wil…

Membranes make efficient emulsions more easily
Added: 15 Jan 2000
In collaboration with Disperse Technologies, Fairey Industrial Ceramics and the University …

COMBUSTION control
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Every combustion process in the process industries generates emissions. The science of emis…

German acquisition sets a new precedent
Added: 15 Jan 2000
MG's acquisition creates a chemicals and engineering group on a giant scale. Roger Brownlie reports…
Simulation takes off
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Process Systems Enterprise (PSE), the spin-off company from Imperial College London, is abo…

USF fits gas for glass
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Pilkington, the St Helens-based glass manufacturer, produces a range of glass products for …

Parker purifies filter range
Added: 15 Jan 2000
The Process Filter Division of Parker Hannifin can now provide new ranges of polyethersulph…

Cleaner combustion and catalytic reactions
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Combustion emissions of SOx, NOx and particulates from heavy oils and the interaction of th…

Grimsby's gain
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Acordis, the fibres subsidiary of Akzo Nobel which includes the business recently acquired …

AEA Technology in Cadcentre deal
Added: 15 Jan 2000
AEA Technology Engineering Software last month announced its intention to form a strategic alliance…