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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…