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Haltermann joins Ascot
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Ascot, parent of Chemoxy and Pentagon chemicals, is acquiring the custom contractor Halterm…

Tomlinson chairs British Water's industry group
Added: 15 Jan 2000
The Capital Controls Group's sales and marketing director, Frank Tomlinson, has been electe…

Tough pump handles low flows, high pressures
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Michael Smith Engineering has introduced a range of single-stage side channel pumps, design…

Following merger mania, a year of tough trading
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Stuart Nathan rounds up the flurry of merger and acquisition activity that marked the end of 1998, …
Fieldbus now OUT IN THE FIELD
Added: 15 Jan 2000
After over a decade of developments, debates and downright disagreements, the fieldbus saga is at l…
WINNING the paper chase
Added: 15 Jan 2000
As international competition puts the squeeze on the UK's pulp and paper industry, engineering solu…
German trials for portable gas testing
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Germany's lime and cement plants are often called Dreckschleudern - the filthy tongues - by…

COMAH launched
Added: 15 Jan 2000
The Control of Major Accident Hazard Regulations 1999 (COMAH), due to take legal effect in April, h…

Wiking up at Perstorp
Added: 15 Jan 2000
After six years as president, Gosta Wiking has been elected chairman of the board at Swedish chemic…

IChemE marks its `double jubilee'
Added: 15 Jan 2000
The Institution of Chemical Engineers is 75 this year, and is also celebrating the 40th ann…

Compact flanges cut installation
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Vacuum-brazed compact flanges of DN-type are being introduced on SWEP's heat exchangers for…

Simultaneous nylon monomers from DuPont/BASF
Added: 15 Jan 2000
New plants which produce two comonomers of nylon simultaneously could be at the centre of a…

Drive time
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Brunner Mond has been upgrading and replacing obsolete drives which pump cooling water to i…

Nuclear reactions
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Scottish Nuclear boasts that 50 000 virtual visitors have perused its `Come and See' intera…

Pump it up!
Added: 15 Jan 2000
According to the company, Process Engineering 97 is the perfect platform for recently acqui…

Food bugs overcharged by ions
Added: 15 Jan 2000
A culture of Enterobacter agglomerans after air ion treatment in the centre
Where in the world?
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Investment for capital projects obviously differs according to the location of the project.…

IP probes safety of high pressure heat exchangers
Added: 15 Jan 2000
The Institute of Petroleum (IP) is overseeing a £319 000 joint industry research project in…

Sigma security senses valves from the control room
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Sigma Controls' Prosafe MTV3 mechanical interlocking device, for gate, globe and gear opera…

HSE announces research plans
Added: 15 Jan 2000
The Health and Safety Executive has published its second research programme for 1997/98 and…