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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…