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STRETCHING a point
Added: 15 Jan 2000
In an industry dominated by fast-moving technology and computer-aided everything, it's refr…
Proposed energy tax a `slap in the face' in difficult times, warns BASF
Added: 15 Jan 2000
The world's largest chemicals group, BASF, reported third-quarter pretax profits to October…
ICI opts for Osborne
Added: 15 Jan 2000
ICI has appointed Tom Osborne as chief executive of its US paints division and president of its sub…
ICI comes round to a Guinness
Added: 15 Jan 2000
The current chief executive of Guinness is to join ICI as chief operating officer and could…
Swiss belt weigher looks to UK
Added: 15 Jan 2000
FMS Force Measuring Systems (FMS) of Oberglatt, Switzerland, was established in spring 1993…
Dissecting liquid-liquid dispersions
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Understanding the complex behaviour of two phase liquid-liquid dispersions requires good me…
Smaller, lighter, smarter, cheaper
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Meggitt Mobray's MLT100 displacement level transmitter is said to offer high functionality …
Industry issues Cogen call
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Energy generators across Europe are urging the European Commission to support the cogeneration of h…
Land measures waste heat
Added: 15 Jan 2000
A thermometer specifically designed for measuring combustion temperature in waste incinerat…
BASF/Shell venture to Singapore
Added: 15 Jan 2000
BASF and Shell have announced their intention to produce styrene monomer (SM) and propylene…
BP's boiler
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Foster Wheeler has won an $18 million contract to build the heat-recovery generator and process ste…
Star role for Robag
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Polish company Star Foods has installed a TNA Robag machine to handle packs of salty snacks…
Blue Circle steps into Canada
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Cement producer Blue Circle is poised to expand across the Atlantic after agreeing to buy S…
Modern control keeps brewery steeped in tradition
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Beer drinkers may despair, lager drinkers may not care, but the Greene King brewery in Bury…
Smart work cuts transmission costs for Transco
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Cost savings of up to 80 per cent are expected by gas transmission company Transco followin…
Catalytica scoops drugs plant
Added: 15 Jan 2000
US specialities firm Catalytica is to acquire Glaxo Wellcome's pharmaceutical production plant in G…
Power gen module for SmartPlant
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Intergraph's Smart-Plant software can now be extended with a specific module for the fossil…
DTI to launch guides at C&I '98
Added: 15 Jan 2000
The Department of Trade and Industry has chosen the Control & Instrumentation '98 exhibitio…
DSM shutdown
Added: 15 Jan 2000
An explosion in the extrusion unit of DSM's polypropylene plant at Geleen has forced a temporary sh…
