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Locking in on North Sea safety

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Process safety specialist Smith Flow Control has been awarded a contract worth over £131000 by cont…

Grinding is no trouble at this mill

Added: 15 Jan 2000

What is claimed to be the world's largest recirculation mill is now available in the UK fro…

MCERTS stack up

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Sira Certification Service, the appointed body to operate MCERTS scheme, has issued the fir…

EPSRC focuses on processing

Added: 15 Jan 2000

British universities and companies may be on the verge of finding new ways to accelerate pr…

New cash boost for university research

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Over £75million is to be made available to buy research equipment for universities, the dep…

PTFE forms seal of approval

Added: 15 Jan 2000

The phase-out of chlorofluorocarbon (CFC) refrigerants has forced engineers to find alterna…

Take off for rotary lobe pumps

Added: 15 Jan 2000

JP Pumps, part of the Swedish manufacturer Johnson Pump International, has started producti…

Cast iron compressors

Added: 15 Jan 2000

More wear-resistant and durable than aluminium, cast iron is an important material for comp…

Monitor water pollutants remotely

Added: 15 Jan 2000

John Hubble's team has developed a novel sensor technique to monitor water quality economic…

Versatile valve range controls low flow rates

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Liquids handling specialist Pump Engineering has been appointed UK distributor for the Reco…

Spreading webs for IFM

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Sensing and control specialist IFM Electronics has set up a website (www.ifm.co.uk) that includes a…

Synchronise systems with Sequencia

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Sequencia's Production Manager software is the only commercially available package which ca…

Ciba to the rescue in Colloids war

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Ciba Specialty Chemicals has stepped in as a 'White Knight' to rescue UK specialities firm …

Awards away

Added: 15 Jan 2000

This year's Manufacturing Industry Achievement Awards, organised by PE in conjunction with …

Contractors in ethylene alliance

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Two of the world's largest petrochemical contractors, Fluor Daniel and Stone & Webster, are…

Depth and level combination

Added: 15 Jan 2000

The DPI 280-Series are 18DIN panel-mounted indicators with a wide range of processing facil…

Piping package eases stress

Added: 15 Jan 2000

The latest release of AutoPIPE from Rebis boosts what the company claims was already the in…

Say what you do and do what you say

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Catalytic combustion - without NOx

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Catalytic combustion, in which fuels burn at a lower temperature than in conventional combu…

Asia fights to balance its books

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Huw Williams, director of Asian chemical research at NatWest Securities (NWS) Asia, painted…