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Pump chamber screens solids

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Mono's track record in river water abstraction has secured it a contract from North West Wa…

Spectroscopy technique improves destruction of chemical weapons

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Disposing of ancient chemical weapons is a considerable problem. Unused ammunitions can be …

Constant development

Added: 15 Jan 2000

The 'OS' high pressure batch processor, capable of handling pastes, suspensions or solids, …

Waste not, want not says Demos report

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Government policy on waste management is leading the country down a dead end, according to …

EVC explores vinyl frontier

Added: 15 Jan 2000

A new process to produce vinyl chloride monomer directly from ethane is the focus of an all…

Transmitter fits tightest spaces

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Introduced by Panametrics, the O2X 1 transmitter combines high performance with accuracy an…

SUPPLIERS

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Foster Wheeler sure of Shell

BATCH WEIGHING fuels the reactors

Added: 15 Jan 2000

In many industries accurate weighing and dispensing of batched material is a crucial part of the ma…

Intensified separation processes

Added: 15 Jan 2000

The last paper presented at the three-day Antwerp conference was perhaps the perfect way to…

Elf and happiness for Gresham

Added: 15 Jan 2000

David Gresham has been appointed managing director of Elf Atochem UK, succeeding James Puckridge, w…

ICI paints India

Added: 15 Jan 2000

ICI Paints has extended its production capacity in India to 50 million litres/yr with the opening o…

Profits up... and branching out

Added: 15 Jan 2000

'The weather is not so good,' commented BASF chairman Jurgen Strube on a typically sodden N…

Data squeezed out of bioparticles

Added: 15 Jan 2000

The Micromanipulation Group of the Centre for Bioprocess Engineering has developed novel me…

FES warms to refrigeration order

Added: 15 Jan 2000

The Peter Brotherhood subsidiary, FES International, has won another order to supply refrigeration …

Nova shells out for PS

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Canada's Nova Chemicals has emerged as the highest bidder in Shell's auction of its polysty…

FoE calls for chemical bans

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Environmental pressure group Friends of the Earth has called for a ban on all chemicals whi…

Cycle avoidance is key as DSM shifts gears

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Dutch chemical major DSM is continuing its shift towards the low-volume, high-value end of …

No compromises with multi-loop controller

Added: 15 Jan 2000

According to ABB Kent-Taylor, process plant engineers wanting to implement defined control …

Acid test for citric plant

Added: 15 Jan 2000

ABS (acrylobutyl styrene) is often used for its acid and alkali resistance. Tate & Lyle, fo…

NEL wins UK contract

Added: 15 Jan 2000

The Department of Trade and Industry is to fund a new three-year `flow programme' at the Na…