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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…

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…