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No need for re-entry as Foxboro's plantwide package takes off
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Foxboro has announced a plantwide engineering productivity solution that combines the funct…

Process weighing family designed for the future
Added: 15 Jan 2000
A new family of instruments from process weighing specialist Nobel Systems has been designe…

Compressor boosts penicillin fermenter prodution
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Synpac Pharmaceuticals has boosted penicillin production at its plant in Bedlington, Northu…

Thayer gain
Added: 15 Jan 2000
US dry solids feed supplier Thayer Scale is also open for business on the web. The site has been d…

Targor plant in Germany
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Targor, the BASF/Hoechst polypropylene joint venture, has opened this new PP copolymers plant at it…

Safety at work
Added: 15 Jan 2000
The Institute of Occupational Safety and Health website has been relaunched with a 'chat forum' and…

Valves from Reiss
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Hwange power station in Zimbabwe is supplied with £62,000 worth of knife gate valves from Reiss Eng…

Degussa commissions `first industrial scale' PDO plant
Added: 15 Jan 2000
German chemicals manufacturer Degussa has commissioned the world's first industrial scale 1…

PLASMA ZAPS POLLUTION
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Pulsed corona discharge (that's plasma to you and me) can detoxify gaseous pollutants in the flue g…
From bulk to bag and back again
Added: 15 Jan 2000
In many process industries solids handling comes down to no more than moving bags of materi…

Elga's variation
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Water technology specialist Elga has launched an information service on the world wide web. The si…

America hold ports
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Chicago-based distribution giants GATX is selling six of its wholly owned terminals in the …

Beer we go
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Three Liquidata beer analysers from NDC Infrared are helping Whitbread make its blending pr…

Queen's Awards span crackers to crop protection
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Process companies were well represented among the winners of the Queen's Awards for Industr…

Belt UP!
Added: 15 Jan 2000
'If we're talking about belt weighers integrated with process control systems then the cont…

You play the game, you know the rules
Added: 15 Jan 2000
* The Electricity at Work Regulations 1989 impose a duty on employers and the self-employed…

RISKY business
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Imagine the situation. You learn that there has been a serious accident on the premises. Se…

Tales of the wily Foxboro
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Foxboro is to become the sole supplier of control systems for BASF's plants in the US, Canada and M…