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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…

News in brief

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Honeywell offloads valves

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…

Contractors

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Kvaerner looks for valid points

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…