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Smart pressure from mbar to bar
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Druck's latest STX 2000 `smart' Hart-compatible pressure transmitter offers ranges from 70m…

The laser's hot for burning
Added: 15 Jan 2000
It's rather ironic, but waste disposal is one of the largest producers of industrial emissi…

Power fluidics SCRUBS PARTICULATES
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Increasingly, the process industries, and notably the pharmaceuticals industries, are adopt…

New team at the top for Glaxo
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Richard Sykes, chief executive and deputy chairman of pharmaceuticals giant Glaxo Wellcome, is to s…

Ion charges in - positively
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Nobel Systems has appointed Malcolm Ion as sales engineer for its process weighing division, coveri…

Curds and Weir
Added: 15 Jan 2000
The Weir group has been busy, particularly Entropie-Serit, which has installed and commissi…

Shh... don't make a noise about it
Added: 15 Jan 2000
As the main text shows, valve and actuator manufacturers are making a big noise about 'smar…

China crisis as ECC falls to French firm
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Cornwall-based minerals and specialities company English China Clays has accepted a £756mil…

Taxing times
Added: 15 Jan 2000
BP and Amoco have exploited a tax loophole allowing them to avoid some £485million in taxes resulti…

IChemE unveils a sustainable view of the future
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Drive to the shops in your hydrogen-powered car, get measured up for a factory-made suit th…

Time is money
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Grant proposals submitted to the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council were processed …

Valves meet TA-Luft standards
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Available as an option on its established range of Series 2000 globe valves, Honeywell's ne…

BASF ventures into strategic alliances
Added: 15 Jan 2000
BASF is planning to merge its polyolefins businesses with those of Shell, creating the world's larg…
Bang the drum
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Serfilco Europe's drum pumps are capable of emptying a 205litre barrel in under two minutes…

Open networks or OPEN MINDS?
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Are you looking for the `ideal' network solution? Chris Hazlewood suggests you won't find it unless…
Merger fallout reaps jobs at BP Amoco
Added: 15 Jan 2000
BP Amoco speeds up cost-cutting programme following merger, cutting 10,000 jobs worldwide with 3000…
A clear view of fuzzy logic
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Aimed at demystifying fuzzy-logic control, Klockner-Moeller's latest compact PLC, the PS4-4…

Shareholders question environment policies at Shell
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Shell might have thought that the storm over the Brent Spar and its activities in Nigeria had passe…
Information toolkit drills down to plant
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Some two years in its development, a new PC-based management information tool from Industri…

ICI paints expansion
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Continuing its policy of expanding its paints division, ICI has bought almost all the assets of St …