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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 …