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Smoothly does it for Avimo

Added: 15 Jan 2000

A high-precision process will often call for exacting materials choices. Avimo Thin-Film Te…

Manometer logs up to 8000 sets

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Digitron's 2000 series of instruments, which includes the 2000P manometer series, covers pr…

Hygienic vessels from Wincanton

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Wincanton's range of general-purpose process vessels is designed to suit any application wh…

Siemens bolsters marketing

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Mark Higham has been named product marketing manager at the control systems division of Siemens Aut…

SHAPA in good shape with 75th

Added: 15 Jan 2000

The importance of solids and bulk handling to the process industries has been highlighted b…

ICI offloads acrylics to venture investors

Added: 15 Jan 2000

ICI has sold its acrylics business to Ineos Acrylics, a company formed by two investment ho…

Getting closer to DP transmitters

Added: 15 Jan 2000

A familiar sight to instrument engineers - and one of the banes of their life - are the pip…

Infrared camera spots defects on North Sea oil rigs

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Preventative maintenance on BP's oil rigs in the Forties field of the North Sea has been st…

Precise gas analysers 'the key' to making brewing improvements

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Fermentation research lab Tepral, part of the Damone Group, based in Strasbourg,France, has…

Jackson shifts from Siebe

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Kevin Jackson, formerly head of sales and marketing at Siebe's control valves division, is to join …

Peristaltics put paid to cleaning problems

Added: 15 Jan 2000

One of the many problems presented to pharmaceuticals companies by the stringent requiremen…

AEA links with Cambridge

Added: 15 Jan 2000

AEA Technology has formed an alliance with Cambridge University to exploit research at the …

FoxPak leads the hunt

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Developed by control valve specialists at Siebe, the FoxPak modular process control valve s…

BP embarks on Indonesian project

Added: 15 Jan 2000

BP Chemicals has formed a joint venture to build an ambitious organic solvents complex in I…

Fine designs for FINE FEEDING

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Handling any cohesive bulk solid can be difficult, but fine powders have their own potential proble…

Hart standard on vortex meters

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Danfoss' latest generation of Vorflo vortex flowmeters feature the Hart communication proto…

PED starts to put on the pressure

Added: 15 Jan 2000

The new EC Pressure Equipment Directive (PED) comes into effect at the end of this month. Applying …

Responds to pressure demands

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Grundfos Pumps has been working with Anglia Water to achieve an accurate and constant press…

Moscow institute links with DSM

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Dutch polymers specialist DSM has established a joint research centre with the Moscow Insti…

PLC control over the air

Added: 15 Jan 2000

An RTU driver software program from Rhopoint Systems allows PLCs to be used under radio telemetry c…