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Manufacturing edges closer to e-commerce
Added: 15 Jan 2000
UK manufacturing is being urged to embrace e-commerce if it is to thrive in the global markets. Mik…
Purite lands Bayer contract
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Purite is to supply £75,000-worth of membrane-based water purification technology to Bayer …

Market for filtration media to rocket in next decades, says report
Added: 15 Jan 2000
The world market for filtration media will increase more than four-fold in the early years …

Degussa plans investment
Added: 15 Jan 2000
German speciality chemicals firm Degussa-Huls is planning to invest E400million in European…

Practical process INTENSIFICATION
Added: 15 Jan 2000
'Process Intensification is the key to the survival of the fittest in international competi…

`Lack of competition' raises water prices
Added: 15 Jan 2000
The heads of the UK water companies are resisting the introduction of competition to the ma…

Smart washers measure torque
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Maywood Instruments has developed load washers for measuring clamping forces in screwed fas…

New unit for MES markets
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Wonderware Manufacturing Systems is a recently formed business unit of the Siebe subsidiary…

Spirax Sarco opens valve facility
Added: 15 Jan 2000
With the opening of a £4.5million manufacturing facility in Cheltenham, Spirax Sarco has la…

PAINT your wagon
Added: 15 Jan 2000
It was different in Michaelangelo's day. He only had to mix up enough egg tempura to paint …

Green power trader launch
Added: 15 Jan 2000
The UK energy market is to have its first all-renewable generator with the launch of Unit E…

Intellution launches MES alliance strategy
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Intellution has launched a manufacturing execution system `strategic alliance' programme to…

Smart transmitter does the sums too
Added: 15 Jan 2000
The latest version of Honeywell's SMV 3000 smart multivariable flow transmitter not only me…

A welcome farewell to 1996
Added: 15 Jan 2000
The German chemical industry's hard times are continuing, with growth during 1996 driven al…

CFD processing models
Added: 15 Jan 2000
AEA Technology Engineering Software has expanded its product range for the chemical process…

Sustainability with profits and vice-versa
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Economics apart, sustainable development formed the theme of the conference, with speakers …

The wedding of the year
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Engineering contractors Uhde and Krupp Koppers are to merge into a single firm, Krupp Uhde. Based …

Eureka moment displaces old fridge technology
Added: 15 Jan 2000
A breakthrough in refrigeration technology uses air as a refrigerant to economically produc…