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Salt-resistant actuator can act tough in control
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Designed to give reliable, extended service in even the most arduous of operating condition…

Clyde wins £600000 nickel order
Added: 15 Jan 2000
The process division of Clyde Pneumatic Conveying has won a contract worth over £600000 from Swanse…

'PROCESS INDUSTRY ECONOMICS': A Book review
Added: 15 Jan 2000
The problem with a book entitled 'Process Industry Economics' is that the field it addresse…

After all, you're my Wonderware
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Available in the UK next month from Pantek, distributor of Wonderware's InTouch automation …

EPA approves Autoset
Added: 15 Jan 2000
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has approved Bykom's neural network software, …

SMART WORK in control valves
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Fieldbus or no fieldbus, there is no dobt that valve manufacturers are switching on to the benefits…
Curriculumvitae
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Hiring new staff can be an expensive headache. Finding a new job can be equally so. Roger Brownlie …
Coriolis gets OK for custody work
Added: 15 Jan 2000
The Rheonik Coriolis mass flowmeter, available in the UK through exclusive representative A…

All sweetness and light, and heat
Added: 15 Jan 2000
A new combined heat and power plant at British Sugar's Bury St Edmunds factory in Suffolk w…

Cutting crude behaviour
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Fouling on surfaces occurs widely in the process industry. Effective process plant cleanin…

Shake-up at Totton
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Jerry Russell is to take over as director and general manager of Southampton-based company Totton P…

BOC and Foster Wheeler link up
Added: 15 Jan 2000
BOC and Foster Wheeler Energy have joined forces to offer power, heat and industrial gases …

BTP's Teesport site sold
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Albemarle has bought the Teesport, UK, manufacturing site and oilfields chemicals business …

Advanced control for Foxboro
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Siebe, the UK parent of control major Foxboro, has acquired the Northwich-based advanced co…

STEP Tools adds support for IGES
Added: 15 Jan 2000
STEP Tools, software supplier for implementing the STEP standard, has added support for IGE…

Drugs bring jobs to Northeast
Added: 15 Jan 2000
The UK subsidiary of the American drugs giant Merck is to invest £8.5million in expanding its manuf…

Akzo completes Acordis talks
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Akzo Nobel and CVC have completed their negotiations over CVC's acquisition of Acordis, the…

Tyred and emotional in Illinois
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Researchers from the University of Illinois and the Illinois State Geological Survey have d…

Weigh up the future
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Described as a 6th generation microprocessor-controlled load cell indicator and transmitter…

SMALL is beautiful
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Scale-up is one of the perennial problems of all branches of the chemical industry - how do…