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Added: 15 Jan 2000

Finnish power groups merge

Scrubbers slash sulphur and chlorine emissions

Added: 15 Jan 2000

When a speciality chemicals producer needed to slash the emissions from chlorination and su…

Goodtech filters salt of the ocean

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Industrial filter manufacturer Goodtech Vanpipe has designed an automatic backwashing filte…

CIA issues optimistic forecast

Added: 15 Jan 2000

The chemical industry may be facing tough times, but the longer-term prospects are still po…

Analogue modules for ASi bus systems

Added: 15 Jan 2000

IFM Electronic has introduced a range of high-speed, high-accuracy analogue modules for use with sy…

Hoechst forges E German deal

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Dow and Hoechst are to join forces to build an acrylic acid plant at the Buna Sow Leuna Olefinverbu…

Eastern threat and promise at BP

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Not quite up to record levels, but still turning in a strong performance, BP turned its tho…

Network comes prepackaged

Added: 15 Jan 2000

PPCN is Honeywell's prepackaged plant control network for its TotalPlant Solution (TPS) ope…

Eutech lends supports to MIAAs

Added: 15 Jan 2000

ICI's wholly-owned engineering consultancy subsidiary, Eutech, has joined the sponsors of t…

From lab to plant and back

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Dublin-based Orbis Information Systems has introduced a software package offering real-time data in…

Enhanced PLC takes on the market

Added: 15 Jan 2000

From Schneider comes the new Modicon TSX Micro PLC, which features several enhancements for…

Results match in mix tests

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Scaling-up reactors is a perennial problem in process design. Reactions are carried out in …

`Remixed' XTC meter for steam

Added: 15 Jan 2000

SteaMeter from Moore Products is a smart transmitter that combines differential pressure me…

Chemical weapons supremo

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Tom Inch, secretary-general of the Royal Society of Chemistry, has been appointed chairman …

Plastic housing grows in popularity

Added: 15 Jan 2000

In the two years since its launch, the Ametek filter bag plastic housing (above) has grown in popul…

Paper recycling under control

Added: 15 Jan 2000

ABB Industrial Systems has supplied a £1.5 million production and quality management inform…

BOC helps to keep Surrey sweet

Added: 15 Jan 2000

BOC Gases is to supply oxygen to a new ozonation plant at the Egham water treatment works of North …

Tanks heading for Cyprus

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Via a major contractor, Forbes is to supply £300000 worth of storage and treatment tanks to a new c…

European water falls to Nalco

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Nalco Chemical Company, an affiliate of Nalco Exxon Energy Chemicals, is buying three Europ…

Diverse Flowserve range is leak-free

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Flowserve's new range of non-metallic pumps is designed to deliver reliable and leak-free p…