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Cool solution for the Big Heat
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Unusual situations call for innovative thinking. When Merseyside-based Mannings Thermal and…

Valves from Reiss
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Hwange power station in Zimbabwe is supplied with £62,000 worth of knife gate valves from Reiss Eng…

Degussa commissions `first industrial scale' PDO plant
Added: 15 Jan 2000
German chemicals manufacturer Degussa has commissioned the world's first industrial scale 1…

PLASMA ZAPS POLLUTION
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Pulsed corona discharge (that's plasma to you and me) can detoxify gaseous pollutants in the flue g…
From bulk to bag and back again
Added: 15 Jan 2000
In many process industries solids handling comes down to no more than moving bags of materi…

Elga's variation
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Water technology specialist Elga has launched an information service on the world wide web. The si…

America hold ports
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Chicago-based distribution giants GATX is selling six of its wholly owned terminals in the …

Beer we go
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Three Liquidata beer analysers from NDC Infrared are helping Whitbread make its blending pr…

Queen's Awards span crackers to crop protection
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Process companies were well represented among the winners of the Queen's Awards for Industr…

Belt UP!
Added: 15 Jan 2000
'If we're talking about belt weighers integrated with process control systems then the cont…

You play the game, you know the rules
Added: 15 Jan 2000
* The Electricity at Work Regulations 1989 impose a duty on employers and the self-employed…

RISKY business
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Imagine the situation. You learn that there has been a serious accident on the premises. Se…

Tales of the wily Foxboro
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Foxboro is to become the sole supplier of control systems for BASF's plants in the US, Canada and M…

Remote field controllers for Ethernet connections
Added: 15 Jan 2000
From Phoenix Contact come remote field controllers with Ethernet connection. Part of the co…

ENERGY EFFICIENCY the crucial factor
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Paul Greengrass shows how process companies can use the latest developments in gas-fired technology…
User-friendly Norgren
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Compressed air specialist IMI Norgren has upgraded its website to make it `really user-friendly', s…

Les voitures recyclables
Added: 15 Jan 2000
France's largest car makers are backing a scheme to recycle the PVC used in cars. The scheme, call…

Tyco takes control as valve market consolidates
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Following the recent merger with Keystone (see main text), the Flow Control group of Tyco I…