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Critical solution to organic waste
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Swedish engineering company Chematur has acquired the rights to a waste water treatment tec…

Japanese boon time for UK mixer
Added: 15 Jan 2000
The innovative horizontal helical blade mixer (HHBM) from UK process plant specialist J R B…

CONTRACTS IN BRIEF
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Brotherhood's business boom Peterborough-based Peter Brotherhood, the compressor and turbin…

Unilever to hive off specialities
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Unilever has decided that it wants to be a consumer products group. The company's diverse …

MDC Technology
Added: 15 Jan 2000
MDC Technology has won its first major order for the PI (plant information) system from She…

More Moore at Didcot A
Added: 15 Jan 2000
At National Power's Didcot A power station, control system upgrades were needed for two of four bur…

Rospen's new pack fill
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Rospen Industries has launched a novel pack filling system which it claims could revolution…

Ethylene process set for launch
Added: 15 Jan 2000
A new process for converting excess acetylene from crackers into ethylene is about to be offered un…

Smart sensors for paper mills
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Nash-HTI is a new system for measuring the temperatures in the dryer sections of paper mach…

Vanton to boldly go into future
Added: 15 Jan 2000
The UK arm of plastics pumps producer Vanton Pumps has appointed 31-year-old Andrew Bould as chief …

Asian recovery `to boost pump sales'
Added: 15 Jan 2000
The worldwide market for pumps will top $22billion in 2003 thanks to an expected recovery i…

001 - licensed for safe operation
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Spirax Sarco's new SV5 safety valve has been awarded the first certificate - numbered 001 -…

Foster Wheeler Energy
Added: 15 Jan 2000
No, Foster Wheeler Energy construction operations director Mike Beaumont isn't taking up fencing. …

Cheaper cuts from a compact catalyst
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Volatile organic compound (VOC) emissions are one of the biggest bugbears for the chemical …

The big bang
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Steel plate with a thin layer of explosion-bonded corrosion resistant alloy or metal provid…

Smart pressure from mbar to bar
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Druck's latest STX 2000 `smart' Hart-compatible pressure transmitter offers ranges from 70m…

The laser's hot for burning
Added: 15 Jan 2000
It's rather ironic, but waste disposal is one of the largest producers of industrial emissi…

Power fluidics SCRUBS PARTICULATES
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Increasingly, the process industries, and notably the pharmaceuticals industries, are adopt…

New team at the top for Glaxo
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Richard Sykes, chief executive and deputy chairman of pharmaceuticals giant Glaxo Wellcome, is to s…

Ion charges in - positively
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Nobel Systems has appointed Malcolm Ion as sales engineer for its process weighing division, coveri…