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Added: 15 Jan 2000

* The cost of life science

AHP's merger hopes are dashed

Added: 15 Jan 2000

For the second time, American Home Products has failed to secure a merger with another life…

Potash pump

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Cleveland Potash is hoping for a payback of less than 6 months following the retrofit of a …

Microkut is in a class of its own

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Classification below 3 micro m is possible with Hosokawa MikroPul's new Microkut classifier, accord…

GM opposition bears fruit

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Monsanto has caved in to political and public pressure and agreed not to commercialise tech…

Multi-phase meters make gas drilling safer

Added: 15 Jan 2000

High pressure, high temperature (HP/HT) fields in the Central Graben region of North Sea 15…

Earth-Rite dispels static concerns

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Build-up of electrostaic charge during the filling and emptying of FIBCs is a major concern…

ICI pulls out of Teesside solids

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Imperial Chemicals Industries is stopping production of solid reagent chemicals on Teesside…

Fisher-Rosemount to supply ICI

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Fisher-Rosemount has agreed to supply, service and support ICI Polyurethanes for the development an…

Simulation enters the real world

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Imperial College's renowned Centre for Process Systems Engineering (see PE, April 1997, p27…

United Nations calls for massive consumption cuts

Added: 15 Jan 2000

The United Nations has declared a state of `environmental crisis' and urged the industrialised nati…

Try out your membranes first

Added: 15 Jan 2000

As part of a one-day comparative process evaluation service, Memtech (UK) will let you try …

Laser enrichment reduces atomic costs

Added: 15 Jan 2000

The United States Enrichment Corporation is looking for a site to put its uranium enrichmen…

Hot stuff

Added: 15 Jan 2000

A plate heat exchanger from GEA Ecoflex represents a major development in heat exchanger te…

News in brief

Added: 15 Jan 2000

* Amec processes go great guns

Orimulsion for Pembroke scrapped

Added: 15 Jan 2000

National Power has scrapped its plans to burn the bitumen-based oil substitute Orimulsion a…

The timetable

Added: 15 Jan 2000

The EC Pressure Equipment Directive was adopted by the European Parliament and the Council …

Controlling the spray drying of ceramics

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Working in partnership with the Spanish Ceramics Institute, Infrared Engineering has develo…

Compact gas chromatograph is suited for real-time control

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Gas chromatographs are bulky, slow, complicated and can't be set up or maintained without a…

Miniatures suit all buses

Added: 15 Jan 2000

MTE Turck has developed a generation of miniature fieldbus connection modules to fit inside…