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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…

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…