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Listen to the temperature
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Codel International is introducing PyroSonic II, an acoustic pyrometer, to its range of com…

BP Amoco deal
Added: 15 Jan 2000
BP Amoco's Grangemouth petrochemicals complex has signed an agreement with ABB Automation's drives …
Zeolite sieve can dry continuously
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Christison Scientific Equipment, based in Gateshead, has announced the introduction of a no…

Doppler radar measures both speed and depth
Added: 15 Jan 2000
An open channel flow meter from Flowline called Flo-Dar is a non contact sensor which measu…

Made-to-order polymers attract interest
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Chemists at the University of Warwick have collaborated to do something that nature does as…

Kvaerner to sell thermal power
Added: 15 Jan 2000
General Electric is to buy Kvaerner's thermal power generation activities for an undisclose…

`Ozone-eaters' rules to tighten up
Added: 15 Jan 2000
The signatories to the Montreal Protocol - the international agreement controlling trade an…

DATA SECURITY @ the heart of business
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Information is the lifeblood of business. Any breach in the IT network can be disastrous, so your i…
John Brown bids farewell
Added: 15 Jan 2000
After last year's disappearance of the name Davy from the process plant scene (see PE, Marc…

From the West out to the East
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Bristol-based Delkor has recently commissioned the first of two horizontal vacuum belt filt…

Gas analyser cuts cement downtime
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Quick-setting cement manufacturer Lafarge Aluminates, based at Fos-sur-Mer near Marseilles,…

Flowserve's German buy
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Dallas-based Flowserve is to acquire Honeywell's industrial control valve and related produ…

Applied takes on Mantracourt
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Load cell supplier Applied Measurements has become the UK-approved distributor of Mantracou…

Precision gauge protects pumps
Added: 15 Jan 2000
A range of high accuracy bourdon tube contact pressure gauges is being introduced by Gemlog…

Courtaulds profits hit by strong pound
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Courtaulds' interim results for the six months to September show a modest improvement in op…

Complete process plants (5): ALUMINIUM PRODUCTION
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Costimator this month returns to the series on budget estimates for complete process plants, rather…
Hygienic filters in a basket
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Airpel Filtration's range of hygienic basket filters are aimed at the food, beverage, pharm…

Where there's muck there's gas
Added: 15 Jan 2000
German company Schwarting-Uhde teamed up with the Stuttgart-based Fraunhofer Institute for …

Phillips Petroleum sign 15-year contract with National Power Cogen
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Phillips Petroleum has signed a 15-year contract with National Power Cogen to buy electricity from …