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'It's the chromatography, stupid'

Added: 15 Jan 2000

That was a typically forthright American response Glaxo Wellcome's Dave Smith gave to LabSystems wh…

Fitted and forgotten

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Installed two years ago on a sewage treatment line, an Ultraflux UF322 ultrasonic clamp-on …

Vacuum aids solid blends

Added: 15 Jan 2000

For many years, mixing and blending specialist Joshua Greaves has been aware of the problem…

Bugs beat polyester pollution

Added: 15 Jan 2000

A new process developed by Japanese fibres producer Toray Industries uses a microbial proce…

Telford tales

Added: 15 Jan 2000

As mentioned elsewhere on the page, last month Telford in Shropshire, played host to the Dr…

New compact mixer

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Berkshire-based Winkworth Machinery (316) is featuring a new heavy duty, jacketed, vacuum, …

Eastman equipment

Added: 15 Jan 2000

This Eastman polyethylene terephthalate plant is to be the recipient of £3million-worth of …

People - contractors

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Refinery post for Phillips

Process control rests in safe hands

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Safety system products for process plant protection are a major feature of the Hima-Sella (…

Ferry quay fate for Brent Spar

Added: 15 Jan 2000

It's been an oil storage buoy; it's been a cause celebre for industry and environmentalists…

BP Amoco heads for world domination with Arco

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Yet another merger - worth some £17billion - makes BP Amoco the world's largest non-state oil produ…

BP to boost oil and gas output

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Two major oil and gas discoveries will help BP to increase its output by 5 per cent per yea…

The six million DM pig - not bionic, but ultrasonic

Added: 15 Jan 2000

A new generation of on-line inspection tools for oil and gas pipelines can detect the sligh…

Independent Interbus

Added: 15 Jan 2000

For independence from manufacturer-specific control hardware and software Phoenix Contact o…

Morton Machine models mixer melange

Added: 15 Jan 2000

With a history dating back to 1859, Morton Machine Company has an established reputation fo…

Complete dose systems

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Michael Smith Engineers manufactures a wide range of dosing pumps and accessories suitable …

Bearings with magnetic compressor attraction

Added: 15 Jan 2000

York International claims to have moved the process gas compression industry into a new era…

One stop and all your fieldbus questions will be answered

Added: 15 Jan 2000

A consortium of Fieldbus Foundation (enter 320 on enquiry card) members are featured in the…

Calex cuts sensor costs

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Calex is continuing its drive to match non-contact thermometer prices with contact prices, …

An open and shut case for valves, or a little bit extra?

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Normally a function of a valve is simply to open or close a line to the flow of fluid. With…