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Welcome to the wonderful world of engineering
Added: 15 Jan 2000
For the third year running, the UK chemical industry has recruited more first degree gradua…

Indonesian tiger is set to roar
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Indonesia has long been touted as one of the chemical industry's growth areas, and now the …

Plastics giants turn to clay for composites
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Polyolefins giant Montell and polyester specialist Eastman have both tuned into clay resear…

Draeger 'chips' check emissions
Added: 15 Jan 2000
The novel Chip Measurement System (CMS) from Draeger promises to make reliable spot measure…

ICI alters image
Added: 15 Jan 2000
ICI has redesigned its internet site and added a search engine to help users navigate aroun…

Water in Wells
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Birse Construction has landed contracts worth £12 million for sewage treatment works in Tunbridge W…

ICI sells Wilton assets for £300m
Added: 15 Jan 2000
ICI has sold the infrastructure of its Wilton site to US energy firm Enron for £300million,…

Luck helped mitigate Texaco fire
Added: 15 Jan 2000
A catalogue of errors that led to a massive explosion and fire at Texaco's refinery in Pemb…

Send for an EXPERT
Added: 15 Jan 2000
From nuclear fuel to bulk petrochemicals, expert systems are becoming more widespread in the proces…
Under new MANAGEMENT
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Hydro Polymers was the guinea pig for a multinational implementation of SAP's R/3 management system…
Intelligent elements form backbone of Visio 2000
Added: 15 Jan 2000
The technical edition of Visio 2000, the diagramming and drawing software package, is now a…

Blackfive's portables point the way
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Blackfive Engineering has extended its range of safety rodding tools with a portable set. T…

Valve provides millilitre control
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Fisher Controls has entered the specialty low flow segment of the control valve market (bel…

Windmill's communication tools save time
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Windmill Software's IML Tools package allows engineers to communicate with data acquisition…

Flexibility for the regulated
Added: 15 Jan 2000
In a new brochure Moore Process Automation Solutions turns its attention to process solutio…

Valve safety is boosted
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Offshore safety is compromised by the low usage of coded key interlocking systems in proces…

BP Amoco leans towards tradeable emission permits
Added: 15 Jan 2000
In a significant deviation from the oil and chemical industries' usual line, the president …

Triple sure just to be sure
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Pilz is offering a comprehensive range of programmable safety systems which the company cla…

Plenty of mixer impellers
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Plenty's association with Philadelphia Mixers has allowed it to expand its range of mixer i…

PREDICT INDICES UP-DATE
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Concluding our monthly presentation of the PREDICT UK and international plant cost indices …