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Green journal is world's first

Added: 15 Jan 2000

The Royal Society of Chemistry has launched its Green Chemistry Network (GCN) to promote aw…

Water watchdog gets new teeth

Added: 15 Jan 2000

The New Year has seen a government agency derided as a toothless watchdog suddenly acquire …

Firm control for batching and mixing of GR-concrete

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Nobel Systems has supplied several batch weighing systems to Power-Sprays who manufacture s…

Philips and Bechtel link in gas

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Philips Petroleum has formed an alliance with contractor Bechtel to improve both firms' positions i…

Acetyls slump threatens projects

Added: 15 Jan 2000

The world acetyls market is facing a slump fed by serious over capacity, according to a new…

EPSRC redefines `simpler' engineering sectors

Added: 15 Jan 2000

The blurring of boundaries between different engineering disciplines has led to a rethink o…

KEEPING IT CLEAN by better design

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Although well established in the food industry, hygienic pumps require new levels of cleanliness wh…

Foster Wheeler's successful stab at total safety

Added: 15 Jan 2000

It may seem odd to honour the world's safest companies by giving them an offensive weapon, …

Birds Eye weighs chicken products

Added: 15 Jan 2000

For processing its chicken products, Birds Eye Wall's (BEW) chose Nobel's KIS load cell.

Pumps shift foodstuffs

Added: 15 Jan 2000

A new range of hopper-fed, positive displacement pumps from Allweiler can be used to transf…

Slugs help to clear bacteria-blocked filters

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Bioreactors are the focus of intense interest in several process spheres at the moment, par…

Brazen HE has no gaskets

Added: 15 Jan 2000

The latest addition to Alfa Laval Thermal's growing range of nickel brazed heat exchangers,…

Info for Gambica seekers

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Gambica, the association for the UK's instrumentation, control and automation industry, has…

Plantworld sends data and designs globally

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Rebis, the PC plant design solutions supplier based in California, has launched a comprehen…

Versatile mixer turns no corners

Added: 15 Jan 2000

The Franklin Miller PCM is a pipe-mounted unit which mixes, homogenises, emulsifies and ble…

All change for process lines

Added: 15 Jan 2000

The new year has heralded more than the usual number of name changes among process supplier…

ARBITRATION and alternatives

Added: 15 Jan 2000

We have in the past made various comments on these pages on contractual matters (see Refere…

Compressor matches consumption to demand

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Shanks Chemical Services disposes of hazardous and toxic materials using a high temperature…

MIXING takes a spin

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Dissolving certain materials efficiently has long posed problems for foods, cosmetics and pharmaceu…

What's on at Watson-Marlow?

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Watson-Marlow's web site contains more than 60 pages of information for those seeking pump …