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Z-blade extruder meets challenge

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Winkworth Machinery recently produced its largest Z-blade extruder mixer in response to a challenge…

CIM 97 EXHIBITION pushes process

Added: 15 Jan 2000

This year's Computers in Manufacturing exhibition, CIM 97, has broadened its scope to take in more …

THE DRIVE to a better standard

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Much has been said, and written, in recent years about the advantages of powering process m…

EPSRC launches £6M water research project

Added: 15 Jan 2000

To improve the standards of Britain's hard-pressed water industry, the Engineering and Phys…

Brum's supercritical extraction breakthroughs

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Since the early 1970s researchers at Birmingham have been investigating supercritical fluid…

Moore Products' net benefits

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Real control of industrial processes through the Internet is still a long way off, but Moore Produc…

New cracker, but slimmed-down catalysts for BASF

Added: 15 Jan 2000

BASF is to build a new steam cracker in the Gulf Coast region of the US. The unit will alm…

Delkor introduces pilot filter

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Delkor's new `pilot scale' filter will allow companies to carry out laboratory tests on mat…

BOC builds 'the world's largest' nitrogen plant

Added: 15 Jan 2000

BOC is to build the largest nitrogen complex in the world in Mexico, to supply the gas to t…

Asia's growing pains

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Key meetings on the prospects of chemicals industries worldwide have reiterated the pitfalls of osc…

Feedstock atomiser design based on aero engine

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Aero & Industrial Technology (AIT) has employed aero engine technology to design and manufa…

Plant cost data for budgeting

Added: 15 Jan 2000

We have recently received the following letter from Dr VV Mahajani of Bombay University:

Hand-in-hand DMM and calibrator

Added: 15 Jan 2000

The Fluke 787 ProcessMeter is a combination of a digital multimeter (DMM) and a loop calibr…

Rewards for researchers

Added: 15 Jan 2000

A family of fungicides, an enzyme-catalysed asymmetric synthesis and a powder moulding proc…

A saving stitch in time and energy

Added: 15 Jan 2000

In a very energy- and labour-intensive operation, thread was previously wound on to a forme…

News in Brief

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Courtaulds gets protective

Composting of brewery waste

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Stuart Guy and Andrew Barker are researching the accelerated composting of brewery waste us…

Control of ingredients wet or dry

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Esteve's range of ingredients control and handling systems, for solids and liquids, is avai…

Zeneca shells out $500 million on Japanese fungicides company

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Zeneca has strengthened its commitment to non-pharmaceutical products by spending $500 mill…

Compact industrial computers

Added: 15 Jan 2000

With its new Pipanel range of industrial computers, Pilz claims to have taken a major step …