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UK opening for ICI/Mitsubishi recycling technology
Added: 15 Jan 2000
ICI and Mitsubishi have chosen a UKsite for the first plant to test out their technology fo…

Weir wins orders far and wide
Added: 15 Jan 2000
The wide-ranging Weir Group continues to pick up contracts from around the world. Some £6.5million…

BASF and FINA crack it in Texas
Added: 15 Jan 2000
The vogue for mammoth plant building (see pages 7 & 9)appears to be worldwide. In Port Arth…

No more N2O? BASF's laughing
Added: 15 Jan 2000
BASF has completed trials of a new process to remove nitrous oxide laughing gas from the of…

Membrane cuts hydrogen waste
Added: 15 Jan 2000
A rugged polymeric gas separation membrane could help expand the use of industrial separati…

BP-BASF effort
Added: 15 Jan 2000
BP Amoco and BASF are commissioning a 9,000tpa acetonitrile purification plant at Seal Sand…

KCC to cater for process industries
Added: 15 Jan 2000
KCC, supplier to the oil and gas industry, has bought its Suffolk-based long-term sub contr…

Safety reports by e-mail
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Inspection company Plant Safety, based in Manchester, has launched a novel series of electr…

EAT can 'virtually eliminate' sludge
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Energy consultancy EA Technology has been granted patent rights for a new sewage treatment …

Landfill power to fill energy gap
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Use of landfill gases as a fuel for power generation has been so successful that energy min…

Micro PLC bridges the gap to process control
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Mitsubishi Electric's 'next generation' of micro PLCs, the FX2N, features powerful, dedicat…

Process firms prosper in manufacturing awards
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Processing equipment suppliers featured prominently at last month's presentation ceremony i…

Ibn Zahr complex installs PRAMS
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Marex Technology - part of the Yokogawa group of companies - will soon complete the install…

UK AND INTERNATIONAL PLANT COST INDICES
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Process Engineering's PREDICT plant cost index for the UK is made up of five components cov…

BP rewards its own innovators
Added: 15 Jan 2000
BP Chemicals has named the winners of its 1996 in-house Awards for Innovation. The company…

Extra boost for reverse jet filter
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Dust extraction specialist Airmaster Engineering has introduced an improved version of its …

Omron cures control
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Dew Valley Foods, producer of pre-cooked bacon to the catering industry, needed a high-spee…

Rubber irradiation process can stretch to many other industries
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Now coming up to two years' successful operation, the world's first continuous processing p…

APV to close two sites
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Following its acquisition by Siebe last year, APV has embarked on a group-wide programme ai…
