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Shake, rattle and Rolos

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Of all the fluids handled in the process industries, chocolate is one of the most awkward. …

Lab-Plant offers complete scale-up equipment range

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Stand N1 holds a selection of Lab-Plant's scale-up equipment range. This includes a Heidolp…

Prominence in water analysing systems

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Celebrating 21 years of supplying equipment to the water industry, ProMinent Fluid Controls…

Rolling out BESPOKE BENEFITS

Added: 15 Jan 2000

When a company is prepared to invest around £300 000 on a process temperature control syste…

Power to your PROCESS

Added: 15 Jan 2000

When a drive shaft broke on a 30-year-old generator, upgrading costs of £1.3million were a little h…

'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…