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High pressure spikes resisted

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Status Instruments has produced a standard homogeniser fitting that works with its PTX21 pr…

To Saudi health

Added: 15 Jan 2000

PCI-Memtech has completed the mechanical installation of a £1million hygienic production pl…

Moving all the ink that's fit to print

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Trouble-free transfer of a variety of screen printing ink products was what Sericol was loo…

Procedair proceeding well

Added: 15 Jan 2000

The Procedair Division of Stein Atkinson Stordy has recently won two major orders to supply polluti…

Faraday four are launched

Added: 15 Jan 2000

The first four pilot Faraday Partnerships, which will focus on improving industry links wit…

Firms commit

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Novartis Pharmaceuticals, National Instruments, and Tyco Valves and Controls have pledged their all…

Equipment costs (14): COLUMN TRAYS AND PLATES

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Always hidden from view, column internals nevertheless loom large in the economics of distillation

Give your plant a heart-to-HART

Added: 15 Jan 2000

With its Smart Adviser, Peek Measurement says you can now unlock the full potential of any …

BASF expands oxo chemicals

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Capacities for propylene oxide and propylene glycol at BASF's Ludwigshafen plant are set to…

A free map for the fieldbus maze

Added: 15 Jan 2000

The road to that Holy Grail of control and instrumentation engineers one internationally ac…

Paper industry says climate levy is `rip-off government'

Added: 15 Jan 2000

The Paper Federation of Great Britain has demanded a total exemption from the proposed clim…

Solutions centre opens

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Last month Rockwell Automation opened the doors to its new Automatic Solutions Centre at th…

Putting a better face on control

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Siemens Automation has extended its range of human machine interfaces (HMIs) with the addit…

No more core for filter elements

Added: 15 Jan 2000

After extensive research into ways to reduce the costs of high-flow filtration applications…

SCADAs open up

Added: 15 Jan 2000

The SCADA systems equipment market is experiencing a driving force that is not necessarily …

Unilever cleans up its portfolio

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Unilever is to stop producing 1600 of its brand-name items, focusing instead on 400 core br…

DTI is SMART

Added: 15 Jan 2000

The DTI has launched three new schemes under the SMART initiative to help small businesses …

News in Brief

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Air Products' vinyl contract...

Air Products is to build an air separation unit at R…

Processing power, or people power?

Added: 15 Jan 2000

As this month's front cover graphically illustrates, our main theme for this issue is `Comp…

`Til the cows come home

Added: 15 Jan 2000

The search for a clean form of power generation is never-ending. Farmers in north Devon are…