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Europe's $28bn glass act rolls towards $34bn by 2003
Added: 15 Jan 2000
The European glass industry's need to compete with low-cost imports will lead to rationalis…
Time to fly the GREEN STANDARD
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Environmental management systems have not yet been embraced by industry with the same fervour that …SmithKline, and the science base, avoid an iceberg
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Time has a way of playing tricks on monthly magazines. In our last issue, we reported on a …
Picking up good vibrations
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Mike Caldwell has been appointed sales manager of Invicta Vibrators, the UK's largest maker of rota…
Jabsco goes global
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Pump manufacturer ITT Jabsco's website contains information on the company's range of indus…
ICI nets fibre solution
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Organisations in search of energy efficient solutions to thermal insulation challenges can …
Millennium goes for gas
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Domnick Hunter has been awarded a Millennium Products award for its Maxigas nitrogen gas generator.…
COST/CAPACITY RELATIONSHIPS from first principles: Part 1
Added: 15 Jan 2000
We often assume that a power law operates which is a good predictor of the capital cost of a proces…Powder feeder boosts plastic pipe production
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Many process engineers will specify plastic pipework for particular processes, but few migh…
MEMBRANES set to clean up
Added: 15 Jan 2000
As the costs of membranes come down, so their performance goes up. The result has been a boom in th…Putting the kernel in charge of PLC control
Added: 15 Jan 2000
According to Hayes Control Systems, with TwinCAT software it is possible to run PLC tasks on a stan…
Pop-Top filter
Added: 15 Jan 2000
The Pop-Top filter bag and cage from Hosokawa Micron is said to drastically reduce the time and cos…
Thanks for the PTFE memory
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Economos, together with its recently acquired company Merkel, have introduced what they say…
Safer, faster tube cleaning
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Developed by Tube Tech, the Pullman is a patented tube-bundle cleaning system that is said …
BP and Aspen unite to boost oil value by $1/2 per barrel
Added: 15 Jan 2000
BP Oil's refineries could soon be enjoying a boost in productivity thanks to a joint ventur…
Engineering: a brighter future for all concerned?
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Which company, if any, has taken over ICI's role as the bell-wether of the economy?Zeneca insists on its independence
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Recent merger fever in the world pharmaceuticals industry has failed to dent the determinat…
Visibility collars a new boss
Added: 15 Jan 2000
David Collar has been appointed president and chief executive of Visibility, an engineering-to-orde…
Leap Year of Faith
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Life as we know it will not come to an end but the Y2K problem will cause companies to sue or be su…New name and profile for W-M
Added: 15 Jan 2000
From the beginning of the year Watson-Marlow has taken on a new identity as Watson-Marlow B…
