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Island waste to produce energy
Added: 15 Jan 2000
West Midlands-based Birwelco has been awarded a £9 million contract for the engineering, procuremen…

Kuebler can do
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Level sensing, measuring and control systems supplier KSR Kuebler believes its website will simplif…

COST/CAPACITY RELATIONSHIPS from first principles: Part 2
Added: 15 Jan 2000
In Part 1 of this feature (page 16, March 1998), we found that E the exponent in the cost s…

Integration differentiates UMIST projects
Added: 15 Jan 2000
In 1993 UMIST established a dedicated process integration department, described by its dire…

RISK MANAGEMENT lessons from the past
Added: 15 Jan 2000
A generation on from Flixborough, what lessons can still be learnt from an event that provided the …
Membrane is the key to cheap, and green, solvents
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Researchers at a US government-funded laboratory have developed a new method for making an …

Shh, peaceful pumps
Added: 15 Jan 2000
To meet the increasing demand for smaller, quieter pumps, Charles Austen Pumps is introduci…

EAT offers menu of a PhD, training and work experience
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Postgraduate Training Partnership company EA Technology (EATL), based between Chester and L…

Sandvik shows off its pastillation prowess
Added: 15 Jan 2000
On stand F2/G5 in Hall 4, Sandvik Process Systems is demonstrating enhancements to its well…

British electricity market opens up
Added: 15 Jan 2000
All 26million electricity users in the UK - industrial, commercial and domestic - now have …

TotalPlant totals even more
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Honeywell has received an order of nearly £200 000 from Foster Wheeler Energy for additional contro…

Taking the open standards approach
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Led by the offshore sector, the process industries have been establishing open standards un…

Resin to be cheerful
Added: 15 Jan 2000
KCH Keramchemie has introduced a two-coat resin based coating system, Ceilcote 387 Hybricot…

Eutech to expand BP's Topnir for process sector
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Cheshire-based Eutech is to handle BP Amoco's Topnir technology licensing business and expa…

Kvaerner John Brown is safe
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Contractor Kvaerner John Brown has scooped a basket of awards at the Royal Society for the …

Courtaulds counts on Shanley
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Courtaulds has named Patrick Shanley as finance director, replacing Howard Evans, who is leaving th…

Asset integrity savings targeted
Added: 15 Jan 2000
The corrosion consultancy CAPCIS believes savings of up to 50 per cent in asset integrity m…

Italian acquisition
Added: 15 Jan 2000
A major European manufacturer of pneumatic and hydraulic valve actuation equipment Fluid Sy…

Universal hand interlock
Added: 15 Jan 2000
The GL-U valve interlock from Smith Flow Control has a novel mounting mechanism that allows…