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Monitor meets food hygiene regs

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Food hygiene regulations require continual monitoring and logging of frozen foodstuffs at a…

Black & Veatch buys into Europe

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Following its recent acquisition from Thames Water of water and wastewater company PWT Proj…

BP Amoco funds multiphase labs

Added: 15 Jan 2000

A research facility dedicated to investigating multiphase fluid flow is the first fruits of…

Irish boil in bed

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Foster Wheeler has been awarded a £8million contract from ESB, the state utility of Ireland…

Pre-mixer solves sucking problems for powder

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Joshua Greaves claims that its design of Liquivac vacuum pump solves the problems occurring…

EA Systems flying high

Added: 15 Jan 2000

A further step along the road to easier data exchange for process designers has been taken …

BOC buys into semiconductors

Added: 15 Jan 2000

The BOC group is to buy Californian company Systems Chemistry as part of its commitment to expand i…

EUREKA! Britain's a success

Added: 15 Jan 2000

The British chairmanship of the EU collaborative research initiative, EUREKA, which finishe…

Spiroflow conveys onwards and upwards

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Spiroflow's novel continuous blending system, using rotating spiral conveyors, has cut out …

Waste blending plant opens

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Europe's first waste solidification and fixation (SAF) plant, operated by the waste treatment divis…

FLIXBOROUGH 25 years on

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Although it happened a quarter of a century ago this month, the Flixborough disaster remains one of…

ABB to buy Alfa Laval Automation

Added: 15 Jan 2000

ABB has announced the purchase of the Alfa Laval Automation (ALA) unit from Alfa Laval of S…

Sterling handles the pressure

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Sterling Fluid Systems (Enquiry Card 309) has introduced a new pitot-tube pump, offering maintenanc…

Walker makes a solid start

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Process and dry bulk solids equipment manufacturer Kemutec has appointed Nick Walker as sales and m…

System removes cross sensitivity

Added: 15 Jan 2000

To keep up with continuous emission monitoring (CEM) systems running low levels of pollutan…

Armagard's personal touch to protect industrial PCs

Added: 15 Jan 2000

PC enclosure manufacturer Armagard is offering free on-site surveys and product demonstrations to c…

ABB drives a good deal on paper

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Over £500 000 worth of ABB Industrial Systems' drives and control equipment has been ordered by Igg…

BOC on the brink as competitors combine

Added: 15 Jan 2000

It looks as though venerable British industrial gases group BOC could be close to losing it…

A very sticky business

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Handling chocolate is a sticky business. Invariably it melts at room temperature, usually i…

Is less science needed for tomorrow's technologists?

Added: 15 Jan 2000

The traditional classification of chemistry as a `hard science' is causing problems with ed…