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Albright & Wilson falls to French `bid vehicle'
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Rhodia has won the bidding war to control British inorganic chemicals specialist Albright &…

Battle champions Britain's scientific R&D programme
Added: 15 Jan 2000
In an impassioned address at the House of Commons, John Battle the new Minister for Science…

All change again
Added: 15 Jan 2000
After decades as one of the world's leading heavy chemicals manufacturers, ICI has spent £5billion …
Partners in pipelines
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Two of the leading players in the fields of natural gas process plant and pipeline simulati…

New website for Crouzet
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Two languages, one range: the new website for control products manufacturer Crouzet is available in…

Recognising innovation, rewarding excellence
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Once every three years, the world of process and chemical engineering decamps to Frankfurt …

Management systems fly the standard
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Environmental management systems are increasingly becoming rooted in process companies. ET …

Improving reliability
Added: 15 Jan 2000
`Reliability-centred maintenance' (RCM) enhancements to Marcam Solutions' Avantis.XA enterp…

UK INDICES four-year review
Added: 15 Jan 2000
This month we present our annual graphical review of the UK plant cost indices and the perf…

Close-coupled pump useful in tight spaces
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Ingersoll-Dresser Pumps has developed a close-coupled version of the CPX chemical process p…

Alfa Laval's positive R&D position
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Part of a £5.3million investment programme, Alfa Laval Pump's new R&D centre in Eastbourne …

New names, old faces
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Two newly named companies put in their first appearances at C&I, although many visitors wou…

Measuring through thick and thin
Added: 15 Jan 2000
At its Londonderry plant in Northern Ireland DuPont (UK) manufactures the well-known synthe…

P&ID development gets smarter for `life-cycle' use
Added: 15 Jan 2000
With Intergraph's SmartPlant P&ID software package process and instrument engineers can cre…

KDG Mobrey for the mob
Added: 15 Jan 2000
KDG Mobrey's website offers a resource for process engineers. Visitors can explore the comp…

Evergreen's magic touch makes carpets 'immortal'
Added: 15 Jan 2000
AlliedSignal and DSM have started work on a new joint venture project to turn nylon-6 carpe…

NEL will tackle pump, heating and fan problems
Added: 15 Jan 2000
One of the UK's leading R&D organisations, the National Engineering Laboratory, is seeking …

Protection for pumps and pipes
Added: 15 Jan 2000
On stand R13 in Hall 10.2, BTR Fluoroline is showing Ardua corrosion-resistant pumps and as…

Weir expands by buying Entropie
Added: 15 Jan 2000
The Glasgow-based Weir Group has bought the privately-owned French company Entropie for £6.…

Pretreatment process puts heat on sludge disposal
Added: 15 Jan 2000
A joint venture between sludge dewatering specialists Simon-Hartley and Norwegian thermal e…