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Strong pound sends UK chemicals output tumbling

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Chemicals output in the UK slipped by 0.6 per cent in 1997, despite a 4 per cent rise in wo…

Multivariable transmitters get smarter and smarter

Added: 15 Jan 2000

New models in Honeywell's SMV 3000 range of smart multivariable transmitters now enable flo…

First footing for Fieldbus at last

Added: 15 Jan 2000

In what is claimed as the world's first commercial application of products conforming to th…

WATERwise

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Capital's sales and marketing director Frank Tomlinson explains: 'studies have shown that in some c…

It's just a PHASE

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Stuart Nathan visits the National Engineering Laboratory's multiphase flow centre, where meters and…

Threat of gas blasts minimised

Added: 15 Jan 2000

There has been speculation that the infamous explosions at Flixborough and La Spieza were a…

Westinghouse heads for F-R

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Emerson Electric, the US parent company of Fisher-Rosemount, has paid $265 million for West…

Looks like a million dollars

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Well, that's the value of this hydrogen gas purification system shipped to the Petromin lubricating…

Multivariable monitoring

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Aspen Multivariate, an application within Aspen Technology's InfoPlus.21 process informatio…

New LIMS

Added: 15 Jan 2000

The increasing demand for LIMS systems has led laboratory information specialist LabSystems…

Fitting service from Fileder ensures regular R/O supplies

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Users of reverse osmosis water purification systems could benefit from a new `supply and fi…

All-in-one processing units

Added: 15 Jan 2000

`The processing unit of the future.' That's what Fryma-Maschinen calls its Frymix system, t…

Peristaltics squeeze the gap between lab and plant markets

Added: 15 Jan 2000

The dividing lines between the traditional markets for peristaltic pumps laboratories, mete…

AEA package `can save $1million/day'

Added: 15 Jan 2000

A system that helps chemical and pharmaceutical companies advance their products to market …

CO2 neutralises basic instincts

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Alkaline process and wastewater has traditionally been neutralised by strong mineral acids. But the…

Slippery business

Added: 15 Jan 2000

DuPont is planning a $40million development and manufacturing plant for Teflon fluoro-polym…

No leak under pressure

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Bran + Luebbe (B+L) has launched Novaplex (EC 310), a modular high pressure pump capable of powerin…

Hygienic pump cleans up

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Jabsco has introduced the Hy-Line series of hygienic rotary pumps that conform to all new h…

Catalyst libraries take the strain

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Choosing a catalyst for a process can be frustrating. Theory tells industrial chemists whic…

EPSRC opts for continuity

Added: 15 Jan 2000

The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council has re-appointed Courtaulds' research direct…