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Borealis engineers strong results
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Strong margins and high production levels helped Nordic polyethylene giant Borealis boost i…
SAFE CONTROL of critical systems
Added: 15 Jan 2000
With the operation of major process sites soon to come under the new COMAH regulations, Jon Keswick…UK Robin acquired in Fluke buy
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Electronic testing tool maker Fluke Europe has bought Robin Electronics, a supplier of elec…
Cells smooth power path
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Power stations could be designed and run more efficiently thanks to energy storage technolo…
Software package
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Design software house HTFS, part of AEA Technology, is launching a design package for calcu…
Engineer MP calls for status and funds
Added: 15 Jan 2000
It's a true rarity for Westminster - not only an MP willing to speak out on science and tec…
UK AND INTERNATIONAL PLANT COST INDICES
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Process Engineering's PREDICT plant cost index for the UK is made up of five components cov…
ETHERNET for Scada?
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Ethernet networking is a key enabling technology for manufacturing companies targeting shopfloor-to…Chem Eng tops UK salary league
Added: 15 Jan 2000
If you want to make money in engineering, make sure you're in the process sector. Chemical …
The sweet smell of success
Added: 15 Jan 2000
As job descriptions go, it isn't to be sniffed at. A panel of professional sniffers, at the…
Level switching inside and out
Added: 15 Jan 2000
The LS-7 range of level switches from Gems Sensors now includes internally and externally m…
Vortex captured to match output with varying inflow
Added: 15 Jan 2000
A patented method of automatically adjusting pump output to varying inflow without the use …
Trouble at Tioxide
Added: 15 Jan 2000
ICI's environmental woes continue; a plant operated by its Tioxide subsidiary at Greatham, …
BP Amoco shuffles styrenics as shareholders approve merger
Added: 15 Jan 2000
The closure of BP Amoco's Baglan Bay styrene plant is the price the company has chosen to p…
Show Briefs
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Last month's C&I '99 and Process Engineering '99 exhibitions attracted considerable interes…
Rosemount improves
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Fisher-Rosemount claims that improvements to its model 3051 digital pressure transmitter al…
Fieldbus lays firmer foundations
Added: 15 Jan 2000
While the seemingly never-ending arguments about fieldbus standardisation surface once agai…
Intelligent components provide room for improvement
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Compressor control isn't the only way to minimise pressure losses. Siebe subsidiary Compair…
Anti-corrosion coating for exchanger coils
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Since SPC gained the UK licence of a powerful anti-corrosion coating from Holland, the comp…
Take care - the future of the industry is at stake
Added: 15 Jan 2000
It's June, and across the country, sixth-formers are sitting the 'A'- levels which will dec…
