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Siemens' £5million digestion aid
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Siemens Industrial Projects & Systems has been awarded the £5million contract to act as main contra…

Sandvik steel makes the grade
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Demand is increasing for tubing made from nitric acid-resistant grade stainless steel, acco…

ABB sets out its stall with Pavilion
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Under the terms of a strategic technology and sales alliance between the two companies, ABB…

Integrated hard and software
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Aimed at reducing system life-cycle costs, Controlstar from Calcam Control Systems is a fam…

Norse saga
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Norsk Hydro has bought Norway's third-largest oil company, Saga Petroleum, for $2.6billion.…

Temperature on the right rails
Added: 15 Jan 2000
With a choice of three IP66 sensors, Ircon's InfraRail non-contact temperature measuring sy…

BASF proves new nylon technology
Added: 15 Jan 2000
BASF's new technology to produce the nylon intermediate caprolactam has passed a major hurd…

BizTalk gains supporters
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Microsoft's BizTalk system, a framework for e-commerce, is gathering support among software…

Magnetic, sealless and quiet
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Etaseco from KSB is part of a new expanding range of canned motor and magnetic sealless pumps. The …

Labour powers up
Added: 15 Jan 2000
The government has authorised the building of a 1200MW power station at Saltend near Hull, …

Current events break for chemical synthesis
Added: 15 Jan 2000
The saying goes that it's easier to destroy than to create, and that's certainly true of el…

MINIATURE marvels
Added: 15 Jan 2000
It happened to the electrical industry in the 1950's, it's happening to the chemical indust…

Proximity sensors take over from electromechanical
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Designed to replace the electromechanical position sensing switches on rising-stem valves, …

Sterling work
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Celebrating a centenary of tubemaking by former companies, Sterling Tubes - now part of the Sandvik…

Moving story of a refinery
Added: 15 Jan 2000
German contractor Krupp Uhde is set to move a refinery from Germany to India, the first suc…

Beer we go, beer we go, beer we go
Added: 15 Jan 2000
After seventeen customer complaints, Bass Brewers traced foul tasting beer to a faulty cool…

Tetra Pak tastes the exotic
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Rubicon, who until now out-sourced the packaging of its guava, mango and other exotic fruit…

Super stainless shows savings for Statoil
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Super duplex stainless steel tubing from Sandvik Steel is set to solve an environmental pro…

Dow Chemicals takes microwaves from the kitchen to the chlorinators
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Microwave ovens may be the best thing since sliced bread in the kitchen - especially for hu…