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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…

News in brief

Added: 15 Jan 2000

* The can can be harmful

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…