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Britain still lags behind in research

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Research spending in the UK has increased over the past five years - but British companies …

Guidelines on COMAH updated

Added: 15 Jan 2000

The Health and Safety Executive has published two guidance documents for the new Control of…

Self-cleaning strainer

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Plenty Filters has introduced a new compact range of self-cleaning, backflushing strainers.…

Biwater builds tertiary plant

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Biwater Treatment is building a tertiary biological aerated flooded filter (BAFF) nitrifica…

Variable speed controller cuts steam costs

Added: 15 Jan 2000

A new boiler control system from Meggitt Mobrey's Bestobell Service is claimed to reduce ru…

Ciba invites polymers bids

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Ciba Specialties is seeking a buyer for its performance polymers business, which is the mar…

EXPANDING and contracting

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Times are tough for process contractors. The current cyclical downturn in the petrochemical industr…

Honeywell consolidates software solutions to form new business

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Honeywell is forming a business that aims to boost profits, improve performance, reduce los…

Hodgson's choice: SSP rotary lobes

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Positive transfer of high viscosity media at up to 200 degrees C characterises the range of…

High-speed sponges clean waste

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Cleaning up contaminated equipment is a major headache for many industries, but it's partic…

CONTRACTS

Added: 15 Jan 2000

£55m investment programme

KELLOGG SERVES Eggar for breakfast

Added: 15 Jan 2000

At MW Kellogg's recent Refinery Conference, chairman Tim Eggar detailed the drastic changes in refi…

Mass market opens for CORIOLIS METERS

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Renowned for their accuracy, if not their initially high cost, mass flowmeters based on the Corioli…

Money for old Reliants?

Added: 15 Jan 2000

The government has launched a new scheme to boost the amount of material recovered from old cars fr…

BASF awaits upswing

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Half-year profits at BASF slumped by over a third, to E932million, as the company took a E2…

AEA to assess Russian reactors

Added: 15 Jan 2000

AEA Technology is to lead a project to asess the safety of Russian nuclear reactors. A cons…

Crane overhalls relief valve on alkylation unit

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Helping to keep Conoco's Humber Refinery (above) running round the clock is Crane Engineering Servi…

Jacob Dirks receives prize for work on pumps

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Hard work: Grundfos engineer Jacob Dirks, right, receives the Titanium Prize from the Titanium Info…

CIA says voluntary energy agreements are `under consideration'

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Introducing the performance survey, Jim Whiston, ICI Group's SHE manager and chairman of the Respon…

BOC seals 20 year contract

Added: 15 Jan 2000

BOC Gases will supply oxygen to Polish copper producer Huta Miedzi Glogo's refining complex…