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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…

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…