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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…

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 …