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Quest's garden for the blind
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Sight unseen: ICI's flavours and fragrances subisidary, Quest International, teamed up with the Act…BP Amoco sells Wilton cracker stake to HICI
Added: 15 Jan 2000
The olefins cracker at Wilton, Teesside - for years the subject of wrangles between its joi…
DuPont snaps up polyester and Tioxide businesses from `reshaped' ICI
Added: 15 Jan 2000
ICIhas achieved a major part of its goal to dispose of its bulk chemicals businesses, by se…
SIZE matters
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Air Products' new air separation unit near Rotterdam is the largest of its kind in the world - and …Autotuning for temperature
Added: 15 Jan 2000
User-selectable interfaces for a wide range of inputs are a feature of the new GCR temperat…
Smart variable area meters
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Variable area (VA) flowmeters are commonplace units in the low-cost, general purpose sector…
Offshore vent system relies on butterflies
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Designed to allow the safe, controlled venting of flammable gases from offshore platforms, …
Saab takes off in UK level market
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Now in their sixth generation, radar level gauges from Saab Tank Control are available in t…
UK plant spending 'set to increase'
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Growth is expected to have returned to the process plant sector in 1997, following several …
Herculean pulp takeover
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Hercules, world-wide manufacturer of speciality chemicals, has acquired all BetzDearborn sh…
Micromachines set to find the cracks
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Minute machines could soon be patrolling industrial pipework and checking for cracks. Devel…
A fresh batch for Sequencia
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Sequencia and Honeywell have expanded their collaboration in the batch manufacturing field.…
Capital expenditure begins to slow down across UK process sectors
Added: 15 Jan 2000
A period of continuous growth of chemical industry capital expenditure has ended, according…
'Project cost estimating' A book review
Added: 15 Jan 2000
The expectations of many connected with estimating project costs were no doubt raised, writ…
Alfa's high-speed disc separator suits starch
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Alfa Laval Separation's new range of high speed disc-stack separators, including a nozzle s…
Environmental SHOWTIME
Added: 15 Jan 2000
The major environmental event of the year, ET '99 takes place next month at Birmingham's NEC. Here …Lobeline handles grit and rags
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Lobeline from Flygt is a range of lobe pumps designed for wastewater sludge handling applic…
ABB is driving for web success
Added: 15 Jan 2000
ABB claims to have launched the first network of variable speed drives distributors on the …
Vokes renders water sterile
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Brecon Water, the Welsh based producer of natural spring water, stakes its business on the …
From temperature to pressure to flow to
Added: 15 Jan 2000
If you want to be 'in control' you need to measure basic process parameters such as tempera…
