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Success at last as Siebe buys APV
Added: 15 Jan 2000
UK engineering giant Siebe has finally succeeded in buying process equipment maker APV - mo…

Hayward takes on US separators
Added: 15 Jan 2000
The complete range of separators, exhaust heads, traps and air vents, previously produced by Wright…

IS transmitters for tough duties
Added: 15 Jan 2000
The 8000-SAN series of intrinsically-safe, solid-state pressure transmitters from Nobel Sys…

No bearing on dry run pumps
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Vanton Pumps has developed a bearingless pump to avoid downtime caused by dry running. The …

AMEC LAPS up gas contract
Added: 15 Jan 2000
AMEC Process and Energy has been awarded the detailed design, procurement, construction and commiss…

Pump resists hostilities
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Liquid Dosing Control (EC 312) has introduced two new ranges of SERA double-headed diaphragm pumps …

Forever blowing bubbles
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Process engineers are very familiar with pumps and the various technologies they use. But i…

Three-in-one instrument cuts costs
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Able to measure and control pH, ORP (oxygen reduction potential) and temperature - either s…

Software logs incinerators
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Windmill's new software, Test-Seq for incinerators, records emissions and checks whether th…

Sounding out the chemicals in 25mm
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Danfoss' new 25mm Sono4100 ultrasonic flowmeter is targeted at the chemicals industry where…

INDICES: their use and abuse
Added: 15 Jan 2000
As an aide-memoir, this month we review the basics of plant cost indices - from their surprisingly …
Long-life bellows seal valve
Added: 15 Jan 2000
`The longest service life for any valve in its class' is the claim made for ARI Armaturen's…

Nuclear core comes clean
Added: 15 Jan 2000
AEA's metamorphosis in the last three years has spun off some interesting environmental solutions. …
California switches on to web I/Os
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Switching on a light in California from an office in Soho, and reading its changing tempera…

Fisher-Rosemount aims for Coriolis cuts
Added: 15 Jan 2000
A new series of Coriolis meters from Fisher-Rosemount allows the Coriolis technique to be u…

PINCH POINTS the way to integration
Added: 15 Jan 2000
A fundamental tool in process integration, pinch technology has widened its scope far beyond its or…
German exports up, but home market is still weak
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Foreign demand, aided by the weakness of the German mark, helped the German chemical indust…

Tracking pollution helps to keep Bristol drinking
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Four multiparameter monitoring stations are currently helping to detect and track down poll…

New sieve sizes
Added: 15 Jan 2000
New 400mm and 900mm diameter versions of the Airswept sieve have been introduced by Russell…