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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…

INSTITUTIONS: PEOPLE

Added: 15 Jan 2000

IMechE finds new Commander

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…