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BOC agrees to joint takeover
Added: 15 Jan 2000
BOC has accepted a joint offer from Air Liquide and Air Products, valuing the company at £1…
Packaged system gives tighter control of temperature for Thor
Added: 15 Jan 2000
At its Manchester factory, Thor Chemicals produces corrosion inhibitor chemicals in a batch…
Major redundancies loom as Procter & Gamble cleans house
Added: 15 Jan 2000
A major restructuring effort at Procter & Gamble is to leave 15,000 people without jobs and…
It's an ill wind
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Increasing development of industrial sites and the effects of wars in Eastern Europe are fu…
Wizcon is a whizz over the web
Added: 15 Jan 2000
The latest version (7.5) of PC Soft's flagship product Wizcon for Windows (and now Internet…
Borden facility
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Portasilo has supplied a urea prill handling and storage facility for Borden Chemical at it…
Shell consultancy moves into process industries
Added: 15 Jan 2000
It is over a year since Shell Global Solutions (SGS) offered its services beyond Shell to t…
Globe has integral positioner
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Part of the newly named Invensys Flow Control company - the merger between BTR and Siebe - …
Estimates, or guesstimates?
Added: 15 Jan 2000
It is normal for industries to base their selling prices on estimates, others establish sal…
ENGINEERING a sustainable future
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Introducing this month's special report on environmental issues, Stephen McKay argues that sustaina…ABB builds on strengths of acquisition
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Following its acquisition last year of Elsag Bailey Process Automation, the ABB Group has r…
Core-in-kettle exchangers cut costs
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Altec International's core-in-kettle brazed aluminium heat exchangers are designed to repla…
Alarm bells set to ring at show
Added: 15 Jan 2000
At InControl, EAO-Highland (299 on enquiry card) is featuring its extensive range of alarms…
TotalFina at stalemate with Elf Acquitaine over merger
Added: 15 Jan 2000
An acrimonious bidding war between France's two chemicals giants, TotalFina and Elf Acquita…
Scraped surface scores
Added: 15 Jan 2000
The HRS Multiscrape is a patented scraped surface heat exchanger combining large surface ar…
$14billion merger plan joins US control giants
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Aerospace-to-resins conglomerate AlliedSignal has agreed to merge with control giant Honeyw…
Sensors hang life on a fibre
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Sensors based on fibre-optic technology could help keep workers safe in polluted environmen…
Stack testing under EXAMINATION
Added: 15 Jan 2000
MCERTS are growing as Roger Brownlie discovered while talking to John Tipping of the Enviro…
AMEC and BNFL to be `long term partners'
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Long term `partnering agreements' are the trend as large corporations seek to secure themse…
