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Welcome to Windows CE
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Claimed to be the first PLC control platform that runs the Windows CE operating system, Win…

On the road to Rio and sustainability
Added: 15 Jan 2000
The 1992 Rio Declaration committed its signatories `to integrate conservation of natural re…

Virtually real: Cadcentre's new models
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Process plant design specialist Cadcentre has teamed up with Shell to design what it claims…

InControl offers data acquisition by any other name
Added: 15 Jan 2000
If exhibitions are about anything, it's data acquisition. Normally, that's information on t…

Bespoke heat exchangers boost fertilisers
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Four bespoke shell and tube heat exchangers have been supplied by Crane Heatex to the Immin…

Building up in drugs
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Pfizer has awarded a contract for the building of a new pharmaceuticals manufacturing plant in Irel…
CD-ROM helps in pump selection
Added: 15 Jan 2000
AEA Technology has released a CD-ROM called Pumps and Pumping, which it says will provide e…

BP and Union Carbide both claim victory over patent
Added: 15 Jan 2000
The long-running patents dispute between BP Chemicals and Union Carbide over their high-pro…

Shell and Mobil shelve their Peruvian plans
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Royal Dutch/Shell has announced the cancellation of a $3 billion plan for the Camisea natur…

Environmentally friendly air compressor
Added: 15 Jan 2000
When fitted to one of Ingersoll-Rand's portable compressors, the company's new IQ System te…

CONFIDENCE under pressure
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Effective calibration of pressure instruments, together with traceability to recognised standards, …
Plastics take the shocks others can't
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Chem Resist's range of thermoplastic shell and tube heat exchangers has been developed to o…

'First' downhole multiphase pump heads for N Sea
Added: 15 Jan 2000
A downhole multiphase pump is being installed in Texaco's Captain Field in the North sea.
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Brewery denies drink problem
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Few things are as annoying, and expensive as spilling beer, over and over again. Fuller Smi…

PP licence for Egyptian plant
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Targor, the Hoechst/BASF polypropylene joint venture, has granted a licence to privately-he…

Weir Group continues buying spree
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Weir Group has acquired Flowguard, the UK manufacturer of pulsation dampers. The deal is We…

Process and control focus for Foresight LINK awards
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Some £10million-worth of government funding has been earmarked to strengthen the links betw…

EMISSIONS a case for the FEDs
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Valve stems and flanges are the major cause of fugitive emissions. Hindle's Bob Merrifield provides…
Internet commerce is `the great leveller', says Ross
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Electronic customer services functions are set to transform how companies work, according t…