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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.

Contracts

Added: 15 Jan 2000

* Transco ups the pressure

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…