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Ultrafiltration provides solution to unwanted heavy metals

Added: 15 Jan 2000

An innovative filtration system is helping a Glaswegian packaging manufacturer reduce pollu…

`Dialogue' needed on chemicals management

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Chemical companies have to be prepared to discuss matters of risk assessment with organisations whi…

News in brief

Added: 15 Jan 2000

* Degussa does Dupont deal

Cantilever pump suits dry running

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Vanton's SGK range of thermoplastic vertical centrifugal sump pumps is designed to handle c…

Sink or Swim

Added: 15 Jan 2000

It is said that all good things come to those who wait. However, if your job is to supply t…

Roxboro takes control

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Cambridge-based control technology group Roxboro has bought ISA Controls, a temperature and…

Grosvenor's Pygme grows into a Pyxel

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Grosvenor Pumps has introduced the new Pyxel range of oil supported diaphragm pumps intende…

Applied range suits ultralow to ultrahigh pressures

Added: 15 Jan 2000

The PR series of differential pressure transmitters from Applied Measurements is capable of…

Auma actuators isolate batch reactors

Added: 15 Jan 2000

When completed, Cardiff waste water treatment works (WWTW) will be the largest WWTW ever co…

Samson's strengths

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Said to show the `usual solid Samson quality', the company's new V2001 process control valv…

Emission control

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Environmental regulators and process operators met at a recent symposium to discuss the European Co…

Carry on transporting

Added: 15 Jan 2000

For chemicals companies who need to offer just-in-time delivery, the highway is not as super as it …

Kvaerner's company restructure casts off shipbuilding businesses

Added: 15 Jan 2000

The troubled Anglo-Norwegian industrial engineering group Kvaerner is making major structur…

MTBE banned after California scheming

Added: 15 Jan 2000

A Californian ban of MTBE in petrol leaves the methanol industry scrambling for alternative markets…

Safety first for stop and control valves

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Pipeline controls and instrumentation company Spirax Sarco, stand G19, is using C&I '97 to …

Technology theme

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Whenever solids and liquids need to be brought together in precise quantities, Bran+ Luebbe (317) s…

Magnetic attraction of leak-free pumps

Added: 15 Jan 2000

One of the wide range of chemical pumps on show by KSB (346) is the new Magnochem magnetic-…

Solidex extra

Added: 15 Jan 2000

In addition to Hosokawa Micron (see lead story on this page), several other companies used …

Courtaulds and Akzo Nobel get into lingerie

Added: 15 Jan 2000

`Encouraging progress' towards a new process for making solvent-spun cellulosic filament ya…

Albemarle and Rhodia raise stakes

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Rhodia's bid of £455million for UK chemical company Albright & Wilson was not enough to see…