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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…
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…