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Protecting process CHILLERS

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Depending on the thermal fluid used, process chillers can be prone to severe corrosion. Here, Alan …

ICI hits snags in titanium dioxide negotiations with Huntsman

Added: 15 Jan 2000

The trouble-hit sale of ICI's titanium dioxide business has hit yet another delay, with the…

Laporte courts PPG

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Clariant of Switzerland will not be buying UK speciality company Laporte because of Clarian…

Stone hot

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Stone & Webster will design and supply a £12 million furnace, plus facilities, for the Rafn…

NATO strikes leave three plants in ruin

Added: 15 Jan 2000

The intensification of NATO air strikes against Serbian infrastructure has destroyed three …

Acrylonitrile partnership

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Dutch firm DSMand Spain's Repsol are to combine their acrylonitrile marketing, sales and tr…

Tracing takes a systems approach

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Heat Trace's display on stand F24 in Hall 4.1 puts the emphasis on the company's systems ap…

New forms for OFFER and Ofgas

Added: 15 Jan 2000

The UK regulatory offices for the gas and electricity industries, Ofgas and OFFER, have com…

Mitsubishi achieves microwave graphite

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Driven by the increasing demand for high-power compact batteries, Mitsubishi Heavy Industri…

Ventron's founder takes the chair

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Stockport-based process contractor Ventron Technology has reshuffled its top-level manageme…

BP and Imperial unveil catalyst

Added: 15 Jan 2000

A family of catalysts which combine the advantages of metallocenes with a much broader vers…

Processing porous polymers

Added: 15 Jan 2000

A range of highly porous polymers developed by DSM could make the use of additives far easi…

Industry awards recognise leaders in their fields

Added: 15 Jan 2000

`The award is acknowledgement of innovation and excellence and, as such, underlines our pos…

Just how PC is PC-CONTROL?

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Political correctness in today's `soft' control world demands that serious consideration only be gi…

New designs on vacuum

Added: 15 Jan 2000

For over the past 50 years Rietschle (347) has built its reputation on four pump types radi…

GE `hoists the Jolly Roger'

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Dow Chemical has accused GE Plastics of a campaign of piracy, after the company hired 14 employees …

Taking the bund on the road

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Of the many new developments to be seen on stand 334, Allibert Helix's portable safety bund…

Another bright idea down the environmental drain?

Added: 15 Jan 2000

It is very surprising that the problems with MTBE should only now have surfaced and been addressed

Queen awards the clean and green

Added: 15 Jan 2000

This year's Queen's Awards for environmental achievement honoured a combination of process …

Fill by weight, but with no weighing

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Based on a mass flowmeter to fill by the kilo, a Permex `fill by weight without weighing' s…