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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…