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Added: 15 Jan 2000

* EA keeps control of discharge

Cash boost for Euro research

Added: 15 Jan 2000

The European Commission has adopted the outline of the Ecu16billion (£11billion) Fifth Fram…

Bechtel orders

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Bechtel has awarded the Anderson Greenwood Group orders totalling £1million for valve equip…

Meeting the process CHALLENGE

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Metering and dosing systems are now part of the overall control strategy of many processes. Chris R…

Alliances to forge lab/plant links

Added: 15 Jan 2000

As first reported in PE last month (see p39, March), process engineering software specialis…

Sludge systems

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Developed by the water treatment division of Ciba Specialty Chemicals, the Alcotech-BP/CG d…

Coryton centralises control

Added: 15 Jan 2000

At the former Mobil oil refinery in Coryton, Essex, new operator BPOil UK has ordered approximately…

Aspen lines up Linde

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Aspen Technology has announced a five-year licence agreement with Linde, who will use the A…

Spinning up a storm of separations

Added: 15 Jan 2000

One of five Group companies sharing stand 3410, the Sharples Division of Alfa Laval Separat…

Centralised HQ for Grenco UK

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Industrial refrigeration specialist Grenco UK has closed its Camberley facilities and centr…

By-product reacts badly

Added: 15 Jan 2000

There is one major problem in using digester gas for generation, and that is the make-up of…

Ciba warns of tough trading

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Sales at Ciba Specialty Chemicals rose 6 per cent in the first quarter of 1999, to SFr2.1bi…

Resin blenders and store data

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Bartec's speciality is the design and manufacture of machines and systems for the precise m…

Materials a-weigh

Added: 15 Jan 2000

K-Tron (381) says its Smart Flow meter is becoming an industry standard for high rate solids meteri…

Manifold talents - with added piggability

Added: 15 Jan 2000

IST Molchtechnik has recently completed the design and installation of a new part-piggable …

Declining Queen's Awards still bring out the best

Added: 15 Jan 2000

The fall in both applicants and winners of this year's Queen's Awards has not detracted fro…

Golding's glittering promotion

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Wincanton Engineering has named Mike Golding as its new managing director. Previously with Redland …

MG acquisition gains approval

Added: 15 Jan 2000

The European Commission and US Federal Trade Commission have approved Metallgesellschaft's …

Mind over antimatter

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Studying what happens inside a piece of process equipment can be daunting, but a technique …

Pullen Pumps joins Anderson

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Pullen Pumps, manufacturers of centrifugal pumps and pumps systems, has been bought by Howa…