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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…