Latest Archive


Safety FIRST

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Data from the Hazop survey you performed then filed away could be made to work in your favour. Matt…

Obituary: Costimator

Added: 15 Jan 2000

It is with the deepest regret that we have this month to report the sudden death at the end…

Batch package aimed at bringing automation benefits to beginners

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Later in the year Sequencia is to launch its Procedure Manager software package aimed at th…

Courtaulds splits as fibres nosedive

Added: 15 Jan 2000

One of the UK's oldest chemical firms, Courtaulds, is to break up. The company has announce…

Hey Presto!

Added: 15 Jan 2000

UNIVERSITY FOCUS

Levity in Ludwigshafen

Added: 15 Jan 2000

`One of BASF's best years' was how chairman Jurgen Strube described 1996. Sales, cash flow,…

Lang speaks up for engineers

Added: 15 Jan 2000

The Engineering Council has signed a memorandum of understanding with Ian Lang, President of the Bo…

Pilot plant dryer to reach new heights

Added: 15 Jan 2000

For its eighth consecutive time at Eurochem, Niro (382) will present an array of spray drye…

ICI strengthens catalyst business

Added: 15 Jan 2000

ICI has agreed to swap its ceramic fibres business for J&J Dyson's `Dycat' subsidiary. Both…

Pompey's partnering project

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Contractors AMEC and Brown & Root have joined forces with Southern Water in a £100million partnerin…

Small controller for big market

Added: 15 Jan 2000

The recognised market leader in the PLC world, Rockwell Automation is now turning its atten…

Vanpipe's mobile laboratory

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Goodtech Vanpipe has launched a mobile laboratory and pilot-plant service for companies whi…

Slimmed-down Laporte delivers ahead of schedule

Added: 15 Jan 2000

A two-year restructuring programme has borne fruit at chemicals group Laporte, according to…

News in brief

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Management buy-out at Inspec

Carbon well spent at Glaxo

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Extraction and reactivation of Glaxo Wellcome's effluent treatment spent carbon is helping …

MAKING PLANS for food and drink

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Like all manufacturers these days, food and drink producers face tremendous competitive and custome…

Controlled by ABB

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Denmark's first fully-integrated North Sea oil and gas platform is to be controlled by ABB Industri…

Keeping track of steam flows

Added: 15 Jan 2000

The M640/Gilflo ILVA metering system from Spirax Sarco can give accurate, density-compensat…

Electronic `nose' analyses gases

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Neotronics Scientific's eNOSE 5000 laboratory gas analysis system is based on a modular des…

CHANGE of scene

Added: 15 Jan 2000

The Robert Robinson Laboratories Liverpool University's chemistry department have the scruf…