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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…

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…

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…