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Shanks & McEwan investigates recycling Scottish plastics waste

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Valpak, the plastics industry's compliance body for recycling waste plastic packaging, is t…

Strawberry fields plant data

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Strawberry Tree's WorkBench PC for Windows software - an icon-based package for data acquis…

Look, no wires

Added: 15 Jan 2000

American researchers are developing a new catalyst system which, they claim, could produce …

Wide-ranging humidity meters

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Dewpro from Endress+Hauser is described as the world's first complete family of dewpoint me…

Spinning sludge

Added: 15 Jan 2000

After next year, Britain's sewage sludge can no longer be dumped at sea. But this good news…

ICI close to Wilton cracker deal

Added: 15 Jan 2000

ICI's withdrawal as a player in the commodity chemicals business is about to reach its most…

Machine monitoring saves paper

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Paper machines are complex blends of process and mechanical engineering, with large amounts…

Czech mate for Air Products

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Air Products has entered into a partnership agreement with Unipetrol, the Czech Republic's …

News in brief

Added: 15 Jan 2000

A hard record to beat

Greensand caught in cyclone

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Alfer reduced disposal costs at its Preston foundry with the installation of Donaldson filt…

Memtech joins Thames

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Thames Water is acquiring Swansea-based membrane system manufacturers Memtech UK.

Co…

AEA specialists help to heal Chinese burns

Added: 15 Jan 2000

The Chinese government is turning its eyes to the UK in attempts to reduce emissions result…

Multiphase flow research takes off

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Process systems are becoming ever more complex, and monitoring the multiphase mixtures flow…

Bracing for tough times

Added: 15 Jan 2000

BASF Group has announced financial figures for 1998 showing a slight decrease in net sales …

Take control in a time of fast-changing technology

Added: 15 Jan 2000

There was a time when the highlight of any visit to a C&I show would be hearing the latest …

Process engineers in control? They should be

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Last month was a special one in the life of the Institution of Chemical Engineers. In a wee…

New plant starts up

Added: 15 Jan 2000

A 5000t/a isophoronediamine plant has come on-stream at BASF's Ludwigshafen site, tripling the comp…

Process filter has self-cleaning feature

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Available in the UK from Technical Sales International, the robust EDAK-Sulzer filter featu…

Titanium pressure vessel shipped

Added: 15 Jan 2000

One of the biggest titanium pressure vessels ever fabricated in the UK has been shipped from the Di…

NO TANGLE formula

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Designing the complex tangles of pipework that are the vital arteries of any process plant …