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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 …

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.
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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 …