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East casts shadow over West

Added: 15 Jan 2000

New president; familiar themes. BP Chemical's Bryan Sanderson was keen to promote the peren…

Fossil fuel levy cashes in

Added: 15 Jan 2000

The fossil fuel levy raised £844million in the year to March, according to electricity regulator St…

LBL's accurate CO sensor

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Researchers at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory have developed a lightweight, low-cost carb…

Pitot metering added to range

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Recently added to the Fisher-Rosemount range of options for flow measurement is the Annubar…

Multi-million pound order

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Open and shut case: Tyco Valves and Controls has landed a `multi-million pound' order to supply act…

EVC/Hydro: the vinyl frontier

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Spurred on by falling margins, EVC and Norsk Hydro's petrochemicals division have decided t…

High-shear hygienic mixers

Added: 15 Jan 2000

For the controlled environments of pharmaceutical, biotechnology and food manufacturing ind…

Removing rust without acids

Added: 15 Jan 2000

BetzDearborn's Ferroquest iron deposit remover uses non-acid reagents to both remove rust d…

Nova bids for Shell businesses

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Canada's Nova Chemicals has posted a US$200million bid for Royal Dutch/Shell's polystyrene …

Flush AEAT buys Hyprotech for £34m

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Following a year's negotiation, AEA Technology paid £34m, in July, for Canadian process sim…

CFC smuggling ring broken by EU

Added: 15 Jan 2000

The European Union has had its first success in stopping the lucrative illegal trade in chl…

Bean glue

Added: 15 Jan 2000

The ubiquitous soya bean could soon be infiltrating a range of products away from the food …

Patents standards must be established, says Cefic

Added: 15 Jan 2000

The European Chemical Industry Council. CEFIC, has called for urgent changes in the way tha…

Drugs go Dutch

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Akzo Nobel is to invest some Fls70 million in a new plant in Oss, Netherlands, for its Dios…

Suppliers

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Sira divisions feel like a Newman

Fighting the foreign LEGIONNAIRES

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Operators of cooling towers and air conditioning systems are soon to face new regulations in keepin…

Calibration put in hand

Added: 15 Jan 2000

The new Fluke 725 multifunction process calibrator hands process technicians a quick and ea…

Responsible Care racks up ten years of action

Added: 15 Jan 2000

After a decade of largely voluntary action, the chemical industry's Responsible Care initiative is …

The clean steam machine

Added: 15 Jan 2000

`Clean steam' is a requirement in many processes involving sterilisation or humidification.…

AEA and OSI team up with Honeywell

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Honeywell Hi-Spec Solutions last month announced two new members of its Team Uniformance pr…