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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…

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…