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No-moving-parts tank gauging
Added: 15 Jan 2000
The ITT Barton Model 3500 automatic tank gauge system uses the company's proprietary DPE (d…

A fine time for chemicals
Added: 15 Jan 2000
The world market for fine chemicals is worth some $70billion, according to market research …

MF's interactive net woos business
Added: 15 Jan 2000
News and archive material from Miller Freeman's technical publications, including Process E…

Soil mitigation market to grow
Added: 15 Jan 2000
The market for remediating ground water and soil in Europe will rise from £4.3billion in 19…

Corn shakes
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Replacement of a star/delta starter with a variable speed drive on a breakfast cereal mixer…

Rockwell moves into IS market with I/O devices
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Rockwell Automation has moved into the market for intrinsically-safe control equipment with…

Geology laid bare
Added: 15 Jan 2000
The UK's geological and geographical data are now available to businesses via the internet.…

Roche's diagnostic deal puts paid to Zeneca rumours
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Swiss pharmaceutical giant Roche is to pay $11billion for the Boehringer Mannheim Group, wh…

Strong pound sends UK chemicals output tumbling
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Chemicals output in the UK slipped by 0.6 per cent in 1997, despite a 4 per cent rise in wo…

Multivariable transmitters get smarter and smarter
Added: 15 Jan 2000
New models in Honeywell's SMV 3000 range of smart multivariable transmitters now enable flo…

First footing for Fieldbus at last
Added: 15 Jan 2000
In what is claimed as the world's first commercial application of products conforming to th…

WATERwise
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Capital's sales and marketing director Frank Tomlinson explains: 'studies have shown that in some c…
It's just a PHASE
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Stuart Nathan visits the National Engineering Laboratory's multiphase flow centre, where meters and…
Threat of gas blasts minimised
Added: 15 Jan 2000
There has been speculation that the infamous explosions at Flixborough and La Spieza were a…

Westinghouse heads for F-R
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Emerson Electric, the US parent company of Fisher-Rosemount, has paid $265 million for West…

Looks like a million dollars
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Well, that's the value of this hydrogen gas purification system shipped to the Petromin lubricating…

Multivariable monitoring
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Aspen Multivariate, an application within Aspen Technology's InfoPlus.21 process informatio…

New LIMS
Added: 15 Jan 2000
The increasing demand for LIMS systems has led laboratory information specialist LabSystems…

Fitting service from Fileder ensures regular R/O supplies
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Users of reverse osmosis water purification systems could benefit from a new `supply and fi…

All-in-one processing units
Added: 15 Jan 2000
`The processing unit of the future.' That's what Fryma-Maschinen calls its Frymix system, t…