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Peristaltics squeeze the gap between lab and plant markets
Added: 15 Jan 2000
The dividing lines between the traditional markets for peristaltic pumps laboratories, mete…

AEA package `can save $1million/day'
Added: 15 Jan 2000
A system that helps chemical and pharmaceutical companies advance their products to market …

CO2 neutralises basic instincts
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Alkaline process and wastewater has traditionally been neutralised by strong mineral acids. But the…
Slippery business
Added: 15 Jan 2000
DuPont is planning a $40million development and manufacturing plant for Teflon fluoro-polym…

No leak under pressure
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Bran + Luebbe (B+L) has launched Novaplex (EC 310), a modular high pressure pump capable of powerin…

Hygienic pump cleans up
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Jabsco has introduced the Hy-Line series of hygienic rotary pumps that conform to all new h…

Catalyst libraries take the strain
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Choosing a catalyst for a process can be frustrating. Theory tells industrial chemists whic…

EPSRC opts for continuity
Added: 15 Jan 2000
The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council has re-appointed Courtaulds' research direct…

Zeneca invests in fungicide
Added: 15 Jan 2000
A new plant to formulate and package Zeneca's hoped-for blockbuster fungicide, Amistar, is …

Weir wins again in North Sea
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Two Weir Group subsidiaries, Weir Pumps and Hopkinsons, have won orders worth over £5million to sup…

Apprentice learns to win
Added: 15 Jan 2000
A lifetime of learning has helped Stephen Ingram, a 26-year-old who works for ICI in Billin…

In remembrance of times past and lessons learnt
Added: 15 Jan 2000
The events of 1 June 1974 marked the beginning of a change in attitudes towards the risks of indust…
Higher accuracy thermocouples
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Anville Instruments has extended the range of its Series 420 temperature logger to provide …

An extra `P' heralds environmental regulations
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Companies currently exempt from installing pollution control equipment could find themselve…

Furmanite and Spirax alliance
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Spirax Sarco, pipeline control and instrumentation specialist, has joined forces with Furma…

Tubes fight back against plates
Added: 15 Jan 2000
According to HDE Metallwerk, the high heat transfer rates expected of plate heat exchangers…

Who inspects the inspectors? SGS Group is on course
Added: 15 Jan 2000
At some time, every manufacturing plant needs to be inspected. The expertise of the inspectors is g…
New Labour, few strangers
Added: 15 Jan 2000
The Labour landslide at the General Election has lead to unfamiliar roles for some familiar…

Russian job a picnic for Jimi
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Trace heating specialist, Jimi-Heat, has just completed a £95 000 order for Cadbury Schweppes' new …