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BASF to boost chloro plants
Added: 15 Jan 2000
BASF is to increase its capacity for chloroformates, acid chlorides and alkyl chlorides at its Ludw…
Material benefits for Rickinson
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Bernard Rickinson has been appointed chief executive of the Institute of Materials. His career has…
Glaxo Wellcome flu drug setback
Added: 15 Jan 2000
The US Food and Drug Administration has refused to recommend Glaxo Wellcome's influenza treatment, …
BASF debottlenecks DMAPA
Added: 15 Jan 2000
BASF has increased its capacity for the surfactant intermediate dimethylaminopropylamine (DMAPA) at…
Aventis job losses rumoured
Added: 15 Jan 2000
A working document leaked to French business newspaper Les Echos suggests that Hoechst and Rhone-Po…
This parrot is... a girl
Added: 15 Jan 2000
The Norwegian Blue need pine no more. Britain's Laboratory of the Government Chemist, once state-o…
Davy down but not out
Added: 15 Jan 2000
From the beginning of this month, the Kv+rner Davy group of companies is operating under th…
Curved profile makes suitable plates for treatment
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Said to be ideal for use in the food, dairy and beverage indutries, the Fre-Flow Eurocal pl…
Safer transfer of liquids from containers
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Liquisafe is launching a range of redesigned and re-engineered stainless steel liquid trans…
Business backs green regulation
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Political parties are misreading the wishes of industry when they pledge to reduce environm…
Courtaulds falls to Akzo Nobel bid
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Courtaulds' plan to split itself into three sections as reported in April's PE(see page 9) …
Aseptic filtering a speciality
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Said to be specifically designed for aseptic processing of pharmaceutical grade liquids, th…
Silver lining for glass-lining firm
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Glass-lining specialist Pfaudler-Balfour has won an order of over £1 million to supply 657 tonnes o…
Recriminations as drugs merger collapses
Added: 15 Jan 2000
The biggest merger in corporate history, which would have joined together SmithKline Beecha…
Missing Mono found again
Added: 15 Jan 2000
In last month's PE on page 59 we reported on an application of Mono Pump's Industrial E range of pr…
Six in one temperature calibration unit
Added: 15 Jan 2000
A temperature calibration unit from Labfacility combines up to six temperature calibration …
Nuclear alliance for R-R and S-C
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Rolls-Royce Nuclear Engineering Services and Simon Carves are to form an alliance to provid…
Foundation fieldbus at heart of in-field control
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Process control makes the new products headlines this month, as the fieldbus saga opens a new chapt…Committee set to study PSREs
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Medeva chairman John Baker is to head a committee investigating the commercialisation of pu…
SKB takes over NHS lab
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Pharmaceuticals giant SmithKline Beecham is to take over the operation of a pathology laboratory at…
