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Watts going on at PC Soft

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Richard Watts, is to head up the European operations at process control software specialist PC Soft…

Sliding vanes for oil, ink and syrups

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Designed to handle low- or high-viscosity liquids, the Blackmer-Mouvex `P' series sliding v…

Bridge over OILY WATER

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Volvo Aero's plant produces large volumes of dirty water, which must be cleaned in accordance with …

First carpet recycling plant

Added: 15 Jan 2000

DSM and AlliedSignal have opened the world's first large-scale plant to recycle carpet fibr…

Steamy butterflies resist dirt

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Spirax Sarco has extended its high specification butterfly isolation valve range with the l…

AMEC goes to Bromley

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Tony Bromley is to replace the retiring Rodney Anderson as managing director of AMEC Construction, …

Research centres are reprieved

Added: 15 Jan 2000

The Department of Trade and Industry has decided that the three environmental research esta…

Shell caves in on green issues

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Shell has agreed to consult human rights and environmental activists on some of its `more sensitive…

Data logger can run at 120Hz

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Grant Instruments has expanded its Squirrel data logger range, boosting input capacity to 2…

Ajax cleans up powder problem

Added: 15 Jan 2000

A herbicide manufacturer experiencing feed and operational problems with an inclined agitat…

Water treatment benefits from multidrop system

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Filter beds at Sluvad water treatment works in South Wales are the site of what Meggitt Mob…

Emissions MONITORING?

Added: 15 Jan 2000

For the moment at least, notwithstanding developments in combustion analysis (see main text…

Pfeiffer pumps surge ahead

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Designed for pumping explosive gases and gas mixtures, the new WKP 6000 Roots pump from Pfe…

ABB joins energy initiative

Added: 15 Jan 2000

ABB Industrial Systems has become the first variable-speed drive manufacturer to sign up for a new …

Which fieldbus? Anyone you want

Added: 15 Jan 2000

While other system suppliers focus on one or another fieldbus, Moore Process Automation Sol…

Modern motors for modern drives

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Despite their increasing popularity, variable speed drives still probably account for only …

Oxo technology beefs up Simon Carves

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Synetix, ICI's catalysts division, has forged an agreement with process contractor Simon Ca…

Tetra Pak's Russian baby boom

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Uxbridge-based Tetra Pak has been awarded a £7million contract to supply processing and packaging e…

Electromagnetic heating for food

Added: 15 Jan 2000

The FRPERC (above) has also just started work on a three-year project to investigate electr…

A kneady case for control

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Manufacturer of food-grade emulsifiers for the bakery industry, AB Technology until recentl…