Latest Archive

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…