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ICI hits trouble over Crosfield sale
Added: 15 Jan 2000
The collapse of ICI's proposed sale of the bulk of its Crosfield subsidiary to US specialti…
In Dublin's fairer city
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Two UK water industry companies will play a major role in an IR£200million project to provi…
Technology alliance for fieldbus
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Yokogawa and the Dresser Group are forming an alliance to develop and market Foundation fie…
Solvay to gain control of BASF vinyl chain in venture
Added: 15 Jan 2000
BASF and Solvay are discussing a joint venture that would merge the companies' vinyl and ch…
Double your money
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Distillation is one of the oldest tricks in the process engineer's book, and the towering d…
The lower the better?
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Engineering firms are hoping for the minimum wage proposed by the Labour Party to be as low as poss…
Giant pumpset undergoes testing
Added: 15 Jan 2000
A giant pumpset, left, the largest ever made by Weir Pumps of Glasgow, undergoes final testing befo…
Planning your next Breakdown?
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Predicting a breakdown could mean avoiding a shutdown. Software that tracks equipment performance, …University chemical engineering courses
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Smith and Nephew chairman John Robinson repeated calls for the government and industry to put money…
Brent Spar: Shell counts the costs
Added: 15 Jan 2000
The cost of disposing of Shell's troublesome oil storage buoy, Brent Spar, could be as much…
Control Systems Integration in a business environment
Added: 15 Jan 2000
A central theme to the Control Systems Integration part of CIM '99 is the need to link plan…
Hamworthy services
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Burner manufacturer Hamworthy Combustion Engineering has boosted its customer support activities to…Foster Wheeler wins safety plaudits
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Contractor Foster Wheeler has been awarded the gold medal for safety from the Royal Society…
ERP set for growth
Added: 15 Jan 2000
`ERP (enterprise resource planning) implementation has enormous implications. It promises o…
The New Product Seminar Theatre
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Exhibitors will have the opportunity to unveil new products at both C&I 99 and PE 99 by mak…
Ingredients for fixing the M25
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Applied Weighing has fitted a series of 16 Safemount load cells to two bitumen blend vessel…
On-line analysis tunes in
Added: 15 Jan 2000
A new process analyser from Rosemount Analytical is said to `go far beyond the realms of co…
Weir water
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Weir Westgarth, Weir's desalination arm, is to install a new £29million water-making capaci…
US chiral chemicals demand set to grow
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Demand for chiral chemicals in the US is set to increase by almost ten per cent each year u…
