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Relieving the pressure
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Suitable for a wide range of gauge, absolute and differential pressure applications, Varioh…

Expanding contractor: Mowlem scoops process projects
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Mowlem Engineering Services has won three UK process engineering projects worth around £20m…

UKTrade aims to be `virtual business centre' on web
Added: 15 Jan 2000
A web site touted as `the world's first virtual business park, where companies can conduct …

Critical development
Added: 15 Jan 2000
A universal solvent with no harmful properties, and which simplifies and cuts the costs of …

Sterling send pumps to Iraq
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Sterling are sending 160 horizontal split casing pumps to Iraq for vital sewage and drinking water …

Chile source
Added: 15 Jan 2000
LabSystems has built its first bridgehead to Latin America with an alliance in Chile. The c…

WAGE RATES show the trends
Added: 15 Jan 2000
In the global economy, as manufacturing is switched around the world on the whim of multinational c…
Environmental benefits from PCI
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Two recent applications of membrane filters engineered by PCI Membrane Systems demonstrate …

Dangerous dust removal
Added: 15 Jan 2000
In the summer, Glaxo Wellcome increased the production at its Hertfordshire site and needed…

The perils of mixing
Added: 15 Jan 2000
A mystery leak at a refinery has highlighted corrosion problems that can occurring at mixin…

Waste jv for UK and Eire
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Stork Protech and German waste water treatment specialist Wehrle Werk have formed a joint v…

Gasket is hot stuff
Added: 15 Jan 2000
A gasket compound capable of resisting temperatures from -185 degrees C to 1290 degrees C i…

John Crane buys Sealol
Added: 15 Jan 2000
TI Group has reached an agreement for its John Crane Group to acquire the Sealol Industrial…

BHR cuts reactor development costs
Added: 15 Jan 2000
The results of a European Union-funded project may soon help chemical companies save time a…

A touch of FROTH
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Foam has always been seen as a problem with processes involving fermentation, but as David Ridealgh…
New start-up for Elf Atochem
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Elf Atochem has started up its new plastic additives plant in the Netherlands. Producing ac…

Equipment costs (16): AIR-COOLED EXCHANGERS
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Continuing our series on budget cost estimates for specific plant equipment items, Costimat…

It's much easier being green thanks to landfill tax
Added: 15 Jan 2000
The landfill levy the tax on wastes sent to landfill has proved to be a 'roaring success' i…