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Gas rigs take environment award

Added: 15 Jan 2000

A project to decommission and dismantle redundant gas drilling platforms has won the Engine…

News in brief

Added: 15 Jan 2000

* Ciba outstrips the market

Automatic gas dosing system

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Liechtenstein-based Balzers Instruments has developed a novel automatic gas dosing system, …

Low cost, simple level meter is easy to install

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Offering simple, accurate, non-contact level measurement, the Meggitt Mobrey MSP420 ultraso…

DuPont backs biotechnology

Added: 15 Jan 2000

A quarter of DuPont's revenues will come from renewable raw materials within ten years, acc…

ABB to buy Elsag Bailey for £1.2bn

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Elsag Bailey, one of the world's largest process automation companies, is to be sold to Swi…

Dust control in a package

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Billed as a `complete dust control package', DCE's new Unicell Concept combines its proven …

From plant to boardroom over the Internet

Added: 15 Jan 2000

While SCADA developers switch on to Java and its application program interfaces (APIs), the…

DSM and AlliedSignal floor the competition with carpet process

Added: 15 Jan 2000

DSM and AlliedSignal are to join forces for a project to recycle nylon carpet fibres into h…

Elf Acquitaine agrees merger with TotalFina

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Peace has broken out between French oil-to-chemicals giants Elf Acquitaine and TotalFina, a…

Fieldbus lays down firm foundations

Added: 15 Jan 2000

A Foundation Fieldbus network has been started up smoothly at Syncrude Canada's research ce…

There's growth in gases

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Industrial gases giant BOC saw pre-tax profits rise by 11 per cent in the year to September, to a r…

`We love Chlorine,' says CIA

Added: 15 Jan 2000

In an attempt to deflect current criticism of the use of chlorine, the UK Chemical Industri…

Quest ends search for new grounds

Added: 15 Jan 2000

At its Bromborough factory on the Wirral, Quest International produces a variety of food fl…

FLIR's uncool thermography?

Added: 15 Jan 2000

FLIR Systems' new ThermaCAM PM595 thermographic camera operates without need of the cryogen…

Hook goes to a hire level

Added: 15 Jan 2000

A NatWest-funded management buy-in has created one of the UK's largest industrial utility h…

Foresight to get ministerial coordination group

Added: 15 Jan 2000

The Foresight initiative, which identifies areas of research that are needed by industry, i…

Nothing going on but the RENTAL

Added: 15 Jan 2000

The trend for decentralisation and outsourcing in the process industries has led to many companies …

Butterflies for range of light duties

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Sigeval has introduced its type KL butterfly valves designed for those applications where a…

CONTRACTORS

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Amec fills a gap