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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…

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…