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Valves hold the key to CASS plant
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Keystone valves are playing an important rOle in the new £5million Wath sewage treatment wo…

AEA lands £7m job for BNFL
Added: 15 Jan 2000
AEA Technology, the recently privatised science and engineering group, is part of a consort…

No fuel like an old fuel
Added: 15 Jan 2000
An alliance between BG Technology and Alstom is set to speed up the development of fuel cel…

Even simpler fieldbus connections
Added: 15 Jan 2000
One of the main selling points for any fieldbus system is the reduced cabling involved. But…

Neste Oxo hits the gravy train
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Neste Oxo has started up a new 15 000t/a acid plant at Stenungsund, Sweden. Costing some SKr125mil…

Monsanto takes the Zeneca option
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Monsanto has become the latest major chemical company to succumb to the restructuring fervo…

STEAMED up
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Despite developments in electrical trace heating, steam systems remain dominant - and with reason, …
Award-winning engine is light in the air thanks to new moulding process
Added: 15 Jan 2000
The environmentally-friendly Rolls-Royce Trent aircraft engine has won this year's MacRober…

One monitor handles all beer specifications
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Paar Scientific has introduced an in-line beer monitor that, with only a single density/sou…

Degussa in jv to improve rubber
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Silica and organosilane producer Degussa AG is taking part in a research joint venture for …

Walthambury range upgraded
Added: 15 Jan 2000
WJ Morray Engineering, based in Braintree, has upgraded its Walthambury range of weigh/bagg…

Sweet and low moisture measurement
Added: 15 Jan 2000
If sugar is allowed to become too moist, it tends to set into lumps, causing severe problem…

Benchmarking boost for R&D
Added: 15 Jan 2000
The R&D Society has created a new special interest group in the benchmarking of research an…

Monitoring wet wood and sawdust
Added: 15 Jan 2000
The levels of moisture in sawdust and woodchip used in manufacture of MDF and particle boar…

UK and US pump companies merge
Added: 15 Jan 2000
The Yorkshire-based David Brown Pumps has merged with the Union Pump Company of Michigan to…

Information technology: buy or sell it, but above all, use it
Added: 15 Jan 2000
What can be made of the recent boom in Internet-related stocks and shares? Well, at the mom…

Less waste MORE HEAT
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Scotland's malt whisky industry is finding novel ways of using heat exchangers to evaporate excess …
Tank monitor doubles as data logger
Added: 15 Jan 2000
DataScan from Barton Instrument Systems is a new system designed for measuring and transmit…

Compression and tension cell
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Control Transducers is introducing its S Type range of load cells. The SI Series has measur…

AEA takes lead in powder project
Added: 15 Jan 2000
A project aimed at helping powder manufacturers to enhance product quality and reduce costs…