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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…