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Bran+Luebbe goes to US
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Bran+Luebbe in its entirety has been sold to United Dominion Industries. This is the second…

In-line filters speed filling
Added: 15 Jan 2000
At its St Neots, Cambridgeshire, factory, plastisol producer Henkel Teroson UK wanted to sw…

Phys props plus from new data
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Process simulation would not be possible without a reliable source of physical properties d…

The global Brotherhood
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Peterborough-based engineering firm Brotherhood Process & Energy is to supply two reciproca…

Leukaemia all-clear
Added: 15 Jan 2000
There is no evidence for increased incidence of childhood leukaemia and non-Hodgkins lymphoma aroun…

Sweet success for Vanpipe
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Filtration specialist Vanpipe has designed and supplied a £1.1million nine-module package to a larg…

Calculations get easier and easier
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Users of Mathcad, one of the most popular calculation tools available to engineers, can now…

Gas sensor for personal safety
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Quantitech has launched a compact single gas monitor, known as the ISCT80. It offers 'enhan…

Centrifuge success spins out a second order
Added: 15 Jan 2000
When extra capacity was needed in its production of food ingredients, ADM Ringaskiddy in Co…

Pressurised pumping process succeeds for marginal well operators
Added: 15 Jan 2000
A new technique for pumping oil and gas out of `marginal' wells where pressure is low has b…

Global water in works
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Water treatment companies are restructuring in response to global demand for clean water te…

Allied Colloids comes out fighting against Hercules bid
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Hercules' hostile takeover bid for Allied Colloids was still raging as Process Engineering …

Engineering direction at IChemE
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Anthony Barber has been named director of engineering with the Institution of Chemical Engineers. …

Bridport works
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Birse Construction has been awarded a £6million contract for Bridport sewage treatment work…

Safer product sampling
Added: 15 Jan 2000
While planning the recent installation of a new processing line, engineers at Eastman Kodak…

Investment boom for computers
Added: 15 Jan 2000
British industry is to invest over £3.1billion in information technology in the coming year -the hi…

Conoco contract
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Honeywell has won a five-year contract from Conoco to provide support, maintenance and cons…

Management takes to the Internet
Added: 15 Jan 2000
At a recent joint event in Birmingham, key players in the manufacturing IT market demonstra…

Filter stands up to hot washes
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Equipment for the food and beverage industries has to cope with the degrading effects of fr…

EU approves Salter kit
Added: 15 Jan 2000
The first weight indicator to 'behave like a computer' has received trade approval for use …