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Monitor meets food hygiene regs
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Food hygiene regulations require continual monitoring and logging of frozen foodstuffs at a…

Black & Veatch buys into Europe
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Following its recent acquisition from Thames Water of water and wastewater company PWT Proj…

BP Amoco funds multiphase labs
Added: 15 Jan 2000
A research facility dedicated to investigating multiphase fluid flow is the first fruits of…

Irish boil in bed
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Foster Wheeler has been awarded a £8million contract from ESB, the state utility of Ireland…

Pre-mixer solves sucking problems for powder
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Joshua Greaves claims that its design of Liquivac vacuum pump solves the problems occurring…

EA Systems flying high
Added: 15 Jan 2000
A further step along the road to easier data exchange for process designers has been taken …

BOC buys into semiconductors
Added: 15 Jan 2000
The BOC group is to buy Californian company Systems Chemistry as part of its commitment to expand i…

EUREKA! Britain's a success
Added: 15 Jan 2000
The British chairmanship of the EU collaborative research initiative, EUREKA, which finishe…

Spiroflow conveys onwards and upwards
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Spiroflow's novel continuous blending system, using rotating spiral conveyors, has cut out …

Waste blending plant opens
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Europe's first waste solidification and fixation (SAF) plant, operated by the waste treatment divis…

FLIXBOROUGH 25 years on
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Although it happened a quarter of a century ago this month, the Flixborough disaster remains one of…
ABB to buy Alfa Laval Automation
Added: 15 Jan 2000
ABB has announced the purchase of the Alfa Laval Automation (ALA) unit from Alfa Laval of S…

Sterling handles the pressure
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Sterling Fluid Systems (Enquiry Card 309) has introduced a new pitot-tube pump, offering maintenanc…

Walker makes a solid start
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Process and dry bulk solids equipment manufacturer Kemutec has appointed Nick Walker as sales and m…

System removes cross sensitivity
Added: 15 Jan 2000
To keep up with continuous emission monitoring (CEM) systems running low levels of pollutan…

Armagard's personal touch to protect industrial PCs
Added: 15 Jan 2000
PC enclosure manufacturer Armagard is offering free on-site surveys and product demonstrations to c…
ABB drives a good deal on paper
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Over £500 000 worth of ABB Industrial Systems' drives and control equipment has been ordered by Igg…

BOC on the brink as competitors combine
Added: 15 Jan 2000
It looks as though venerable British industrial gases group BOC could be close to losing it…

A very sticky business
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Handling chocolate is a sticky business. Invariably it melts at room temperature, usually i…

Is less science needed for tomorrow's technologists?
Added: 15 Jan 2000
The traditional classification of chemistry as a `hard science' is causing problems with ed…