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FORESTDUMP: WHY WOODS COULD BECOME INDUSTRY'S PRIZED ASSET
Added: 15 Jan 2000
European process associations favour emissions trading as an alternative to energy taxes for reduci…
We're picking up good vibrations
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Particle sizing is an often-overlooked but vital part of many processes. Where industrial p…

Dow Chemical new plant
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Dow's new polystyrene plant at BSL in eastern Germany, the largest single-train PS facility in Euro…
SURVIVAL EVEN in the face of diversity
Added: 15 Jan 2000
It has been around 60 years since the first plate heat exchangers were developed, but their…

Refinery deal for BOC Gases
Added: 15 Jan 2000
BP Amoco has awared BOC Gases the contract to build a £73million on-site hydrogen plant and…

Portable vessels withstand 13.8bar
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Designed to meet ASME requirements, portable A-P-C pressure vessels are ideal for storing, …

Level measurement flows down the wire
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Combining time domain reflection technology with its experience in radar level measurement,…

Patent Office site keeps you up to speed with IP
Added: 15 Jan 2000
More than 400 pages of information about intellectual property (IP) are available on the Patent Off…
A running flush for membranes?
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Membrane filtration is just one of three innovative methods of water collection and recycli…

Oxley's thick films
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Thick-film technology provides the key to Oxley Developments' new range of water monitoring…

Cracking monitor boosts electronic tube production
Added: 15 Jan 2000
An ammonia monitoring system developed by Bromborough-based CBISS is helping to improve the…

Heater and jacket
Added: 15 Jan 2000
The combination of barrel heater and insulating jacket which recently won a Queen's Award f…

Dow Chemical set to swallow Union Carbide
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Dow Chemical is to take over Union Carbide, and will retire the name of the company which b…

Graphalloy lets pumps run dry
Added: 15 Jan 2000
FTL Seals Technology has announced the availability of Graphalloy bearing materials; carbon…

Here comes the sun
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Australia: land of unending sunshine and strange hybrids such as the duckbilled platypus an…

The dye is cast for purification at Westdale
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Westdale Dyeing & Finishing is beginning to reap the benefits of switching from mains water…

BOC agrees to joint takeover
Added: 15 Jan 2000
BOC has accepted a joint offer from Air Liquide and Air Products, valuing the company at £1…

Packaged system gives tighter control of temperature for Thor
Added: 15 Jan 2000
At its Manchester factory, Thor Chemicals produces corrosion inhibitor chemicals in a batch…

Major redundancies loom as Procter & Gamble cleans house
Added: 15 Jan 2000
A major restructuring effort at Procter & Gamble is to leave 15,000 people without jobs and…