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It's an ill wind
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Increasing development of industrial sites and the effects of wars in Eastern Europe are fu…

Wizcon is a whizz over the web
Added: 15 Jan 2000
The latest version (7.5) of PC Soft's flagship product Wizcon for Windows (and now Internet…

Borden facility
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Portasilo has supplied a urea prill handling and storage facility for Borden Chemical at it…

Shell consultancy moves into process industries
Added: 15 Jan 2000
It is over a year since Shell Global Solutions (SGS) offered its services beyond Shell to t…

Globe has integral positioner
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Part of the newly named Invensys Flow Control company - the merger between BTR and Siebe - …

Estimates, or guesstimates?
Added: 15 Jan 2000
It is normal for industries to base their selling prices on estimates, others establish sal…

ENGINEERING a sustainable future
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Introducing this month's special report on environmental issues, Stephen McKay argues that sustaina…
ABB builds on strengths of acquisition
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Following its acquisition last year of Elsag Bailey Process Automation, the ABB Group has r…

Core-in-kettle exchangers cut costs
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Altec International's core-in-kettle brazed aluminium heat exchangers are designed to repla…

Alarm bells set to ring at show
Added: 15 Jan 2000
At InControl, EAO-Highland (299 on enquiry card) is featuring its extensive range of alarms…

TotalFina at stalemate with Elf Acquitaine over merger
Added: 15 Jan 2000
An acrimonious bidding war between France's two chemicals giants, TotalFina and Elf Acquita…

Scraped surface scores
Added: 15 Jan 2000
The HRS Multiscrape is a patented scraped surface heat exchanger combining large surface ar…

$14billion merger plan joins US control giants
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Aerospace-to-resins conglomerate AlliedSignal has agreed to merge with control giant Honeyw…

Sensors hang life on a fibre
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Sensors based on fibre-optic technology could help keep workers safe in polluted environmen…

Stack testing under EXAMINATION
Added: 15 Jan 2000
MCERTS are growing as Roger Brownlie discovered while talking to John Tipping of the Enviro…

AMEC and BNFL to be `long term partners'
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Long term `partnering agreements' are the trend as large corporations seek to secure themse…

A hard time without stress for Sandia's diamonds
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Diamonds might be a girl's best friend, but they could also be increasingly popular among e…

Veba acquisition promotes DSM
Added: 15 Jan 2000
DSM is to join the polyolefin majors by buying Vestolen, the polypropylene and polyethylene…

Engineering pay settlements fall
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Pay settlements in the engineering industries have fallen to a twelve-month low, according …