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Zellweger eases chlorine problem
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Adding chlorine to drinking water is a tricky business. Its bactericidal action makes it ne…
BP Amoco links up with Elf Atochem in PP joint venture
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Elf Atochem and BP Amoco are to pool their European polypropylene activities, a move which …
Kvaerner's company restructure casts off shipbuilding businesses
Added: 15 Jan 2000
The troubled Anglo-Norwegian industrial engineering group Kvaerner is making major structur…
MTBE banned after California scheming
Added: 15 Jan 2000
A Californian ban of MTBE in petrol leaves the methanol industry scrambling for alternative markets…Safety first for stop and control valves
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Pipeline controls and instrumentation company Spirax Sarco, stand G19, is using C&I '97 to …
Technology theme
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Whenever solids and liquids need to be brought together in precise quantities, Bran+ Luebbe (317) s…
Magnetic attraction of leak-free pumps
Added: 15 Jan 2000
One of the wide range of chemical pumps on show by KSB (346) is the new Magnochem magnetic-…
Solidex extra
Added: 15 Jan 2000
In addition to Hosokawa Micron (see lead story on this page), several other companies used …
Courtaulds and Akzo Nobel get into lingerie
Added: 15 Jan 2000
`Encouraging progress' towards a new process for making solvent-spun cellulosic filament ya…
Albemarle and Rhodia raise stakes
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Rhodia's bid of £455million for UK chemical company Albright & Wilson was not enough to see…
Space is all a vacuum
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Graham Precision Pumps is exhibiting (Q15) a new range of side channel pumps and blowers al…
Keeping the cleaners clean
Added: 15 Jan 2000
The production of surgical disinfectants, a process that involves many stages and technolog…
SCADA wars, episode one
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Price wars are hitting two SCADA industry segments, according to market researchers from th…
Full clean-in-place features for powder air classifier mill
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Meeting the increasing demands from the pharmaceutical industry for full clean-in-place cap…
Bigger kegs are better
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Requirements for a 75-litre conductive-antistatic plastic keg can now be met by Curtec (ent…
Shop-to-top manufacturing
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Factory integration from plant floor up through high-level business systems is the goal of …
Pipe of plenty
Added: 15 Jan 2000
US demand for plastic piping is set to grow by 2.4 per cent to 14.7 billion feet in the yea…
Snead rises at Fisher-Rosemount
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Tom Snead has been appointed vice-president of Fisher-Rosemount Systems and Solutions, succeeding K…
Siemens aims to raise its UK profile
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Capitalising on this year's enlarged C&I show, Siemens Automation has adopted for its stand…
Construction slows
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Market consolidation in the engineering construction sector, coupled with financial and mar…
