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Lloyd's acts to relieve pressure
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Lloyd's Register and its technical inspection, certification and advisory subsidiary, Lloyd…

Datastor helps the wheels go round
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Datastor Systems has completed the final phase of a £250000 automated control installation at Gulf …

Hoechst sells Trevira to US-Mexican consortium
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Hoechst the German chemicals leviathan which is in the process of transforming itself into …

Putting pipes in the picture
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Pipeline Studio is a Windows-based package from LICEnergy for the steady-state and transien…

Sundh's success at Sandvik
Added: 15 Jan 2000
David Shail is to retire as UK managing director of process equipment manufacturer Sandvik after ov…

Springing into action down in Dorset's badger land
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Local Blandford brewer Hall and Woodhouse is using an advanced new plant to treat the sprin…

Speed is the key for carbon
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Activated carbon is more active if it is made quickly, according to researchers at the Univ…

Dosing controller is easily programmed
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Designed for chemical dosing/monitoring applications in processing and water treatment, Jes…

PREDICT indices: a time to revisit, review and reformat
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Every so often in the long history of Process Engineering's plant cost indices, known as th…

Weir builds on success
Added: 15 Jan 2000
After turning down Flowserve's takeover bid, the Weir Group continues to win new business i…

Mini-coolers are modular
Added: 15 Jan 2000
A new range of small, packaged cooling towers from Cooling Tower Services provides a modula…

Fireproof hosing braves 1100oC
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Aflex Hose, on stand 412, has developed a fire resistant capability for its Corroflon and Bioflon h…

Running on the SPOT
Added: 15 Jan 2000
This year's lukewarm response to the Chemical Industries Association's Investment Intentions Survey…
Pfizer pumps up its green policy
Added: 15 Jan 2000
As part of a new £20million waste water treatment plant being built for Pfizer's pharmaceut…

Cyclicals back in favour
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Just as ICI, Hoechst, Bayer, Rhone-Poulenc, Monsanto and other giants managed to steer thei…

Management changes at Knoll
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Chris Schroder has taken on the roles of managing director of BASF's drugs subsidiary Knoll…

TALKING PLANTS and crystal balls
Added: 15 Jan 2000
The Institution of Chemical Engineers celebrated its 75th anniversary last month with a glimpse of …
Plate heat exchangers tackle 2000m3/h
Added: 15 Jan 2000
On stand 433, HRS Process Engineering has examples of its extensive range of plate heat exc…

Renewables set free
Added: 15 Jan 2000
The Electricity Act 1989 requires Public Electricity Suppliers in England and Wales to secu…

Jet car to welcome visitors
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Poised for an attempt on the British land-speed record, the Split Second jet car will be pe…