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BP and Imperial unveil catalyst

Added: 15 Jan 2000

A family of catalysts which combine the advantages of metallocenes with a much broader vers…

Processing porous polymers

Added: 15 Jan 2000

A range of highly porous polymers developed by DSM could make the use of additives far easi…

Industry awards recognise leaders in their fields

Added: 15 Jan 2000

`The award is acknowledgement of innovation and excellence and, as such, underlines our pos…

Just how PC is PC-CONTROL?

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Political correctness in today's `soft' control world demands that serious consideration only be gi…

New designs on vacuum

Added: 15 Jan 2000

For over the past 50 years Rietschle (347) has built its reputation on four pump types radi…

GE `hoists the Jolly Roger'

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Dow Chemical has accused GE Plastics of a campaign of piracy, after the company hired 14 employees …

Taking the bund on the road

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Of the many new developments to be seen on stand 334, Allibert Helix's portable safety bund…

Another bright idea down the environmental drain?

Added: 15 Jan 2000

It is very surprising that the problems with MTBE should only now have surfaced and been addressed

Queen awards the clean and green

Added: 15 Jan 2000

This year's Queen's Awards for environmental achievement honoured a combination of process …

Fill by weight, but with no weighing

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Based on a mass flowmeter to fill by the kilo, a Permex `fill by weight without weighing' s…

News in brief

Added: 15 Jan 2000

* EA keeps control of discharge

Cash boost for Euro research

Added: 15 Jan 2000

The European Commission has adopted the outline of the Ecu16billion (£11billion) Fifth Fram…

Bechtel orders

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Bechtel has awarded the Anderson Greenwood Group orders totalling £1million for valve equip…

Meeting the process CHALLENGE

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Metering and dosing systems are now part of the overall control strategy of many processes. Chris R…

Alliances to forge lab/plant links

Added: 15 Jan 2000

As first reported in PE last month (see p39, March), process engineering software specialis…

Sludge systems

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Developed by the water treatment division of Ciba Specialty Chemicals, the Alcotech-BP/CG d…

Coryton centralises control

Added: 15 Jan 2000

At the former Mobil oil refinery in Coryton, Essex, new operator BPOil UK has ordered approximately…

Aspen lines up Linde

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Aspen Technology has announced a five-year licence agreement with Linde, who will use the A…

Spinning up a storm of separations

Added: 15 Jan 2000

One of five Group companies sharing stand 3410, the Sharples Division of Alfa Laval Separat…

Centralised HQ for Grenco UK

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Industrial refrigeration specialist Grenco UK has closed its Camberley facilities and centr…