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Small controller for big market

Added: 15 Jan 2000

The recognised market leader in the PLC world, Rockwell Automation is now turning its atten…

Vanpipe's mobile laboratory

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Goodtech Vanpipe has launched a mobile laboratory and pilot-plant service for companies whi…

Slimmed-down Laporte delivers ahead of schedule

Added: 15 Jan 2000

A two-year restructuring programme has borne fruit at chemicals group Laporte, according to…

News in brief

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Management buy-out at Inspec

Carbon well spent at Glaxo

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Extraction and reactivation of Glaxo Wellcome's effluent treatment spent carbon is helping …

MAKING PLANS for food and drink

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Like all manufacturers these days, food and drink producers face tremendous competitive and custome…

Controlled by ABB

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Denmark's first fully-integrated North Sea oil and gas platform is to be controlled by ABB Industri…

Keeping track of steam flows

Added: 15 Jan 2000

The M640/Gilflo ILVA metering system from Spirax Sarco can give accurate, density-compensat…

Electronic `nose' analyses gases

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Neotronics Scientific's eNOSE 5000 laboratory gas analysis system is based on a modular des…

CHANGE of scene

Added: 15 Jan 2000

The Robert Robinson Laboratories Liverpool University's chemistry department have the scruf…

PCI keeps retainer

Added: 15 Jan 2000

PCI Membranes' stand shows its latest tubular membrane filtration system, which applies nan…

Ford's fanfare as diesel and dust are dispatched from Dagenham

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Ford's goal of being 'the greenest automotive manufacturer' has led emissions specialist Ch…

Coriolis helps keep ticklish coughs quiet

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Halls Mentholyptus cough drops have eased many a sore throat in their 75-year history. And …

Compact air exchangers

Added: 15 Jan 2000

The new TMS compressed air dryers from Ingersoll-Rand feature an improved, energy-efficient…

Modelling toxic threat from gas clouds

Added: 15 Jan 2000

VTT is working on another development related to the safe operation of plant, with two othe…

Powder machines for all seasons

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Ytron-Quadro is showing examples of its range of processing machines for solids and powders…

Pump with no seal

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Alpeco reveals the new Mouvex C Series hygienic pump, without mechanical seals or packing g…

Real-time PLC runs on PCs

Added: 15 Jan 2000

GE Fanuc's latest `PC Control' software gives fully integrated soft-PLC functionality on a Windows …

Absolutely no leaks from Gee

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Gee Graphite has designed the Geegraf Energised System to eliminate plant leakage problems …

Endless steel belt

Added: 15 Jan 2000

At the heart of this Rotocure machine, the world's largest of its type, is an endless steel belt 25…