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Ciba's first year sees profits almost double

Added: 15 Jan 2000

It's been an eventful year for Ciba Specialty Chemicals. Its first year after being demerge…

Control vendors offer lower cost links from plantfloor to office

Added: 15 Jan 2000

A key factor in ensuring safe and hygienic food manufacture is information throughout the p…

Pembroke: a safer place four years on

Added: 15 Jan 2000

In the aftermath of the 1994 fire and explosion at Texaco's refinery in Pembroke, South Wal…

Bromley succeeds long-serving Bew

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Adrian Bromley has been named chief executive officer at ICI Chemicals and Polymers, succeeding Bob…

Chlorine analysis system shows its mussel

Added: 15 Jan 2000

At the Heysham II nuclear power station in North Lancashire large volumes of chlorinated wa…

A PACT with C&I suppliers

Added: 15 Jan 2000

The University of Sheffield has opened a process control laboratory designed to help postgr…

Energy tax tempers CIA optimism

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Chemical output in the UK is set to increase only slightly behind GDP, despite the lacklust…

O2 analysers ready for use

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Fully calibrated to NIST standards and ready for use on delivery, Able Instruments' new low…

AAF Air Pollution Control

Added: 15 Jan 2000

The feast after the famine - after a boom of contracts in the 1970s, AAF Air Pollution Control expe…

Distillation takes a SHORT CUT

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Boiling liquids are normally associated with high temperatures. But organic liquids will cook if te…

StoneL's range enhances communication

Added: 15 Jan 2000

On stand E77, StoneL will be showing its latest valve communication and control products. T…

A flair for problem solving at Grangemouth

Added: 15 Jan 2000

The most striking feature of many chemical plants and refineries are the flares that burn off exces…

US biotech drugs to grow

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Demand for biotechnology drugs in the US is set to grow by some 13 per cent per year, with …

Hungry bugs eat up VOC problems

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Bacteria could form the cornerstone of processes to reduce emissions of volatile organic co…

New encapsulated blowers get airing

Added: 15 Jan 2000

A range of encapsulated blowers, being launched on stand 325 by James Howden, has been desi…

PRIMA initiative for better IT value

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Formed in 1992 by a group of European process sector companies, the ProcessIndustry Managem…

A clean set of eels for Amersham Nycomed plant

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Radioactive tritium in the sediments of the River Taff does not constitute a health threat …

PEOPLE - SUPPLIERS

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Bogle's move to take on Moore

Fileder offers filters for factories

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Stand M45 holds the UK's largest independent supplier of liquid process filtration equipmen…

A winning combination for pharmaceuticals processors

Added: 15 Jan 2000

Used by leading pharmaceuticals manufacturers around the world, the combined filter/dryer u…