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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 …

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…