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Drying is the key to super absorbent polymers
Added: 15 Jan 2000
When Industrial Zeolite decided to set up a new super absorbent polymer drying facility at …

Boost for batch
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Batch Information Manager, launched by Honeywell, is claimed to `improve productivity, redu…

More expansion for BASF
Added: 15 Jan 2000
BASF is to expand its alkylalkanolamines capacity at Ludwigshafen from 25 000t/a to 40 000t/a by ea…

`Hot' back-up system for PLC controllers
Added: 15 Jan 2000
A new `slide-in' card from Rockwell Automation provides hot back-up for its Allen-Bradley P…

Calibrator mimics lab readings
Added: 15 Jan 2000
From Druck, the Model MCX multifunction calibrator is designed to measure and simulate both…

Grangemouth expansion and new licensing for BP
Added: 15 Jan 2000
The first phase of a project to lift BP Chemicals' Grangemouth plant into the first divisio…

Body Shop says waste tanks are now in good odour
Added: 15 Jan 2000
In Body Shop International's Colour Division, two tanks of waste by-product have been creat…

New range sends the right signals at ET 98
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Following its recent acquisition of the gas emissions and ambient air monitoring businesses…

Total pipeline control on offer
Added: 15 Jan 2000
In addition to its pipeline controls and instrumentation, Spirax Sarco is featuring some of…

Warrior lays down its arms
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Fisher-Rosemount is to make available a royalty-free licence under its Warrior US patent fo…

Smaller pumps from a big name
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Now part of an even bigger pump company (see page 10 again), ITT Jabsco is showing its new …

Pump sets on way to Erskine
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Sulzer (UK) Pumps of Leeds has delivered four large 2075kW pump sets to Kvarner H&G Offshore for us…

Gathering of the Larox clans
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Achema has long been recognised as the international meeting place for chemical and process…

Pump giants get bigger
Added: 15 Jan 2000
At a cost of around £510million ($815million) in cash, ITT Industries has agreed to acquire…

Internet still eluding process firms
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Five of Europe's manufacturing automation companies have joined forces to demonstrate how t…

Full metal jacket
Added: 15 Jan 2000
Lutz has launched what it claims is the first multi-stage, sealless, vertical and non-metal…

Computer model picks mixer
Added: 15 Jan 2000
A new range of mixing systems from Robbin and Myers' Pfaudler-Balfour subsidiary has been l…

Tapping into pressure lines
Added: 15 Jan 2000
The Monoflange primary isolation ball valve from Anderson Greenwood is designed for instrum…

Thermocouple monitor handles up to 16 channels of information
Added: 15 Jan 2000
The SR630 thermocouple monitor, available exclusively in the UK from Thurlby Thandar Instru…