High profit margins in providing services are obliging market participants into shifting their focus from municipal to industrial sector while supplying water treatment chemicals. This move significantly boosts the demand for these chemicals.

Parker Instrumentation has developed a novel rising-plug style valve for process instrumentation applications. It provides a reliable valve for applications where contaminated media could otherwise lead to premature valve failure.

Pilz launched its safe, open bus system Safetybus p in 1999. Now it is launching Safetynet p, a combined system for safety-related control, standard machine or process control, and motion control applications; it has real-time capability and is totally flexible and open. It provides flexible topologies and structures.

Avecia Biologics is a contract manufacturing organisation for active pharmaceutical ingredients produced by a process of fermentation, separation and purification

Adkins Energy, Badger State Ethanol and East Kansas Agri-Energy are the latest group of USA-based ethanol producers to invest in modern process control technology in order to improve their productivity and efficiency.

In accordance with CENELEC policy, August 2004 marked the deadline for the withdrawal of any national standards that conflict with IEC 61508, the international standard focusing on safety-related systems that incorporate electrical, electronic and/or programmable electronic (E/E/PE) instruments and devices. The question is: who does it affect and what are their responsibilities?

Circuit Design Inc has developed and begun delivery of the CDP-TX-02E-R transmitter and CDP-RX-02E-R receiver as the successor models to the CDP-02 series industrial use radio modules. The new products comply with the RoHS Directive that comes into force in Europe from 1st July 2006.

Multi-Seals Inc is offering an innovative alternative to liquid epoxy for high-volume, high-quality epoxy sealing applications.

By ensuring valves and actuators are only operated by authorised individuals, the Anti-Tamper Lock (ATL) from Smith Flow Control secures companies’ assets by reducing the risk of human error or deliberate tampering.

The metal finishing industry, in particular, is now being forced to become more efficient in water use in order to stay in business. Facilities that discharge pollutants have to decide whether to concentrate wastes and risk exceeding concentration limits, or treat the waste before discharge.

A month before the recent 20th winter Olympics started in Turin, Italy, GE unveiled a themed monument dedicated to the residents and visitors to the city for the games.

Derrill Holmes looks at the mechanical characteristics of the zirconium-to-titanium fusion weld.

A survey of plastics processing energy consumption in Europe reports that 60 per cent of responding companies fear for the future of the European plastics processing industry unless significant short-term action is taken on energy issues and costs.

ECKA Granules has established a US-based production facilities in Orangeburg, South Carolina, for the production of non-ferrous metal powder and particulates as well as speciality products for powder metallurgical and other technical applications.

Having spent money and resources in support of Pollution Prevention and Control (PPC) Permit applications, and having waited anxiously for determination of permits; many operators throughout all walks of industry and manufacturing are now breathing a sigh of relief that the PPC nightmare is coming to a close.

Aspectrics, a leading supplier of encoded photometric infrared (EP-IR) spectroscopy analysers has received a fifth US patent for its EP-IR disc technology and associated optics.

Previous studies in cancer causation have often concluded that exposure to carcinogenic or endocrine-disrupting chemicals, for example, organochlorines (OC) – found in pesticides and plastics – occurs at concentrations that are too low to be considered a major factor in cancerous disease.

Five major global chemical companies are among the first customers for new encoded photometric infrared (EP-IR) spectroscopy analysers that have just been launched in the USA.

European chlorine production in 2005 continued strong and steady for the second consecutive year.

Huntsman Polyurethanes has launched two new MDI variants in its extensive Suprasec range.