The mega-merger between Sinochem and Chemchina is now official, the move will create the largest chemical company in the world. The new chemical giant in China will have estimated sales of more than 144 billion dollars, thus, making it larger than BASF and Dow combined.

BASF’s new acetylene plant can produce 90,000 ton of the versatile chemical annually. A byproduct of the process is what is known as acetylene coke. To prevent the coke from clogging the combustion chamber, it is removed by so-called poking robots, specially developed in-house by BASF.

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Specialty Chemical company Evonik expands its cooperation with IBM in the field of digitization and becomes a member of the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab to accelerate innovation with AI. The two companies extend their strategic partnership ahead of schedule until 2025.

Dechema’s latest position paper ‘Process Simulation – Fit for the future?’ by the Processnet working committee Process Simulation, Process Synthesis and Knowledge Processing focuses on the relevance of today’s tools to meet the demands of the digitalized chemical, biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries.

BASF’s new acetylene plant can produce 90,000 ton of the versatile chemical annually. A byproduct of the process is what is known as acetylene coke. To prevent the coke from clogging the combustion chamber, it is removed by so-called poking robots, specially developed in-house by BASF.

Specialty Chemical company Evonik expands its cooperation with IBM in the field of digitization and becomes a member of the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab to accelerate innovation with AI. The two companies extend their strategic partnership ahead of schedule until 2025.

Designed for demanding hazardous industrial environments, the rugged S88 Specific Ion Sensors and the intelligent X80 Universal Transmitter Analyzer from Electro-Chemical Devices (ECD) are available as Atex and Iecex or FM approved. The solutions provide safe, precise measurement of water-based chemicals for effective process use and effluent treatment prior to re-use or discharge in order to meet water quality standards and regulations.

Thyssenkrupp has signed a contract with CF Industries to deliver the mega plant in order to produce green ammonia at the Donaldsonville manufacturing complex in Louisiana, USA. The project is expected to decarbonize the world’s largest ammonia production plant.

Dupont has plans to construct a new adhesives manufacturing facility in Zhangjiagang, Jiangsu Province in East China. The new project is expected to cater to regional customers in the transportation industry.

Under the terms of the contract, KBR will provide engineering, advisory and evaluation services for the National Renewable Energy Laboratory’s (NREL) various biofuel and biorefinery projects, thus advancing NREL’s renewable energy research and development.

Sinochem Hongrun has licensed W. R. Grace & Co’s Unipol PP process technology along with the Unipol Unippac process control software for its facility in Shandong, China. The new plant will include a reactor line capable of producing 450 KTA of polypropylene.

According to market research, the market volume for "green" chemistry is due to almost double by 2025. Our white paper sets out how contract manufacturers are reacting to the trend for sustainability.

This paper will show by means of the example of a pusher centrifuge how to achieve optimum product quality, maximum energy efficiency and operation with a minimum of downtime and it describes the most important innovations of the past decade.

This paper looks at how the earlier PTA production method involving a multi-stage process with pressure and atmospheric centrifuges and a re-slurry tank can be replaced with one stand-alone device – the rotary pressure filter (RPF).

Do you want to operate radiometric measurements with minimal uncertainties to allow optimum performance of your process? Minimize error sources, so that difficult level, density & bulk flow measurement tasks achieve highest accuracy & reproducibility

The Namur Open Architecture (NOA) aims to make production and plant data easily and securely usable for plant and equipment monitoring and optimization.

Evonik introduces its new Peek-based filament in industrial grade quality for FFF/FDM 3D printing.

Major cleaning for an oversized “immersion heater”: This is how heat exchanger cleaning ensures efficiency — When there is no more flow in the tube, it is time for maintenance. But what if apparatus cannot be bored out or mechanically cleaned? Chemical industrial cleaning can help to clear the pipe.

Electrostatic discharges create critical safety risks. This article provides examples in powder handling include pneumatic conveyors, big bag filling stations, and even silos where there is the danger of a conical pile discharge. Proper grounding techniques and the correct choice of big bags minimize the hazard.

The pharmaceutical industry is facing enormous challenges. In an exclusive video interview with PROCESS Worldwide, Fabriano Ferrini, Product Manager for Tablet Presses at Ima Active, shares the hurdles faced by suppliers of tablet presses in the pharma sector as well as informs us about the company’s Domina online event which will introduce a new configurable platform for tablet manufacturing.

GEA has supplied its new separator technology to Ukrainian pharmaceutical company Biopharma. The equipment will be installed at Biopharma’s new plant in Bila Tserkva, Ukraine and will help the firm to become one of the leaders offering high-tech plasma processors across the globe.

What can large pharmaceutical companies do to protect their OT networks from security threats? TX One Networks presents some first-hand insights.

Lonza has completed the divestment of two of its sites in Ploermel, France and Edinburgh, UK to Next Pharma. With this move, Next Pharma will be adding the two new centers to its existing manufacturing network.

Netzsch Pumps & Systems recently developed a multi-screw pump for hygienic applications and expanded its previous hygienic pump portfolio with the new model series: Notos 2NSH. The two-spindle positive displacement pumps are all-metal pumps that pump especially demanding and sensitive media.

Pumps are the workhorses of every process plant, not to mention plenty of auxiliary equipment and even portable test gear too. This run-round of recent developments takes in centrifugals, vacuum pumps, positive-displacement pumps and gas sampling units.

Increasing demand for applications such as conveying, assembly line cleaning, drying, evacuation, suction, and others related to the electronics and semiconductor industry are offering beneficial opportunities for vacuum pump manufacturers around the world.

The global supplier of process equipment, SPX Flow, has added a new model of tank outlet valve to its APV D4 series mix proof valves.