The Port of Antwerp is partnering with six firms to construct a Power-to-Methanol demonstration plant in Belgium. This project is vital for the country’s transition to alternative sources of energy and is expected to have an annual production capacity of 8,000 tonnes of sustainable methanol.

Eight workers lost their lives and around 40-45 workers were seriously injured after a boiler exploded at a chemical factory in Gujarat, India. A massive fire also broke out post the blast.

The Humber Zero project is in line with the UK Government’s 2050 Net Zero objectives and has the potential to decarbonise 30 mt of CO2 emissions in the country. The decarbonisation project is an important one for UK’s zero-carbon economy.

Shell and tube heat exchangers find their applications in a variety of sectors. However, one of the major constraints that stands in the way of optimizing its thermal design is the pressure drop. Here’s an overview of why the managing the pressure drop is an essential aspect of its design and what are the considerations that need to be met.

Working with flexible systems that evolve with the changing needs in a lab is indispensable. With the Scivario twin, Eppendorf, a key life science company, introduces its latest bioreactor control system for small- and bench-scale applications.

Despite the Covid-19 epidemic, Marchesini Group has never stopped. The company’s activities are part of the packaging supply chain included by the Italian Government as among the essential activities that have remained open.

Emerson has recently announced its new Remote Assistance service capability to help plant operators immediately respond to industrial valve issues by using augmented reality (AR) technology. The AR technology uses a robust, secure channel certified as ISO 27001-compliant.

Trinami X, a wholly-owned subsidiary of BASF, recently announced the launch of a mobile near infrared (NIR) spectroscopy solution. Spectroscopy is a well-proven analysis method that the company now makes affordable and accessible beyond factory and laboratory applications.

Under the terms of the agreement, Lunan together with Celanese and Swchem will establish an industrial scale pilot plant in Teng Zhou, China to test industrial scale production of acrylic acid using acetic acid as the core raw material.

BASF’s 10 billion dollar project has commenced piling work for the development of the first plants which are expected to produce engineering plastics and thermoplastic polyurethane for the domestic and Asian market.

Under the terms of the contract, BP will license its latest generation of PTA technology to Dongying United Petrochemical for the production of purified terephthalic acid in China. The technology will be used at Weilian Chemical’s new plant.

The Port of Antwerp is partnering with six firms to construct a Power-to-Methanol demonstration plant in Belgium. This project is vital for the country’s transition to alternative sources of energy and is expected to have an annual production capacity of 8,000 tonnes of sustainable methanol.

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

RE100 companies have blazed a trail, but it's the next wave of corporates who need to start their journey if we are to reverse climate change. What are the opportunities? What are the barriers and how can they be overcome? What options are available?

In the fight against coronavirus, Tata Chemicals under its subsidiary Rallis India has converted its chemical units at Akola and Ankleshwar to produce and supply 75,300 litres of hand sanitisers across different states in India.

Post the successful installation of a pilot fever-scanning cabin at the Kallo facility in Belgium, Borealis has plans to install the cabins at a number of other production units to protect its workers during the global pandemic of Covid-19.

The following statements focus on the question if the use of organic heat transfer fluids creates the necessity to classify an explosion zone around the heat transfer system. They are based on a long experience in designing, manufacturing and doing maintenance, repair and technical service work on a huge variety of different HTF systems as well as on our knowledge of explosion protection regulations.

Getinge recently launched the DPTE Transfer Trolley – a smart, mobile transfer platform for use with all standard DPTE Beta solutions for moving materials into and out of a confined zone without breaking containment or sterility. Its ergonomic, power-assisted design enables easy handling of heavy and fragile loads within confined spaces, while its smart functions help speed-up manual aseptic zone processes and increase production uptime.

Pierre-Alain Ruffieux will be joining Lonza from November 1, 2020. Currently, he is the Head of Global Pharma Technical Operations at Roche. Until Pierre-Alain joins the firm, Albert Baehny, Chairman of the Board will be holding the CEO position for a temporary period.

Under a strategic partnership, Lonza and Sanquin will work together for the commercialisation of a range of specialised reagents for pyrogen testing of parenteral pharmaceuticals and medical devices using the Monocyte Activation Test.

Compact, extremely powerful and also cost-effective: Ika-Werke’s XPP mixing and dispersing system has that little bit extra for your process technology. With its ability to homogeneously feed large quantities of powdery solids and liquid additives into a liquid feedstock, it is ideally suited to carry out all the basic operations of mixing and dispersing technology.

Coperion is expanding its proven ZSK extruder series with a new extruder size in pharmaceutical design: As a result, the company now offers the ZSK 26 twin screw extruder that fulfills all of the pharmaceutical industry’s guidelines and covers throughputs of 5-20 kg/h, depending on the application and materials to be processed.

Wilden has introduced Wilden Safe Guard – the industry’s first Internet of Things (IOT) enabled remote performance monitoring and alert system for air-operated double-diaphragm (AODD) pumps.

Hena 50 and 70 are single-stage, oil-sealed rotary vane pumps which were specially developed for the demanding requirements of mass spectrometer systems. The pumps are capable of achieving pumping speeds between 32 and 59 m³/h, depending on their size and speed of rotation.

Quattroflow has recently announced that it has extended its line of multiple- and single-use pumps with the introduction of the new QF2500 Quaternary Diaphragm Pump. With a maximum flow rate of 2,500 lph (660 gph), the new pump is ideally suited to meet the needs within demanding biopharma applications, including chromatography, TFF, virus filtration, sterile filtration, and depth filtration.

Edwards Vacuum has combined its years of comprehensive know-how and innovative technical expertise to develop a revolutionary range of new liquid ring pumps – the Elri series. Made for applications which are wet, humid as well as corrosive, this product offers a range of features and benefits that will distinguish itself from other competitor pumps in the market.