BASF recently held a groundbreaking ceremony online for its new cathode active materials production plant in Schwarzheide, Germany. The new unit will make use of cutting-edge process technology to produce battery materials for electric vehicles.

India's chemical industry is one of the fastest growing in the world and contributes 3.4 % to the global chemical industry. A dedicated focus on developing sustainable specialty chemicals and investing significantly in R&D and technology is trending in this burgeoning sector.

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.

How a desalination plant uses the most sustainable and available energy source to generate fresh drinking water — Seawater desalination has a large ecological footprint, as the processes used to generate fresh water from brine or seawater are energy intensive an often rely on fossil fuels. Luckily, the arid regions that rely on desalination the most have one resource in abundance: sunlight. Can solar power bring green drinking water to the Middle East?

How a desalination plant uses the most sustainable and available energy source to generate fresh drinking water — Seawater desalination has a large ecological footprint, as the processes used to generate fresh water from brine or seawater are energy intensive an often rely on fossil fuels. Luckily, the arid regions that rely on desalination the most have one resource in abundance: sunlight. Can solar power bring green drinking water to the Middle East?

Under a strategic agreement signed between Wood and Cognite, both the companies will create artificial intelligence solutions in order to provide a more connected and data-driven environment to industries which will prove profitable for their operations.

Sirio has established the first smart factory in the nutraceuticals industry in Ma’anshan, China. The next-gen facility will make use of automation, Internet of Things and artificial intelligence to ensure a high level of process control as well as superior quality standards for producing nutraceuticals.

Emerson has introduced the Fisher V280 full-bore trunnion-mounted ball control valve for severe and specialty pressure, flow and process control applications. The valve provides excellent dynamic process control by utilising a robust drive train that is designed to guide the shaft and properly absorb energy.

Technip FMC has been awarded an EPC contract by Assiut National Oil Processing Company for the construction of a new hydrocracking complex for the Assiut refinery in Egypt. The project is expected to support the national government’s Energy Transition strategy as well as reduce environmental emissions in the region.

BASF’s new plant has been developed in Pontecchio Marconi, Italy and will offer its Nor technology platform to the expanding agriculture industry. The platform comprises of a range of light and thermal stabilisers which prove beneficial for plasticulture applications.

Under a joint venture agreement signed between Thermo Fisher Scientific and Innoforce, both the companies will work together to establish a biologics and steriles drug development and manufacturing facility in Hangzhou, China.

Perstorp has plans to reduce its carbon dioxide emissions by around 500,000 tonnes by producing sustainable methanol. With ‘Project Air’, the company aims to build a first-of-a-kind, large-scale, commercial Carbon Capture, and Utilisation (CCU) unit to produce the green methanol.

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

People have witnessed an increase in fake news during Covid-19. To dissect what is real and fake, the PQE Group has set up a task force which aims to provide scientifically correct information in a clear and simple manner.

Emerson’s Sergio Diaz, product marketing manager for safety systems, and Alexandre Peixoto, product marketing manager for cybersecurity, explain what factors need to be considered in creating defendable safety systems.

With fast data communication and high bandwidths, Industrial Ethernet paves the way to Industry 4.0 in the chemical, oil/gas and petrochemical industries. But what about in zone 0, 1 or 2? From A for antenna to W for WLAN: typical problems that can arise with Ethernet installations in hazardous areas and the right solution.

Several of Dow’s US sites safely shut down operations before the impact of the hurricane. However, manufacturing operations at the firm’s sites in Freeport, Texas and Louisiana remained active. Minor damages were reported at the company’s Sabine and Beaumont sites.

CPhI’s new report predicts a positive outlook for the pharma manufacturing supply chain in 2021 and highlights that the most immediate trend will be to witness some degree of ‘vaccine nationalism’ in the background of the initial stage of global Covid-19 vaccines roll-out before scale-up is achieved.

BASF’s new plant has been developed in Pontecchio Marconi, Italy and will offer its Nor technology platform to the expanding agriculture industry. The platform comprises of a range of light and thermal stabilisers which prove beneficial for plasticulture applications.

Salt tablets are used in various home care or chemical applications, like washing machines in households, hotels and restaurants or laundries. It can also be used for softening of drinking water, disinfecting swimming pools and also as nutritional supplements for animal nutrition.

Under a joint venture agreement signed between Thermo Fisher Scientific and Innoforce, both the companies will work together to establish a biologics and steriles drug development and manufacturing facility in Hangzhou, China.

With the new oil-free DSS scroll vacuum pump, Atlas Copco is expanding its range of dry industrial pumps. The robust, low-wear pump is particularly suitable for vacuum generation in the rough vacuum range.

Everyone focuses first and foremost on purchase price when estimating pump life-cycle costs, but there are other optimisable costs that will help moderate pump-related expenses.

With the Hi Pace 2800 IT, Pfeiffer Vacuum presents a turbopump especially dedicated for ion implantation applications. The sophisticated rotor design of the turbopump results in an optimised pumping speed for light gases. This ensures very good process adaption for ion implantation processes, were hydrogen is the most accumulating gas.

Netzsch’s Nemo progressing cavity pumps in the FSIP design can be used in nearly any area of industry as it is capable of pumping and precisely dosing a great variety of different substances.