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.

China wants to accelerate the concentration of its petrochemical industry into five industrial clusters. The ‘big five’ are listed in the People's Republic's just published new five-year plan. The China Market Insider Report presents them in detail.

Under the terms of the agreement, MSD will purchase energy from the Armadillo Solar Center in Navarro County, Texas, USA. With this deal, Ørsted is expanding its customer base in the pharmaceutical industry. The Center is expected to be operational by 2023.

The latest recruitment news from the process industry starts with a bang. In addition, there are some rotational changes and strategic new hires to report. PROCESS worldwide summarises the news from the executive floors for you.

Ima Group gave life to a wide number of technologies and platforms dedicated to production monitoring and efficiency increase. In particular, it is worth mentioning about A4gate which is specifically created to tackle cyber-attacks, Ima Sentinel for remote production monitoring 24/7 and Ima Control Room for more sophisticated services.

Despite challenges brought about by the pandemic, products featuring technology from Profibus & Profinet International (PI) have been very well accepted by users. With the total number of PI products so far installed at plants has exceeded 104 million, an impressive threshold has been crossed.

The Sesotec metal separator Rapid Pro-Sense with the control unit Genius+ offers extremely high sensitivity due to its innovative HRF (High Resolution Frequency) technology. The detection signal is sent and evaluated at a special frequency.

With an aim to expand its production facility in Singapore via the Singapore Expansion Project, Neste has chosen Emerson to incorporate its automation systems and software in order to ensure efficient production, thus bringing the expanded refinery on-line by 2023.

Maire Tecnimont has bagged the EPCC contract from the Indian Oil Corporation Ltd (IOCL) for a new Para-Xylene plant along with its associated offsites facilities in Odisha, India. Once complete, the new facility is expected to have a capacity of 800,000 tons per year.

PROCESS Worldwide brings to you the most recent plant engineering projects from all over the world. Right from Front-End Engineering Design (Feed) contracts to plant revamp projects, find out all the projects making headlines here.

Honeywell UOP’s C3 Oleflex technology has been selected by Anchorage Investments to produce 750,000 metric tons per year of polymer-grade propylene for its new Anchor Benitoite petrochemicals complex in Suez, Egypt.

With an aim to meet the growing demands of monochloroacetic acid (MCA) in India's agricultural, personal care and pharmaceutical markets, Nouryon and Atul have collaborated to establish a new production plant in Gujarat, India.

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 Brawn Mixer line of B Series liquid mixing systems brings improved process yield and optimal cycle times to applications including: blending, solids suspension, gas dispersion, heat transfer, and low- or high-viscosity liquid mixing.

Pepperl+Fuchs has now reinforced its position as a supplier of Ex-equipment with the introduction of the SR series. The new stainless steel enclosure series joins the GR series, made of glass fiber-reinforced plastic, in the range of the process automation specialist.

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.

Over the last two decades, China has changed its regulatory frameworks in order to reduce drug approval timelines and to make the Chinese market more attractive for international drug manufacturers.

Under the terms of the agreement, MSD will purchase energy from the Armadillo Solar Center in Navarro County, Texas, USA. With this deal, Ørsted is expanding its customer base in the pharmaceutical industry. The Center is expected to be operational by 2023.

As the world struggles to fight the pandemic, the demand and supply gaps for Covid-19 vaccines is widening. In this background, Global Data reveals that Chinese vaccines remain crucial for developing nations.

Lonza has plans to invest 219 million dollars to construct a new manufacturing complex in Visp, Switzerland. The 2,000 sq m project will comprise a customer dedicated manufacturing line for antibody-drug conjugate payload molecules and will also prove useful for accommodating future small molecule expansions.

The Maag Group has supplied its latest state of the art x6 class melt pump technology for the first fully integrated sugar-to-PLA (polylactic acid) plant in China. The plant is based on a Sulzer technology and key equipment for converting lactide into PLA.

The Rotor and Drive Joint Access from Seepex for large standard pumps saves up to 80 % in maintenance time.

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.