Specialty chemicals company Lanxess has set itself an ambitious climate protection target. By 2040, the group intends to become climate neutral and eliminate its greenhouse gas emissions from around 3.2 million metric tons of CO2e today.

Under a long-term agreement with Kazakhstan Petrochemical Industries, Air Liquide Munay Tech Gases will build, own and operate a new nitrogen facility in Karabatan, Kazakhstan. The new facility is expected to supply upto 8,000 Nm3/h nitrogen to KPI’s new 500,000 tonne per year polypropylene plant.

Graco has launched the Sealed 4-Ball Plus Lower. Competitive analysis shows that the new high-capacity circulation pump lower has the industry’s highest fluid delivery at the lowest cycle rates.

OPEC’s World Oil Outlook (WOO) 2019 offers an insight into the medium and long-term projections as well as an assessment of the oil and energy industry across the globe.

The SC-B X-ray scanner by Wipotec is the ideal entry point for quality X-ray inspection of incoming raw material. Foreign body detection at the beginning of the production process leads to optimisation of the line efficiency by reducing product losses and downtimes.

Fluidics can do so much more — certainly for companies who are happy to think outside of the box — In almost every process, liquid or gaseous media must be measured, controlled and regulated. But are we using the full potential offered by valves, flowmeters and their like? Even after 70 years, the fluidics specialists from Bürkert are nowhere near the end of what they can do.

The global FT wax market is set to grow from its current market value of more than 750 million dollars to over 1.2 billion dollars by 2025; according to a new research report by Global Market Insights.

Contract manufacturers are working with challenging customers and require highly sophisticated equipment. CordenPharma is now going the extra mile. With the construction of a new, fully-contained development lab for high potency compounds, covering all manufacturing process steps for the development and production of tablets, the company is able to achieve unequaled OEL (Operator Exposure Limit) levels of less than 1 µg/m³. This is the first step towards zero contamination.

The collaboration between Dow and Evonik aims to bring the unique technology to market maturity. For this purpose, the firms have also planned to build a pilot plant in Hanau, Germany which is expected to be constructed by 2020.

The separation of two immiscible liquids contained in the same tank or vessel is a fundamental aspect of many production processes. Optimising the performance of these applications can have a significant effect on final product quality. To achieve this, plant managers need to implement devices that can accurately and reliably measure the interface level between the two liquids.